Chords For That Shoegaze Tone 

The RU-vid

what the fuck

now this guy can show off to his friends that RU-vid commented on his video

Kevin shields new CEO of RU-vid

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literally from midwest emo rock to math rock to shoegaze

@@Inflake Welcome to the Midwest emo club lol, didn’t expect to see you here but still very nice

@@themetalclimber haha hey! 💙

Mm hahaha hohoho

hehe, I try my best!

Literally listen to loveless, that beautiful drowning chord sound

@@callumalston5755 Way ahead of you bud. As soon as I saw this person do it here, it all clicked for me that this technique was how Shields got it done on the record. And I like how you put that!

Or just use a whammy pedal

g l i d e guitar

That might be how Curt Kirkwood gets that gorgeous music box sound on the Meat Puppets song "We're Here." I had been wondering how he did it, thank you

You got it! Having a lot of fun playing this style so will certainly make more and will crank up the fuzz

@@TrevorWongMusic yoo, maybe this would help but for inspiration try lovesliescrushing/astrobrite.. scott cortez is really great at making wall of noise

@@Sandy-xb7lg checking them out now! sounds awesome. I need more fuzz!!!!!

@@Sandy-xb7lg thx 4 this !!

Having a lot of fun making these and learning more so absolutely, thanks!

This is not a new genre... been around for quiet sometime...

@@slavasmrti3328 Oh trust me I know hahah I meant new genres as in "learn how to play new genres"

Yup, was thinking the same

i thought that's what he was playing. pretty sure? the strumming pattern seems to be the same too

what I was gonna say

Hey! Super awesome to hear that this stuff was a pleasant surprise! Have been a big fan of shoegaze for years and its a lot of fun to play with the Jazzmaster. Much love!

@@TrevorWongMusic Shoegaze is just a wonderful world that we all adore to get entangled inside and out with it as it's such a woozy and dreamy-washed-out genre of music that just takes you above and beyond! I'm so glad to hear you've been a fan of it for years!

i use the Am9 shape in everything

@Marc R.Fisher Never at the top of my list but I will get one some day

thank you!

happy to!

Do it. Best decision ive made.

Fave guitar of all time is my seafoam green jazzmaster

go get it.

Haha you got it!

Thanks! You got it!

you got it!

whats a gioiod japanese gaze band?

@@eall5630 Kinoko Teikoku, Yuragi, Tokyo Shoegazer

@@eall5630 Japan has literally a world of AWESOME Shoegaze bands. Tokyo Shoegazer, Yuragi, Kinoko Teikoku, Plastic Girl in Closet, Lemon's Chair, Pasteboard and Oeil are definitely worth checking But I can give you a good and easy start: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1fYrP4eIqDQ.html&ab_channel=KatCore

Thanks! That's actually intentional. You might notice this in some of my other videos, but I treat the two as two very separate sounds. For me, when I call for a Maj7sus2 harmony, I don't see that particular sound as interchangable as Gmaj9. I want the very specific nuance of having that chord without that 3rd from the root. As for the Gmaj9no5, it's another very specific thing that goes on a case by case basis, in that scenario, I don't want the 5th present in the harmony and indicating that it has no5 is intentional for the aesthetic I want there. Basically, it's about how I hear those sounds in context, and what I would or wouldn't want in any accompanying part.

Thanks for the reply, it’s interesting to understand the sound that you’re trying to convey. I suppose from a functional harmony standpoint the Gmaj9 stands as the 3rd is implied unless you’re using the G as a dominant, and the same for the 5th as 5ths don’t really suggest tonality anyway, but that’s maybe a dated interpretation anyway 😂🤷‍♀️

definitely going to try and incorporate it more into my sound so maybe we can make it a thing again

It is! Check out Bands like Flyying Colors, Jaguwar, Ovlov, even the latest Diiv record is pretty shoegazey

Thanks mark!

By who?

@@themagnanimous1246 LSD and the search for God.

@@keithripley3453 thank you!

@@themagnanimous1246 No problem!

it totally does ! i love that song :)

Kevin just shines a lot and his light was/is mesmeric.

I think it's the whammy bar being weak so every time he strums the thing bends forwards and changes the pitch.

Pigtronix Philosophers Tone, EHX Holy Grail, Line 6 DL4

Hahaha, interestingly there's a MBV's song called 'Loomer' that always gave me that "feeling" of liminal spaces/ backrooms.

Thanks! Bridge pick up on my guitar, some fuzz / creamy kind of distortion that actually comes from a setting on my compressor pedal, some holy grail reverb, and some lo-fi delay sounds from my line 6 DL4

@@TrevorWongMusic thank you so much dude! Love ur vids btw

Doubt.

In short, when he moved that shape on the lowest 3 strings, he didn't move up the bottom three, so not all six notes were moved up. If all six were, then it would be the up a whole step. Well I'm super well versed but I'll give it a try and see if someone calls me out. For one, anytime you see a "/" in a chord that means the note following is the lowest note in the chord but not the root note of the chord making it an inversion. The Am9 chord (honestly not sure what the no5 is about tho) is minor because the note on A string 3rd fret (guitar knowledge would be helpful here) is the minor third in the key of A, automatically making it a minor chord. The 9 comes from the open B string. The Gadd9/B has a root note of G but G isn't at all the lowest note in pitch in the chord, B is, explaining the "/B." I'm honestly not quite sure why it isn't a D chord of some kind, Because D is the second lowest note and all the other notes are in the key of D. That would make it a Dadd9add6/B chord or something (I doubt that exists).

Awesome, I'll try that out, thanks for the tip!

use your ear and experiment with what sounds good to you

Listened to a lot of MBV haha

A7sus4 doesn't have the B natural that EM11/A does from the looks of it.

The note about the B natural is true, but you also gotta look at the 'core' triad and the voicing. There's an A in the bass but the rest of the chord spells the E-11 more than it does the A7

@@nkozi Thanks for more of an explanation. I'm mostly a drummer, so chords aren't my specialty.

@@nkozi lolwat. It's a 60 second video and the chord is at 0:14. There were only four notes in the "extended" slash chord. There is no B in the chord. The two E strings were X out and the four notes were A E G D. An upper extension on a slashed chord on a guitar without context... With two strings not being played. Just sign of amateur-hour.

Feel free to use the chords, but I'd ask that you remix them / find a way to make them your own. Maybe change the order, play with the rhythm, etc!

@@TrevorWongMusic thanks!