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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on March 3, 2018 at 11:52pm

thats how it is and basically what i said in the first reply. those are called moveable shapes.  its how it works on a six string guitar because this DGB tuning is part of the six string tuning. they are called Bar chords. 

Am7 is wrong on that chord chart . second string should be open. 

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Permalink Reply by Snuffy Smith on March 4, 2018 at 8:56am

Fixing my chart now.

Timothy, can you run through my chart and check it to make sure everything sounds okay? Why do a number of these chords look the same? I don't understand. Look at A, A# and B.

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Permalink Reply by Snuffy Smith on March 4, 2018 at 4:11pm

LOL....OMG, ignore my comment about the A, A# and B. I just printed the sheet out and realized the fingerings were all on different frets. Hehehehehehehehe....sorry!

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on March 4, 2018 at 6:38pm

LOL Snuffy, glad you got it sorted.

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Permalink Reply by Snuffy Smith on March 4, 2018 at 4:48pm

I have a question. How come on my chart there is only one row of B chords, but two rows of the others?

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on March 4, 2018 at 7:41pm

Because there's no chord in between a B and a C, so the B#/Cb row doesn't exist. Same goes for E and F.  No such thing as an E#/Fb chord. 

See if you can add the G and G#/Ab chords to the top two rows of your chart because that's the starting point for this tuning - Open G, home base.  For good measure, consider adding the E, F and F# rows at the bottom and you've got a lot of ground covered here and a good reference.

I'm with what UJ said - concentrate on those key of G chords for the most part and leverage that open G tuning.

G Am Bm C D Em and F#dim if you're feeling frisky.

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Permalink Reply by Snuffy Smith on March 5, 2018 at 5:19am

Thanks.

I'm working on it. The chart I worked from didn't have those other chords. I went digging for them lastnight. Not sure if I found them all though. When I get my new DGB Chart finished, I need someone here to check it and let me know if anything is missing or wrong.

I'm working on a bunch of ditties now. And now that I've got this new reso, I am getting distracted by it, as I still have ideas I am working on with my GDG-tuned CBG. I have my first idea that I am fleshing out on my reso. It is such a workout though (tighter strings). I'm still a beginner, and I've gotten use to those looser/fatter strings, so these skinny/tight strings are killing me, LOL. Lastnight, was the first night I actually was playing rather well on them though. I've been going back and forth from thumb/finger picks to bare fingers, and I have to say I like bare fingers better. I just feel like I have way more control. But after lastnight, I can tell this DGB tuned reso is going to be a blast. It seems like there are alot more cooler sounding chords going on with this tuning (maybe it's just me).

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Permalink Reply by Jim Morris on March 5, 2018 at 5:49am

I'll be happy to look your chart when it's ready. I'm sure others will too and put whatever input they can.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy Hunter on March 5, 2018 at 12:03am

Snuffy, i tried to download a template for chord charts but i dont have MS office. and the table trick didnt work in open office.

i found a program called powertab that lets you set up a 3 string instrument in any tuning. then you can add chords to it but it wont print out only the chord shapes.. 

i think to help you out you will need just the basics of music.

between the nut and the 12th fret there are 12 notes. so if you played every note from open, thats playing the string unfretted, to the 12th fret is called chromatic. now a major scale only uses 8 of those possible 12. C is usually where you start because there are no sharp or flat notes. c scale is CDEFGABC . Where the two C notes are 1 octave apart (same note higher pitch). C to D is two frets ( a full tone) but the trick to music is that the change from E to F as well as B to C is only 1 fret. its like a pattern. 

drumming has patterns but the same pattern will sound different depending on which drum or cymbal you hit. guitar has these chord patterns , as you move up and down the neck the pattern stays the same but the sound changes . 

it can take a bit to get your head around at first but after 40 years it tends to stick..lol

its very hard to go into music theory here because i dont know how much you know or even how much you want to know. we can help if you want to learn a bit to help your playing . but you certainly can play just by remembering a few chord patterns for the songs you want to play.

ugh thats messy lol

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Permalink Reply by Snuffy Smith on March 5, 2018 at 5:27am

Yeah, I know just a tiny bit, Timothy. As a drummer, I never got into tuned percussion. I took drum lessons (snare and drumkit) from 2nd grade, off and on, til 10th grade, but I learned most of my chops listening to records. Music has always been something for me where I learned the basics, and then went off on my own. Jumping into tuned music on a CBG is easy and tough...easy because I only have 3 strings, and tough because it's not really a formal instrument where I can easily find a teacher to start me from scratch. So, I'm teaching myself and learning a little here, a little there, LOL.

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Permalink Reply by Snuffy Smith on March 5, 2018 at 3:16pm

Okay guys, here is the newly created sheet I've been working on. It's in .pdf form, so you should be able to download it (save it...whatever) and print it out. I need someone to go through it and double check the chords, as I wouldn't know if there are any mistakes. Something I noticed though – many chords are duplicates. This is because when it was a banjo chord there were two outer strings that had fingerings to change the look of the chord, but now with 3 strings I'm not sure if some of these chords are correct. Let me know...

DGB%20Tunig%20Chart.pdf

I am open for doing more tuning sheets, if anyone wants to help me. This is a good resource.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Dean on March 5, 2018 at 5:18pm

There's a few wrong, if I have time I'll go over them, but for the most part, you'll never use 80% of the chords on that sheet, probably never more than 12-15 to be honest. The problem with lopping off the 2 outer chords, is sometimes, one of those is what actually make up the chord, ex; your GM and GM7 being the same, some chords require 4 chords to be that chord, Gm is ok, but GM7 would be closer to this

It requires the G,A#,F and usually the D, but dropping the D you have it pretty close, but the D helps make up the initial G chord, so not sure how it will sound without trying it using at least 4 strings, then with only the 3 to see how close it will be.

Same with the E and E7, E is fine, the E7 is closer to this

again, you lose part of the E chord (B) but you have the E,G#,D which make up the E7

There's a few more with the same problem.

You chart needs to be condensed down to mostly usable and practical chords that actually get used for what most people play with common songs.

I'm going to create a condensed version, and also make a mirrored lefty version, I plan on using the same tuning on my reso.

I may send a rough copy to you to create in your program, your charts look good, also, I somehow deleted you on my friends list when I went to message you and my cat ran across my keyboard lol.

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