hardest chord you can PLAY

just a game i thought we could play, please make sure it is a chord you can play, on guitar :p not piano.

i have this
F sus2 b5 /B
E-X
B-8
G-10
D-13
A-10
E-7
it pretty much killed my hand the first time i tried it, the D# on the B string and the B on the low E have to be barred at an angled, its messed, i got it from a local winnipeger's video.

ha ha, i got it on my first try! prolly because my teacher made me chart, play and memorize around a 125 jazz chords. i hated it when he had me do it, now i love him

so could you contribute some?

Take a pic of that chord please. I'm mindf!cked.

Yeah, i tried, and there is just no chance i will be able to convince my fingers to make that shape.

I just always wind up muting the g and b strings with my pinky!

i should have made a video since i was free today. lol. all i can say is index finger goes on 7th of E stringfret middle goes on 10th of Astring pinky goes on 13 of D string ring finger goes on 10 of Gstring and then the index finger with a "crooked" barre on the 8 of b string

Got it. (:

i played that one,but it was very hard and did not found it usefull ha!

I didn't think I could do it but I did after half a minute of trying.
I've been trying out those 'crooked' barres once before, too. I think that comes in handy when you just don't have anymore fingers left.

you could probably get some unique voicings with it

whats the biggest stretch you guys can do? mine is with my index finger on the E on the B string (fret 5) and the pinky on the 13 on the high E string (F). That would be interesting to hear ^^

i could just play the chord. But try doing it in a quick jazzy chord progression ^^

HELP!!!!!!! I dont understand. How is this possible?

@admiral
i can do an augment 3nps triad on the 10th fret i havnt tried lower

@nullnaught
its complicated

sorry what do you mean by that?

uhh 9th fret then a major third higher to 13th fret then a major third higher to 17th, augmented triad... 3 notes on a string

Ah right, I get it now with the 3nps. Thats a good one. Gilbert has got a lot of wide spread string skipping in some of his songs.

im aware of that, like get out of my yard, its not very spread though

That chord is just evil. You should realy transcribe it dude... I mean, there's no point struggling to play that chord when you can play the exact same chord in a different position.

Two chords I used to have difficulty playing when I first learnt John McLaughlin's 12/8 track... these are the chords:


E - 2
A - X
D - 4
G - 0
B - 2
E - 0

E - 3
A - X
D - 4
G - 4
B - 2
E - 0

And it's played like....

E |-------------0---------------0-----------------0-----------------0--

B |-------2---------------2-----------------2-----------------2--------

G |----------0---------------0-----------------4-----------------4-----

D |----4---------------4-----------------4-----------------4-----------

A |--------------------------------------------------------------------

E |-2---------------2--------------0--3--------------0--3--------------



E |-----------------0--------------0--|

B |-----------2--------------2--------|

G |--------------0--------------0-----|

D |--------4--------------4-----------|

A |-----------------------------------|

E |--0--2--------------2--------------|  And Repeat!!

This is in 12/8 time signature if you didn't read above.

Those sounded kinda creepy lol

Maybe Im just not used to classical music

Hehe here is one I that came up for me one day.

C6 or Am7, its only hard when you look at it for the first time. Give it a try.

e - 3
B - 1
G - 2
D - 2
A - X (of open if you would like)
E - 3

Its a fun chord and can be great with some other sixth or seventh major chord progressions.

Yeah, you need you thumb to play it. I wuite often use my thumb to get some bass notes, i think it a great thing to do.
In Technical difficulties gilbert uses an evil diminished stretch, only minor thirds, but if played up to speed its quite hard to get them.

@Jazz
Right. Every time I start to think of a Mahavishnu Orchestra song that I think I can play, this happens! There's no such thing as an easy Mahavishnu song!