Guitar chords v keyboard chords

[Gps]

While trying to attempt to do some guitar stuff, I had a look at the guitar chords and they confuse the hell out of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qj30Tx3V3s

and or

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/k/kurt ... ks_crd.htm

Bm7 Bm6 Bm A G Bm7

Bm7 to Bm6 to Bm

Do I understand this right, if I say, I can ignore the number when I try this on a keyboard?
Because the number points to the fret ?

So next question, can we do this in the piano roll, Bm7 to Bm6 to Bminor?

The more I study funk guitar rifs , the less optimistic I become, I can do this in lmms.

[slipstick]

No you can't ignore the number if you want it to sound anything like right. It's nothing to do with frets and everything to do with how many (different) notes you have to play.

A basic chord like Bm (or C or any other chord just named after the key) has only 3 (different) notes. So as you know the C chord is C E G. Bm (B minor) is B D F#. The 7 or 6 adds another new note to those. So Bm7 adds an A making it 4 notes B D F# and A. Bm6 is B D F# G#. There a loads of piano chord charts online that will show you how to play any chord you can think up or see in a guitar tab or sheet music.

The characteristic sound of that run of chords is the top note which falls from A to G# to F#. You hear that sort of run quite often (there's an almost identical example in Eleanor Rigby that goes Am7, Am6, Am).

In the piano roll it's dead easy. Just pick "m7", "m6"or "minor" in the chord list at far right then click on a B and it will fill in the 3 or 4 notes for you.

Always something new to learn eh?

Steve

[Gps]

Thank you, and yes, its fun to learn, but its hard sometimes too.

Don't know why those chords on guitars confused me so much, because I even understand that the 7 in Bm7 means add an A.

I was confusing for some reason, the 1 2 3 and so on in the piano roll with the number in a chord. oops.


Lol at that track. When you said that name I was who what, but when I found the vid, I instantly recognized it.

Interesting about that run.

Although I am not very confident I can do that funk rif in LMMS, I already learned allot these days, so the attempt was already worth it.

I noticed people doing strumming in a daw, and that function is under arpeggios in at least two DAW.

So my idea about this being somewhat related to still dre, was not that weird.
( still dre, there is a chord played but, but the 3 keys are hit in a row not at the same time )

1.56 right hand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy9ADw8NMwo

I wonder if I am to stupid to know when to quit.

Found out yesterday how to set the piano roll to 5/4.
For those wondering why that made me happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs

[slipstick]

And for the old '60s rockers there's always https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YymGJKhGgY also in 5/4 . One of my favourite bass lines, particularly the intro.

It used to be fun watching people try to work out why they were having trouble dancing to it.

Steve

[Gps]

Tracks like this and take 5, can annoy the hell out of me although I do like them.

The trouble starts when I try to count along.

With take 5 every time I try it, I go 1 2 3 and then I am lost

[musikbear]

Always something new to learn eh?

and i am sopping it up as a sponge :p
But i have a question
A guitar has 6 strings (even12..but nvm that)
So a Bm6 adds one note to the 3 note chord -eg 4 notes
(I knew that, we also as you pointed out have these as std-selectable notes in the select-box)
But
What about the 2 'leftover' strings?
We have 6 strings and the Xn chord adds 1 note so 2 are not used?!
I here think of the most simple type of guitar accompaniment, we could call it gospell or c&w guitar, strokes from top to bottom over the strings. To me it looks as all strings are 'hit', not just 4..
-yes i know absolutely zip about guitars 8)
But i have experimented, and after hours of painstaking messing about, i came up with this:
https://soundcloud.com/musikbear/countryguitar
It is awfully complicated to set up. A single bar takes ~ 40 mins, but I am pleased with it
I use all 6 strings

[brandystarbrite]

Always something new to learn eh?

But i have experimented, and after hours of painstaking messing about, i came up with this:
https://soundcloud.com/musikbear/countryguitar
It is awfully complicated to set up. A single bar takes ~ 40 mins, but I am pleased with it
I use all 6 strings

Wow! That sounds really good.

[slipstick]

A guitar has 6 strings (even12..but nvm that)
So a Bm6 adds one note to the 3 note chord -eg 4 notes
(I knew that, we also as you pointed out have these as std-selectable notes in the select-box)
But
What about the 2 'leftover' strings?
We have 6 strings and the Xn chord adds 1 note so 2 are not used?!

That's why I carefully said "4 different notes". Any of them can be "doubled". E.g. in C6 (C,E,G, A) you can play two Cs an octave or even two apart or two different Gs etc. It's most common to double up the root note (C in this case) but any of them can be doubled.That true for any of the 3 or 4 (different) note chords. E.g. the notes in the most common version of G7 on guitar are (from the lowest) G, B, D, next octave G, next octave B and F. But there are dozens of other possible ways to play the "same" chord. A typical guitar chord has notes spread across at least two octaves.

Fun isn't it?

Steve

[musikbear]

Any of them can be "doubled". E.g. in C6 (C,E,G, A) you can play two Cs an octave or even two apart or two different Gs etc. It's most common to double up the root note (C in this case) but any of them can be doubled.

ahh.. i did that already, doubling 1 and 3 in other octaves

But there are dozens of other possible ways to play the "same" chord.

Heh that also explain something i saw in a movie once, where two guitarist had a quarrel about how to play one chord. Btw a hilarious movie! A mockumentary about a non-existing hard-rock band 'Spinal-chord'
Recommended!

A typical guitar chord has notes spread across at least two octaves.

It actually make sense. The depth in a guitar then is the result of doubled low and high octave-notes. A bit like how to make a piano wider and more musty.
It also 'explain' the system with the 6 strings of different thickness, and how that works in respect to the finger-pos.
I suppose finger-play then is all about running through the 6 string chord in a pattern..

Fun isn't it?

yes! 8´)

Wow! That sounds really good. :o :D

Thanks :) Should i make a tut?

[D.Ipsum]

Should i make a tut?

That would be interesting.

What did you use for the guitar? Vibed?