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Topic: Never Give All Your Heart – What is this chord??

Can anyone identify what the chord is after “I miss her presence everywhere”, “evenin’ frost”, and “others march until they die”.   You all know the one.  It fits so perfectly.   Makes me want to smoosh up my face in delight every time I hear it.  It sounds so unique and so complex!

It must be something like “E-sharp-minor-7th inverted-diminutive-with ¼ bend + get-your-buddy-to-lend-an-extra-finger-on-the-4th fret” kind of thing!

Curious the chord name and fret positions.  Thanks!

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Re: Never Give All Your Heart – What is this chord??

love that song - one of my favorites off of the new CD.  I know exactly what you are talking about but I have not sat down with my guitar to try and work out the song yet.

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3 Reply by ZeyerGTR (edited by ZeyerGTR 2015-04-26 17:31:30)

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Re: Never Give All Your Heart – What is this chord??

It's at 1:05.

To my ears (which have been known to be wrong, so ymmv):
Sounds like the jangly guitar is arpeggiating D# E D# B on top of a D# root twice, then it resolves to an E chord just before he sings "Never give all your heart..."  If that's accurate you could say it's basically a Bsus4 inversion - D# (the 3rd of B) in the root, then B (the root), then the E is the sus4.  The arpeggiated D# E on top kind of alternates between Bsus4 and B major.  You could also look at it like a D#b9 resolving to the E.  Not sure which is more accurate for the function of the chord here, but same notes (assuming I'm hearing them right).

I don't have headphones, and I'm plucking it out with an unamplified electric... excuse, excuse, excuse... anyways, that's what I hear.

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Re: Never Give All Your Heart – What is this chord??

The tab book says, it's a   Badd4/D# -chord .

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Re: Never Give All Your Heart – What is this chord??

Hey Mike, Zeyer and black, thank you for the replies!  SO nice to have resident experts on here.  :win

Appreciate the help.  Now just have to look up the configuration.

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Re: Never Give All Your Heart – What is this chord??

sally12333 wrote:

It must be something like “E-sharp-minor-7th inverted-diminutive-with ¼ bend + get-your-buddy-to-lend-an-extra-finger-on-the-4th fret” kind of thing!

I have laughed several times today thinking of this.  Thanks

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Re: Never Give All Your Heart – What is this chord??

sally12333 wrote:

Appreciate the help.  Now just have to look up the configuration.

There are lots of ways to finger the same chords, and it can be tricky to figure out which one sounds right and facilitates laying, but to me it sounds like the arpeggio is:

E: 12 (index)
B: 16 (pinky)
G:16 (ring)
D: x
A: x
E: x

I'm guessing it's multiple tracks with the low D# played separately, but you might be able to get your thumb on the 11th fret of the low E string.

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Re: Never Give All Your Heart – What is this chord??

Another way to get an idea how Joe plays it is to watch some of Natasha's videos. From this past Friday in Minneapolis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzY5crG … e=youtu.be

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Re: Never Give All Your Heart – What is this chord??

Would love to see that incarnation of the band play live!!!

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Re: Never Give All Your Heart – What is this chord??

Looking at Natasha's video, it seems that its simplified live to just the 1st fret of D string, a muted G, and open B and E strings?

This is before a quick Em then into the chorus riff. Love this song, and wow Joe, what a tone and solo on Spot...!

I just love watching Natasha's vids, in so many ways, also makes it a lot easier to figure out Joe's parts.

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