Your Top 5 Best Sounding Chords???

[TonyT]

As a relative newbie to the guitar playing world I am still learning chords. In doing so, I am finding some great sounding chords that I plan to incorporate in to future song writing efforts.

What are your favorite sounding chords? (I am hoping to find some hidden gems from you more experienced players)

My top 5 (to my ear) right now are …

1) Dsus2
2) Cadd9
3) Em9
4) Em
5) A

Honorable mention: Dm

 

[Herr Squid]

F#7 Add 11!

 

[jak3af3r]

In no particular order I tend to gravitate to

Amaj9/C# voiced low to high as C# A B E G#

Amaj9 voiced low to high as A E A B G#

C# half diminished as a substitution for A7 that forms a composite of A9

Am11 voiced low to high as A G C D

A9 voiced low to high as G B C# A which you can move the C# up a half step with your index finger for A9sus

And a bonus is A7b9b13 voiced low to high as A G C# F Bb

 

[Bogner]

For Me...My Go To's Are The Open Low E String And Any Power Chords On The Wound Strings And Once In A While An Unwound String Pops In There. For The Most Part, Unwound Strings Are Practically Dead To Me.

If I Want To Get Real Fancy I Will Pick Individual Notes On The Wound Strings.

If I Want To Get Really Fancy I Will Play Some Cmaj9, Cmin9, Csus2, Csus4, Cmaj7, Cmajor/add 9, and Cmin13th chords.

 

[watelessness]

i can tell you my worst: A. i can never get the correct finger pressure to intonate properly. weird

 

[Mentalo87]

For me its less about chords and more about chord progressions. Imho diminished chords are way too much neglected to get some nice tension and resolve it later on

 

[Bogner]

For me its less about chords and mor abour chord progressions. Imho diminished chords are way too much neglected to get some nice tension and resolve it later on

TWSS!