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Like I said, I much prefer that, most of the time. I will try to play in a key that never uses those low open chords for that reason, unless that's the effect I want. that is, if I am free from all other restraints to key. Sometimes for a certain chord i'll want to throw in a nice open low E, or something like that, so I'll choose a key so that that chord can do that. Or if I'm singing, that will be a big consideration in what key I choose, but even at that I'll try to find a key where I can sing, and not use open string chords, or I might even choose chord inversions I prefer less, in order to avoid playing those open chords. But yes, definitely they have more crisp and clear sustain with them, and your capo will have more than your fingers also. But those are not necessarily desirable things. I find you have much less control that way. |
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Good point. Playing a song where I have a mixture of open and barre chords can be a bit tricky, which was partly why I asked the question... my F (or A & B using the same shape up on 5th/7th fret which sound nice) tend to a lot quieter than playing E or regular A.
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Like I said, I play barres like the A on 5th, by fretting the low A with my thumb, and the high A and E with my index, and the other 3 as one would guess after that. I play those almost exclusively that way, except for times where I might wanna hammer on a A7, then I need to do the standard barre with index, and hammer on the rest. |