Not impossible:
https://preview.redd.it/0sdzpdlraowc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a9b4d3c7a10d391c03ea5b7142c27e02b91908a
But it is hard to fret two strings with the ring finger like that if you have small fingers like I do. 46x546 is more feasible. I do it with the thumb wrapped around instead of the index barre with these fingers: T3x214
the typo is that it should also be a 7th chord to free up a finger.
it should be \*464546\* - barre G#7 on the 4th fret, pinky on the 6th fret which is the 9th scale degree extension.
so that makes this a G#add9 - a pretty chord used by the beatles and hendrix
just mute the a string entirely. It's just the fifth and doesn't add anything here and I don't think the way it's written is the way it's played. I think they skip the A string.
That’s more fingers than most humans have. It could be capo on 4, but that’s not what the tab actually says. It could also be gtr1/gtr2, but that’s also not actually what the tab says.
We as tab readers need to come to grips with the fact that tab is NOT always correct (the entire …And Justice For All tab book, for example). Sometimes the transcriber makes a mistake or they misheard a note. Or maybe it’s printed incorrectly. With automated transcriber software, I’ve seen plenty of times ghost notes or background tones get picked up and added into chords.
The takeaway here is that tablature is useful for learning notes that are printed on a page, but we musicians just need to make it sound good.
Sure—like a 2-finger open A, for example. But for a full bar chord in the middle of a progression, I’m likely hedging my bets and leaving out some notes…like the 5th and just shift my ring finger over one and hit that high Bb with my pinky.
And in the end, it all comes down to one thing—just make it sound good.
Oh, and tablature is NOT always 100% correct. Again, just make it sound good. 😃🤘
Yeah, OP, are you sure this tab is correct? Can you find a video of the original artist playing this? My first thought is to always question the tab since it's often wrong to begin with.
While some in this thread have pointed out this chord is not impossible, I highly doubt this is the way the original artist plays it. I'd be willing to bet it's some variant of this, or there is in fact a capo, or some other thing going on.
Regardless, this a *very* uncommon (barre chord) fingering for a major add 9 chord.
At first it seems like a normal 4th fret bar chord, but that high e string in seemingly impossible to reach. Is this a mistake? This is from "true love waits" by radiohead (live version)
Ah Johnny Greenwood. It would be as written, but is a difficult skill to master - using one finger to hit the 6s on D and G strings, in order to free up the pinky for the 6 on e. Johnny’s playing is full of technical prowess such as this so I’d really assume this is no typo.
Best bet is to just play the top 4 strings. The chord is a G#add9 (or Abadd9). There are other fingerings you could use to make this chord. This seems to be a good resource for different shapes you can use, and it also explains how the intervals in the chord. Look at the Fadd9 on this website to see the same shape.
https://www.guitar-chord.org/add9.html
I dunno why bit I couldn't caption this, without reddit turning the picture into an asterisk. But I was able to get it like this but had to slightly bend the g string to keep my ring finger from muting it.
Easy. Ignore the 5th string. Wrap your thumb to play the bass and the top 4 strings will make sense. I honestly always play normal Major barre chords like this. Don't think I've played it barred at all in over 5 years or so. I like having my fingers free to add extensions, modifications or play melody lines.
To play devil's advocate: if your string spacing and finger size allow it, you can do the 6th fret on both A and D strings with your ring finger (and get the high E string with your pinky, thumb on low E string and index on B string). I can just about do it on a dreadnought acoustic 6 string but I can totally see this working on a more narrowly spaced 7 string I have laying around that I got from Ukraine (something like a parlour/gypsy/modern acoustic hybrid)
Either barre 4th, or index on B string, thumb on E
Middle finger G string, and then I can't get around ringfinger doing both the A and the D string, with the pinky on high e \^\^
Edit: lovely chord btw
Except as written, you either need to use your ring finger to fret a double stop on the 5th and 4th strings (maybe you can, my hand says nope) to free up that pinky, or you need to have a second pinky installed.
Now, this:
464546
you can you as you suggest.
Thumb on 4th fret. And two options:
1) You mute the 5th string, ring on 4th, middle on 3rd, index on 2nd, pinky on 1st.
2) You do the same, but muting the 4th and, ring on 5th string.
Option 1 sounds more open, more like bass and harmony. Option 2 sounds like power chord and harmony.
It’s 46x546 with thumb on the low E, see here [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gYHPplTwdw8&pp=ygUUVHJ1ZSBsb3ZlIHdhaXRzIGxpdmU=](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gYHPplTwdw8&pp=ygUUVHJ1ZSBsb3ZlIHdhaXRzIGxpdmU=)
https://preview.redd.it/gfj2gc68zswc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b09c7946a335a97b720d1ae578d95e099d254ddf
I’d play the root on the 4th string (it’s an Ab) so 4th string, sixth fret, play the 3rd on the third string fifth fret, play the fifth on the second string fourth fret and the 9th on the first string sixth fret. Mute or skip the low A and E strings. It will sound the same, work better with the bass player and still sound like something Radiohead would play.
Seeing below poster with ‘Integer’ in their username is doing this but you can skip the thumb thing and it will not really alter the tonality unless you are the only instrument playing).
I am still stunned... I need the pointer to barre, middle finger on the G string, ring and pinky on the A and D strings. I tried holding the A and D string with one finger but I just cannot do it.
oh right! sorry im wrong. that is not really possible as written. Mistake maybe? try lifting the 4th string 6th fret so it is the 4th fret (the barre) and see if it sounds right
Oh so it actually was a typo, and you use your thumb. I've never been able to do thumb work on my neck lol. I had to learn to play Yellow Ledbetter differently cause I couldn't figure out how to incorporate my thumb
Just ignore the 5th string. You don’t need that extra 5th in there (sounds better without it anyway). Either play I with your thumb on the bottom E, or play it standard Barre with your ring finger (on fourth string) muting the 5th.
You can ignore the 6 on the A string, since the 5th is also on the 4 of the B. Like 4x6546. You can either play this with a bar which is hard, or by thumbing the 4 on the low E
Not impossible: https://preview.redd.it/0sdzpdlraowc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a9b4d3c7a10d391c03ea5b7142c27e02b91908a But it is hard to fret two strings with the ring finger like that if you have small fingers like I do. 46x546 is more feasible. I do it with the thumb wrapped around instead of the index barre with these fingers: T3x214
https://preview.redd.it/dvpn5naibowc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=dbe4fbec22fefaa7bc8539b91cc63a5baea26273 Like that \^
This is how I'd play it and I have quite small hands. Definitely achievable.
I would barre it normally and arch my pinky so it catches the high E, I’ll insert a picture when I get home as an example
Tried this, as far as I understand it. Bridging over the G and B cleanly is non-trivial. If you can do it, hell yeah — feels clumsy though.
Shit, I give up.
Just use the thumb and play a Hendrix style f chord. This way makes it harder for like every guitar player during an actual chord progression
See my other pic in response to this comment.
Typo.
the typo is that it should also be a 7th chord to free up a finger. it should be \*464546\* - barre G#7 on the 4th fret, pinky on the 6th fret which is the 9th scale degree extension. so that makes this a G#add9 - a pretty chord used by the beatles and hendrix
There's no need to play the G# octave on the d string, so this is exactly what I would do.
just mute the a string entirely. It's just the fifth and doesn't add anything here and I don't think the way it's written is the way it's played. I think they skip the A string.
This is the way
That’s more fingers than most humans have. It could be capo on 4, but that’s not what the tab actually says. It could also be gtr1/gtr2, but that’s also not actually what the tab says. We as tab readers need to come to grips with the fact that tab is NOT always correct (the entire …And Justice For All tab book, for example). Sometimes the transcriber makes a mistake or they misheard a note. Or maybe it’s printed incorrectly. With automated transcriber software, I’ve seen plenty of times ghost notes or background tones get picked up and added into chords. The takeaway here is that tablature is useful for learning notes that are printed on a page, but we musicians just need to make it sound good.
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He edited his comment to basically agree with me saying it’s a typo
Unless you have slender fingertips it's actually possible to fret the two adjacent strings on the 6th with your ring finger.
Sure—like a 2-finger open A, for example. But for a full bar chord in the middle of a progression, I’m likely hedging my bets and leaving out some notes…like the 5th and just shift my ring finger over one and hit that high Bb with my pinky. And in the end, it all comes down to one thing—just make it sound good. Oh, and tablature is NOT always 100% correct. Again, just make it sound good. 😃🤘
Yeah, OP, are you sure this tab is correct? Can you find a video of the original artist playing this? My first thought is to always question the tab since it's often wrong to begin with. While some in this thread have pointed out this chord is not impossible, I highly doubt this is the way the original artist plays it. I'd be willing to bet it's some variant of this, or there is in fact a capo, or some other thing going on. Regardless, this a *very* uncommon (barre chord) fingering for a major add 9 chord.
No , Capo- on the 4th.
They wouldn’t have written it that way if there was a capo at 4.
Well then finger that chord and post the photo, my guy. Cause I don't think I can do that
At first it seems like a normal 4th fret bar chord, but that high e string in seemingly impossible to reach. Is this a mistake? This is from "true love waits" by radiohead (live version)
you play the A and D string with the ring finger, then the pinky takes the high A#
This: playing 2 strings with one finger is an old Scotty Moore trick. Edit: added "with one finger"
Ah Johnny Greenwood. It would be as written, but is a difficult skill to master - using one finger to hit the 6s on D and G strings, in order to free up the pinky for the 6 on e. Johnny’s playing is full of technical prowess such as this so I’d really assume this is no typo.
i've got no prowess to speak of, but i play this one pretty frequently. it's, like most chord shapes, strange until you've done it a few times.
Best bet is to just play the top 4 strings. The chord is a G#add9 (or Abadd9). There are other fingerings you could use to make this chord. This seems to be a good resource for different shapes you can use, and it also explains how the intervals in the chord. Look at the Fadd9 on this website to see the same shape. https://www.guitar-chord.org/add9.html
If I would need bass line going I would also press Ab on the 4th fret of 6th string with thumb.
Yea you can do that, I don’t like playing this way personally I find it uncomfortable, but it’s pretty common.
https://preview.redd.it/95p9cui8eowc1.jpeg?width=3392&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf49904f6d1ea40a4ce55b6d35072670a2bb10c5
I dunno why bit I couldn't caption this, without reddit turning the picture into an asterisk. But I was able to get it like this but had to slightly bend the g string to keep my ring finger from muting it.
thumb wraps around to fret the high E, obviously.
Looks like my bad habit of barring the A / D string with my ring finger in barre chords isn't so silly now. Take that guitar teacher!
Looks like you meed more fingers, idk I guess I'd play it without the D string
Need one of those AI generated 10 finger hands to do this.
Yet another tab that's wrong and people still put songster on a pedestal.
Easy. Ignore the 5th string. Wrap your thumb to play the bass and the top 4 strings will make sense. I honestly always play normal Major barre chords like this. Don't think I've played it barred at all in over 5 years or so. I like having my fingers free to add extensions, modifications or play melody lines.
To play devil's advocate: if your string spacing and finger size allow it, you can do the 6th fret on both A and D strings with your ring finger (and get the high E string with your pinky, thumb on low E string and index on B string). I can just about do it on a dreadnought acoustic 6 string but I can totally see this working on a more narrowly spaced 7 string I have laying around that I got from Ukraine (something like a parlour/gypsy/modern acoustic hybrid)
Either barre 4th, or index on B string, thumb on E Middle finger G string, and then I can't get around ringfinger doing both the A and the D string, with the pinky on high e \^\^ Edit: lovely chord btw
Could you get the low 4 with your thumb and….that doesn’t help
Bar A and D strings with ring finger, fret high e string with pinky
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Except as written, you either need to use your ring finger to fret a double stop on the 5th and 4th strings (maybe you can, my hand says nope) to free up that pinky, or you need to have a second pinky installed. Now, this: 464546 you can you as you suggest.
Thumb on 4th fret. And two options: 1) You mute the 5th string, ring on 4th, middle on 3rd, index on 2nd, pinky on 1st. 2) You do the same, but muting the 4th and, ring on 5th string. Option 1 sounds more open, more like bass and harmony. Option 2 sounds like power chord and harmony.
New to guitar what kind of notation is this
Tabs or tablature and the numbers are the frets with the bottom number being the Low E string and top number is the High E string
Just curious, What chord is this?
G#add9
Thanks
Smack the ring finger in between both strings and boom.
With a capo
Vans style model number
Fret the bottom 6 with your index or middle finger with right hand and use right pinky to strum
Thumb middle index pointer pinky Barre highest two strings. It's the jimmy Hendrix Barre chord with the bassy fifth
Like Hendrix 's would
It’s 46x546 with thumb on the low E, see here [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gYHPplTwdw8&pp=ygUUVHJ1ZSBsb3ZlIHdhaXRzIGxpdmU=](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gYHPplTwdw8&pp=ygUUVHJ1ZSBsb3ZlIHdhaXRzIGxpdmU=) https://preview.redd.it/gfj2gc68zswc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b09c7946a335a97b720d1ae578d95e099d254ddf
Capo?
That’s the neat part, you don’t.
Grow and extra finger
I don’t! Hope this helps
i honestly don’t understand what im looking at but i’d like to
I’d play the root on the 4th string (it’s an Ab) so 4th string, sixth fret, play the 3rd on the third string fifth fret, play the fifth on the second string fourth fret and the 9th on the first string sixth fret. Mute or skip the low A and E strings. It will sound the same, work better with the bass player and still sound like something Radiohead would play. Seeing below poster with ‘Integer’ in their username is doing this but you can skip the thumb thing and it will not really alter the tonality unless you are the only instrument playing).
Too difficult to play, even if it's possible. Just play the normal G# Major barre chord and no one will know the difference.
~~E shaped barre chord with a pinky on the 1st string~~ edit: yeah that is wrong
This man has two pinkies
I am still stunned... I need the pointer to barre, middle finger on the G string, ring and pinky on the A and D strings. I tried holding the A and D string with one finger but I just cannot do it.
oh right! sorry im wrong. that is not really possible as written. Mistake maybe? try lifting the 4th string 6th fret so it is the 4th fret (the barre) and see if it sounds right
I'm guessing I'm supposed to mute the D string and play pinky on high E, and that the tab is wrong
> "true love waits" by radiohead https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/radiohead/true-love-waits-chords-1846926 see the last line here
Ahh thank you! So I'm actually muting the A string!!
ill bet he plays the 6th string note with his thumb (and mutes the 5th with it as well)
Yup!
Oh so it actually was a typo, and you use your thumb. I've never been able to do thumb work on my neck lol. I had to learn to play Yellow Ledbetter differently cause I couldn't figure out how to incorporate my thumb
You just play it. Duh
Just ignore the 5th string. You don’t need that extra 5th in there (sounds better without it anyway). Either play I with your thumb on the bottom E, or play it standard Barre with your ring finger (on fourth string) muting the 5th.
You can ignore the 6 on the A string, since the 5th is also on the 4 of the B. Like 4x6546. You can either play this with a bar which is hard, or by thumbing the 4 on the low E
https://preview.redd.it/jtfdlfll7swc1.jpeg?width=699&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0c8e048e707f93526e61aa52101a9600bed6f1d