CFCFAF
Jimmy
Page used this tuning for the open chords, and Nick Drake has used this
or a very similar tuning for its deep, droning bass notes. The low C is
four notes lower than your usual E, and the tuning itself forms an F chord.
Because the bottom string is so low, it sounds a bit out of whack if you
include it in barre chords like 424232. So it's often best left open. With
these chords, the 6th string is always optional.
Ano3 is an A powerchord
- barring across all the strings at the 4th fret will create an A
major chord. The low F-string note in the Ebadd9 chord is optional.
The Bm shape is a barre
chord, and playable at any fret; Bbm is the same shape, played open. Barre
chords in Open F don't tend to use the low C.
Cm is the same shape as
Bm, and the C is the second major barre shape. x13121 is B, I just fogot
about that one. Cno3 is a C powerchord and not exactly easy to play - but
232 on the high three strings is also a powerchord.
Dm7 could equally be called
F6th, but I didn't have enough D-chords! D and D7 are only different because
of the open low C.
Three different Fmaj7 chords,
either with or without extra notes.
BLUES
SCALE IN F
This is the 6-note blues
scale in the key of F, or the minor pentatonic scale with a flat 5th. The
notes are F, Ab, Bb, B, C and Eb, with C being the 'blue note'. The basic
pattern is simpler than standard tuning, and in the key of F all the strings
can be played open except for the A-string.
These
chord names with worked out using the Guitar
Chord Name Finder.
These
chord charts are freely distrobutable. If you use them on your site, then
please link back to me at www.daydreamnation.co.uk/expressway.
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the Full CFCFAF Chord chart with
all the chords on one page.
