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Old 01-25-2017, 09:58 AM
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Default What's this strange chord? RAdams live "To Be Without You"

From BBC6 Radio Music, Ryan Adams playing "To Be Without You"

Capo on the third fret. Standard tuning. Chords are D/Sus, Gsus, Cadd( shapes, with single noet strikes on the E and walkup and walk downs on the A string.

I know exactly what he's doing here except for chord he is playing at time 1:23, the then gets into the Cadd walkdown walkup.

It is not the Dsus2 shape -- that's too melodic. The chord he plays out is slightly dissonant.

I am completely stumped. Anybody have any ideas?

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Try (relative to the capo) 5-5-4-0-3-x. Pick you own name for it.
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Try (relative to the capo) 5-5-4-3-0-3-x. Pick you own name for it.
Is he playing a 7 string guitar?
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Is he playing a 12 string? I can hear a high F# against an open G which you wouldn't expect on a standard 6 string.

It's sort of like
Code:
 x 0 4 0 x x 	to

 x 0 2 0 x x	to

 x 2 0 0 x x
with the emphasis on the fourth string, but I wouldn't bet money on it.
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Is he playing a 7 string guitar?
Opps, typo. Thanks. Now corrected.
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It is a six string...and voila!

Here's a video of him playing it.

Yes, it is true, you can find ANYTHING on the internet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04qmnyk

It's a D/A shape up the fretboard.
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Opps, typo. Thanks. Now corrected.
I was about to say D add 4/A but then there were too many strings.
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Try (relative to the capo) 5-5-4-0-3-x. Pick you own name for it.
Yep, I think that's it.
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Is he playing a 12 string? I can hear a high F# against an open G which you wouldn't expect on a standard 6 string.

It's sort of like
Code:
 x 0 4 0 x x     to

 x 0 2 0 x x    to

 x 2 0 0 x x
with the emphasis on the fourth string, but I wouldn't bet money on it.
He does play a 12 string in that session, but not on that song. I've never seen that model in the landing page picture. What is it?
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