Moments of Permanence - April 18th, 2009

About April 18th, 2009

The ocean is a desert with its life underground and a perfect disguise above 08:37 am
So, it occurred to me, when it came up on my song shuffle, that Horse With No Name (America) has to be just about the easiest song in the world to play on guitar. So I googled some chording for it. I found this, and I'm glad I did, because it gives chords, but it also has an extended music-theory discussion of the chord that isn't E minor.

Horse With No Name only has two chords. I knew this. I didn't realise that the second chord is a crazy chord. (Not in fingering - for fingering, it's simple. It's just... crazy.) The guy on this site has dubbed it Dadd6add9, but:

If I really wanted to, I could call this an F#dim7 (add6). Or even F#m7 (no 5)(add 4)(add 6). But there is a lot to be said for simplicity when trying to write something out. As I mentioned earlier, people can (and do) argue about this sort of thing for ages.


The chord itself: Second fret, third and sixth strings, all other strings open, go.

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Current Music: Right Said Fred - Love For All Seasons
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