chord chunting

chunting?
Ive never heard of that.

can you expound a bit?

Chunting? Is that what we used to call 'chonking' back in them dear, remembered distant days?

Chunting?? is that just picking 3 random notes in the scale and fretting them, then playing them??? That's my guess, I've never heard the term either.

Are you sure you don't mean chugging? Your description sounds to me like playing a simple power chord with palm muting. This is often called chugging and has a very powerful sound. This is used in Heavy Metal type guitar a lot.

If so, play a simple power chord like this:

5i 7r 7p X X X (in order from 6th string to 1st).

Place the side of your picking hand just forward of the bridge, slightly resting on the strings. Try using all downstokes. Start with a simple eighth note strum. It will take a little experimentation to find the exact position and pressure to apply to get the heavy sound. It also helps to use your bridge pickup.

Hope this is what you were asking about.

no it is chunting, it uses the bass notes [3] from say g7 and moving them around the fretboard bit like a bluesy/jazz style. i bought a tuition dvd from agw [rick payne] bristol uk, he makes it really work well , he plays riff then a bit of chord chunting then back to riff and so on. i was just looking for more of this style. rick payne i found on this gn site.

I've not heard of chunting. There's a word "chunter", which means to murmur or mumble, but that doesn't sound like what you're describing.

Ah, I've just done a search for "chunt" and that does not fit with what you're after, either. :shock:

"Chunting" goes by a lot of names. Most guitarists will call it "choking" and it does precisely as you say, although you're not necessarily limited to the bass strings. It is usually done with closed position chords (chords without open strings, such as (but not limited to) barre chords), though.

If you listen to the rhythm playing of Django and other gypsy jazz style guitarists, you'll hear them doing it almost all the time. It's a good genre to study to get the sound of this sort of playing in a very clean fashion.

Hope this helps.

Peace

Ah, now I understand - I do this all the time (like dhodge I learned it first from Django records) but I never knew a name for it. Just thought of it as "little bits of chords" or something I guess - & of course you can apreggiate them nicely too.

What we used to call "chonking" is that blues shuffle chording where you alternate the note in the bass, V/VI, so in E you'd alternate between B and C# against the low E, in A it'd be E and F#, and so on. Da-dum, Da-dum; Da-dum, Da-dum...

i have just heard back from acoustic guitar workshop they call it chunting but said it would be best described as chord [partial] runs g7 and c7. :? so there it is sorry for the bad descriptions guys, but there have been some interesting answers. i was after more of this chord runs which i could add my own riffs. smoke