I'd really appreciate that. Somehow I've never went too far into triad shapes beyond a few basic things, so I'd love to see those pages. But yeah, lots of barred chords are impossible for me, so I break those down as much as possible, but the biggest issue I tend to come across with chords here is the stretching involved.PeteeBee wrote:I would say a really easy thing to learn that blows up your knowledge and let's you sound really jazzy is learning all your triad shapes and the first and second inversions. This is the biggest thing that has changed how I play guitar. It also helps with my wrist pain because they aren't big stretches (for the most part) and don't require lots of pressure (like playing bar chords all day). I could even email or post the pages of the book that I studied if you want.
Yeah, I tend to do this with a lot of chords already if I'm not doing open position cowboy chords. It helps a lot, but still makes things iffy when stretches are involved.Chuckchuck wrote:If it's too difficult or too painful to reach, I play the essential, most colorful or distinguishing part of the chord. It usually involves 3 strings not 6.
Tried a few tunings today, and immediately remembered what I hated about playing back in my days of trying out loads of non standard tunings. I think the most I'm really willing to bother with are basic dropped tunings since it doesn't mess with my brain so much.
