3-Note Dobro Chords
3-Note Dobro Chords
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(Open G)
(C6 steel)
(Drop E)
(G Minor)
(G add9)
(G High E)
(Open D)
(D6)
(Bb Minor)
(Hawaiian A)
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Chord name or notes:
e.g. names like: F#m7, G, C9, or lists of notes like: F# A C# E
In a list of notes you can mark "color" notes with an asterisk. For example, C E* G Bb* would represent a C7 chord with the E and Bb being color notes.
Available chord types:
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Bar Angles
Straight
The bar contacts all the strings at the same fret.
Half-Forw
The slanted bar contacts the high strings further from the nut with a slope of one half a fret per string.
Forward
The slanted bar contacts the high strings further from the nut with a slope of one fret per string.
Dogleg
The dogleg uses the end of a forward-slanted bar to contact the two high strings at the same fret.
Half-Back
The slanted bar contacts the high strings closer to the nut with a slope of one half a fret per string.
Backward
The slanted bar contacts the high strings closer to the nut with a slope of one fret per string.
Allow pulls
The left hand pulls the 1st or 2nd string sideways behind the bar, raising the pitch by one half-step. The diagram shows this as if the bar was bent.
Left-hand
All notes barred
No open strings.
1 open high string
Move the bar so it's only touching two of the strings being played, with a high string open.
1 open low string
Move the bar so it's only touching two of the strings being played, with a low string open.
2 open strings
Use the tip of the bar to touch only one of the strings being played.
All open Strings
Don't use the bar at all to make the chord.
Right-hand
Adjacent strings
Play the neighbor strings: 6,5,4 or 5,4,3 or 4,3,2 or 3,2,1.
Skip 1 string
Play strings 6,5,3 or 6,4,3 or 5,4,2 or 5,3,2 or 4,3,1 or 4,2,1.
Skip 2 strings
Play strings 6,5,2 or 6,4,2 or 6,3,2 or 5,4,1 or 5,3,1 or 5,2,1.
Skip 3 strings
Play strings 6,5,1 or 6.4.1 or 6,3,1 or 6,2,1.
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Chord "color notes" are 6, 7, 9, etc.
Chords w/o color notes OK
Normally "color" notes are required e.g. The 7 and 9 in a Dom. 9th chord.
Chords need ≥ 1 color note
Only one "color" note is required in each chord.
Chords need ≥ 2 color notes
All "color" notes are required in each chord.
Allow color notes low
Normally "color" notes are restricted to the high parts of the chord.
Notes too close together
Avoid "jangling"
This avoids chords wth notes 1/2 step or a whole step apart.
With other low instruments...
Avoid chord roots
Assume some other instrument (bass?) will be playing chord roots.
Close voicing has all notes within one octave...
Require close voicing
Require all notes to fit within an octave.
Require open voicing
Require the chord to span more than an octave.
Allow either
Whatever. . .
SlowFast
Strum Speed
How quickly the strings are strummed when playing a chord.
(debug)
Extra info that probably only Peter wants to see. . .
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• You can generate a whole sequence of positions for a whole sequence of dobro chords with the
3–Note Dobro Chord Sequences page.
• If you want to make chords with more notes in them, check out the
4, 5, & 6–Note Dobro Chords page.
• If you want to do similar things on a 5-string banjo, check out the
3, 4, & 5–Note Banjo Chords page.
• To report a problem, make a suggestion, or leave kudos about this website send me a note at psl@acm.org.
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