[The Bard Rocks]

No one has yet addressed how this works when playing with others. If they are playing chord instruments, they may get upset that you are not doing it "correctly", "correctly" being defined how it is done most commonly. If you are playing the relative minor and they aren't, then you have one note of the three out of sync with everyone else. Not good - but then no one may notice.

I play with fiddlers often. If there are just the two of us, it doesn't make an iota of difference. They play single notes (for the most part) and as long as your chord contains the note, you are good to go. If you had educated listeners, perhaps other guitarists, they might notice the difference and think, "Cool, what he's doing with it". Or they might think, "Oh no, he's doing it all wrong". In actuality, who's to say?

One thing I often do is skip occasional chords (transitional ones, ones you do not hold on to for any length of time) and play the single note(s) instead. No one has ever complained, perhaps never noticed, and it adds subtle interest.