looking for voicings for this progression

steven_eire

the first 3 chords in the bridge of dinah, it also crops up in montagne sainte-genevieve.

Em / EmΔ / Em7

the cosimini book suggested voicings with lots of open strings but that doesn't sound nice to my ears when played a la pompe. i'm looking for some chunkier sounding chords anyone have a good way to voice this?

also if you play these chords as majors you have the start of strawberry fields forever

Stackabones

x7998x
x7988x
x7978x

or

xx545x
xx544x
xx543x

There are others.

That minor line cliche also shows up at the beginning of Stairway to Heaven (in a different position), and can also be used in My Funny Valentine, Blue Skies, one of the sections of Oye Como Va, or as a sub for any static minor chord over several measures.

MichaelHorowitz

That's a line cliche...I have dozens of Gypsy variations used by Django, Bireli, etc in the Gypsy Rhythm book:

Gypsy
Rhythm, Volume 1

DiDrive

I like this one.

I use sometime when play just with other gutarist (in waltz for example):

Em - Emmaj7 - Em7 - Em6
X754XX
X654XX
X554(5)X
X454(5)X

Here is the voice in the bass.

Jack

DiDrive wrote:

I like this one.

I use sometime when play just with other gutarist (in waltz for example):

from 1st to 6th
XX457X
XX456X
X5455X
X5454X

Here is the voice in the bass.

In case anyone else is confused by that tab, the 1st to 6th refers to the strings, not the note...it's the reverse of the usual tab...

best,
Jack.

DiDrive

Is it better now?

Avalon

I play an all-fourths tuned axe but maybe you can adopt the following chords to standard tuning (lower top voice of first three chords by one fret). I drop the E root in the bass and play:

3x244x

3x243x

3x242x

5456xx

The top voice does the chromatic descent, which I like, and the 6th string gets played, which I also like. Packed with crunchy goodness?

Bones

Em EmM7 Em7 Em6 Em7 A7

7x59xx

7x58xx

7x57xx

7x56xx

7x57xx

5x56xx

wim

My favorite:

[x7998x] Em

[x6757x] Eb o7

[x5545x] Em7

[x4545x] Em6

The line cliche is found in the bass notes, sounds great.

@Avalon I play in straight fourths too, I've never met anyone else in this style who does so - where are you based?

Avalon

@Wim Glenn I am in San Francisco. And you?