I have questions about picking chord formations. Well I'm not sure if it's the right name for it. It's when you fret a chord but only pick a couple strings from it.
Do the strings you pick have to form a chord? For example, could I do this?
Eb|-----3-----------------------
Bb|--0--0-----0-----------------
Gb|--0--0--0--0-----------------
Db|--------x--x-----------------
Ab|--------2--2-----------------
Eb|-----------3-----------------
Or do those notes form a chord. If so, what chord? And if they aren't chords. How do you know when to use them and which notes out of the chord? Like is there any theory behind it?
Hi OneWing',
Youre talking about Arpeggios (or Arps). Im not quite sure how that tab is an arp but basically, an arp is supposed to sound kinda like a harp. You hold each note of the chord and slowly pluck each one at a time in one sweeping motion (in such a way that each string is played individualy).
You may also be talking about Sweep Picking. Which is exactly like Arping but instead of letting the notes ring out, you mute 'em by releasing the fretting finger after you have plucked the note.
Hope that helped.
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The strings you pick don't have to form a chord. They could be single notes, intervals, or chords - what they are depends on the notes used.
Don't get confused between what's a chord and what's a fingering - you could be fingering a chord, but playing single notes or intervals.
Anyway, in what you tabbed, everything can be done using a G type fingering. You've got:
Gb-Bb = major 3rd interval
Gb-Bb-Gb = major 3rd interval (doubled notes don't count - chords have at least three different letter names)
Bb-Gb = minor 6th interval (same notes as the major third, but intervals are usually counted up from the lowest note)
Gb-Bb-Gb-Bb = major 3rd interval (again, doubled notes don't count)
So technically, none of these is a chord - although they all come from a chord fingering.
If you added the open 4th string to either of the last two, you'd have a Gb chord, with notes Gb-Bb-Db.
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just for fututre refference.
a chord has to have three notes.
chords can have many more notes.
you can play a chord but pick the notes you want. like arppeggios. or sweep picking. both similar.
two notes played together are called double stops.
when forming a chord you can play the scale notes which make up part of the chord.
ie: barre a chord then use your ring finger to play notes in the chord or around the chord.
Just to clarify - two notes played together are called intervals. They're only 'double stops' if they're on adjacent strings... a term that comes from violinists, originally (who can't play two notes on non-adjacent strings)
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