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Exploring Chord shapes.

Posted by White Raven on July 19, 2015 at 12:38pm in Performances, How to Play, Lessons, Concerts

I have enjoyed searching around the site and reading posts about Chord Shapes. Lots of good, clear advice and diagrams. But I have not been able to find the chord shape for Bm with 4 string open G tuning.

I have tuned GDgb and I am trying to learn a fairly simple song where the chords go E, Bm, A, E. 

Can anyone help me out? I have no musical theory or background to rely on. Help?

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  • Richey Kay July 20, 2015 at 1:40am

    If you have a smartphone or tablet there is a great free app called 'Smart Chord' which I use all the time. You can set up different instruments on it, including 4 string CBG in whatever tuning you wish. So now rather then spending 10 minutes working out how to play Bbdim7add9 or whatever, I just look it up on there.

    • Lazylefteye > Richey Kay July 20, 2015 at 12:16pm
      I wish that app was available for ipad.
      • Ron "Oily" Sprague > Lazylefteye July 26, 2015 at 7:50am
        Here's several I use on the iPad:

        ChordBank

        UkeBank

        And especially, ChordGenie Pro (it was worth spending the money for)

        You can set up different number of strings and different tunings, and just look 'em up like Richey does.

        Also, you can look here for hundreds of chords, in all keys, for GDGB tuning:

        http://gtdb.org/gdgb/chords
        • Lazylefteye > Ron "Oily" Sprague July 26, 2015 at 10:30am
          Just my luck, I went to the app store to get ChordGenie Pro and it's no longer available. I'll check out the others though. Thanks.
          I enquired with the developers as to whether they had any plans to port Smart Chord to IOS and they said they aren't going to.
    • White Raven > Richey Kay July 20, 2015 at 9:59am

      Thats amazing. I will have to check it out.

      Thanks Richey.

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    • White Raven July 19, 2015 at 1:49pm

      Turtlehead, this is awesome! now I can figure out a variety of songs as long I can find the chords. 

      I am thinking of taking Pat Curly's 4 string course as a next step. 

      I appreciate your help.

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