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Music Appreciation

ProfessorGAC

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3. The Opening Chord!

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2026, 07:37 AM

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A chord that literally can't be played on guitar.
Requires 2 guitars & a bass to get in all the notes.
It's a 6 tone chord, but with some notes too close together to get on 6 strings.
Really clever stuff by those guys, and they were still really young at that time.

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