Chords for Beautiful Gospel Guitar Voicing

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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[Bbm] _ _ _ [F] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Hey guys, how's it going?
Welcome back.
[N] I have a really quick little lesson for you on a really, really nice major type gospel chord.
This is basically a major 9 voicing and it just sounds [G] really, really good.
It's a very rich, thick, full sound.
It's also really nice because there's a [Ab] couple of movable tones inside of the voicing.
Movable [N] tones, kind of inside of chords, that you can move around while still holding the
chord grip down really define a [G] lot of the kind of gospel type sounds for me.
So yeah, let's [Eb] get into the voicing and I'll break this down for you guys, show you how
I'm fingering it and then how you might use it in your own playing.
_ Alright guys, so let me show you the voicing first of all for this.
So I'm going to have pointer finger and we'll be in B flat for right now too.
So I'm going to have pointer finger at the 5th fret and that's going to be [Ab] barring from
the A string and then from the D, G, B and E.
Okay, then I'm going to have my ring finger on the 6th fret of the low E string.
Then pinky is going to be at 7 of the D, then middle is at 6 of the B and here's the sound we get.
[Dm] _ _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Okay, so just obviously [Gb] a really nice, very rich sound.
So again, that's a major 9 and the root for this is [Ab] right underneath the ring finger.
So here it's B [Bb] flat, _ _ _
[Ab] _ A flat, [Fm] _ _ _ D [Dm] flat _ _ _ _ and then back to B [Fm] flat.
Let's try it up to E [Gm] flat. _ _ _ _
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So [G] that's basically the chord.
Now the movable tones inside of it that really add kind of the cool factor to this and the
kind of [Fm] gospel sound for me [G] is we can basically take the pinky off on the D string and back
on and also on and off on the G at the 7th fret as well.
Basically two frets above where we're doing the bar [Bb] from.
So if we take it off, _ that's taking us down to the 6th of the scale.
_ [F] Back on is at the 7.
Okay, now [Cm] if we put it on at the [Bb] 7th fret of the G, _ that's adding the 3rd once again.
[G] Off is adding in the 2nd.
There's the 7th, _ _ [Dm] 6th.
_ _ Okay.
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] Down to A flat, _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ back up to B [Dm] flat. _ _
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[Bb] So just a great sound.
So you can obviously move [Fm] those around however you want.
You don't have to do exactly what I was doing, but [N] those tones can be taken off and put back
on and kind of, you know, you can try different things with hammer-ons and pull-offs.
However you want, whatever fits the groove of whatever song you might be playing.
Okay, something else that's really cool with this voicing [F] is that _ it works very well to
kind of take you outside of [Ab] the key you might be in.
[Bb] [Dm] So for instance, when I went to that [Fm] D flat, _ _ D flat is not in the key of B [G] flat major. _
[F] But because this voicing is so rich and has some really nice tones inside of it, it makes
that transition to a chord that's not even [Ab] necessarily in the key.
It makes it just a very [A] smooth transition and just [Bb] sounds really cool.
[F] _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ So it just works well.
One more idea, let's try B flat.
Take it out of key right away.
A [Ab] flat, _ out of key again.
[Bbm] G flat. _ _ _
_ Okay, now I'm going to go to B, out of [B] key again. _ _
[Dm] _ _ And then resolve it to B flat. _
So all those chords besides B flat were out [Fm] of the key, but as you could tell, because
this chord is so rich sounding, it made the transition very, [Am] very smooth and it just [E] worked well.
So if you want to use [Bb] this in your own playing, again, the root note is underneath the ring finger.
[Dm] So let that be your guide.
And then you can just try substituting this [Dbm] out for like the I chord [Am] and the IV chord,
[Ab] maybe the flat VII chord if you [Dm] wanted to.
A _ _ _ _ _ flat [F] VII chord isn't technically in the key either, but [Abm] you see it so frequently [Ab] that
sometimes I almost think of it as being in keys.
Just because again, it is such a frequent chord.
[Dm] _ _
_ So yeah, there's the voicing.
I hope you guys enjoy this sound.
You know, the sound isn't always going to work depending on what style [Ab] you're playing,
of course.
I mean, sometimes this chord is going to be a little too much going on for the certain
style you might be playing.
But a lot of times this is just a great, thick voicing to use and I just love the sound of it.
So yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed this lesson and I will see you