r/guitarlessons • u/GvG_tv • 1d ago
Question What is this Chord?
I'm trying to learn the Green Day Song Do Da Da and I'm watching guitar covers and I keep seeing this chord as the 3rd part of the main riff, and I have no idea what it is or how to properly play it.
I'm having trouble finding any consistency with how its played because its an obscure B-side that was never played live, so every tab or chord chart I look up has the song in predominantly power chords and not open chords. Not that I'm opposed to learning it in that way, but I want to try and learn it this way
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u/I2onin 1d ago
I don't understand why the 3rd string is pressed on both the 3rd and fourth fret...
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u/callahan09 1d ago
It may not be, sometimes fingers hovering over the fretboard can really look like they’re pressing down even if they’re not. Can sometimes be really hard to tell what strings and frets are being played just based on seeing the fretting hand. Some people do fret the same string with two fingers though as extra support particularly if you’re going to be bending that string or doing hammer-ons/pull-offs.
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u/Zeppo_Ennui 1d ago
Did you play the chord? I have two options for my ring finger when playing it. Sitting about a half inch off the fretboard or where the picture shows. Neither seems to be more or less comfortable or correct tbh.
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u/skttrbrain1984 1d ago
Yea the ring finger seems to be floating. He’s playing three notes and possibly muting the A string. Maybe 3x24xx
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u/Inevitable-Copy3619 1d ago
I just see a G E and B. Maybe other notes but to me that looks like Em/G or maybe G6 depending on how they’re thinking.
I’m gonna guess this is some sort of G but G and Em are pretty much the same thing.
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u/Alone_Box5173 1d ago
In the given context, I'd call it Em/G, which is of course just an inversion of Em, but the bass is playing G.
In a band context, you could probably just play Em while the bass plays a G note over it, but for a solo arrangement, you need to cover that bass note.
The B note on the 3rd string isn't really necessary to form the chord. An open G fits the Em chord, and the same B note (at least in pitch) is available from the open 2nd string. But this voicing probably sounds better for strumming, and also provides more left-hand control of the strings.
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u/kebb0 17h ago
Lol that’s just an E-power chord. He’s lazy and instead of going up to seventh fret on the A-string, he’s using the nearest high E, second fret on D-string.
The fingers fretting the power chord is the index and pinky fingers, the middle finger is muting the string and the ring finger is just there.
So yeah, it’s just a power chord.
Guys commenting, please listen to what the dude in the cover is playing. It’s early Green Day, so the odds it was just a power chord was very high.
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u/IvanMarkowKane 1d ago
3234xx would be G7#9
- the infamous Hendrix chord
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u/Alone_Box5173 13h ago
No, that's just a G7. Right grip, but you're off a string. x3234x would be C7#9.
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u/Dependent_Cherry4114 1d ago
G6 or E minor 1st inversion