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Yesterday at band practice, we were playing the song called The Weight by a band called The Band. I was using a PRS 513 and was playing electric guitar fills & some chords. The studio version of this song is in the key of A. As we were playing the song, I noticed that the C# note that is one of the 3 notes that comprise the A major chord sounded sharp to me (the B string). Needless to say, to the A chord is played rather often in this song. No other chords that I played sounded out of tune to me. I tried lowering the pitch a bit on the B string while we we playing the song but then other chords did not sound "right".
After the song ended, I tuned the B string and then played an A chord on the 2nd fret. I left my tuner on and then plucked the C# note on the B string and it was in fact slightly sharp. I then plucked an open B string and the tuner showed that the string was in tune. Then I took a very close look at how I was fingering the A chord thinking that perhaps for some reason I had started bending the B string when I played the A chord - nope - ruled that out.
Has anyone ever run into this problem? I have been playing guitar for years and never has this issue crop up before (or at least not enough to have it bother me). Maybe I am putting too much downward pressure on the strings when I finger the chord???
Comments appreciated.
After the song ended, I tuned the B string and then played an A chord on the 2nd fret. I left my tuner on and then plucked the C# note on the B string and it was in fact slightly sharp. I then plucked an open B string and the tuner showed that the string was in tune. Then I took a very close look at how I was fingering the A chord thinking that perhaps for some reason I had started bending the B string when I played the A chord - nope - ruled that out.
Has anyone ever run into this problem? I have been playing guitar for years and never has this issue crop up before (or at least not enough to have it bother me). Maybe I am putting too much downward pressure on the strings when I finger the chord???
Comments appreciated.