I've suddenly become a jazz freak and I have started to look for the most bizarre chords I can find. I have hundreds that I have learned to quickly shape in songs.

A recent discovery, one of my favourite yet:
A[------]
F[------]
C[0-----]
G[--4---]
D[----6-]
A[------]

You have to arpeggiate this for it to makes sense. It uses a Gypsy tetrachord without its 4th and makes into a chord. Sounds good for ambient Eastern death.

A progression from this could be:
A[------]
F[------]
C[--0---]
G[6-----]
D[----7-]
A[------]

Thoughts?

Post your own if you wish.

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Your tuned to A standard? Damn... Well, I'm not too good with my chord analysis. I'd just have to play different chords till something sounded good to me. I'm sure some #4 or b5b7 and sus chords would sound cool.

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D-Bb-A

That's a very cool chord.

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Come up with some.

Here's a melodic progression-type thingie that I came up with when I was chugging and decided to shift my fingers about a bit while doing so.

A[-------------------------------------------------]
F[-------------------------4-----------4-----------]
C[-------------------2--2--2--------------2--------]
G[2--2--2--2--2--2--0--0--0-----------------0-----]
D[0--0--0--0--3--3--3--3--3--------------------3--]
A[-------------------------------------------------]
PM_____] PM PM

The tuning is A standard on a 7-string guitar, like KoRn or Fear Factory.
When I first got a guitar, I tried B E B E B E but I decided that this is the best, considering I wanted to move upto 7 strings as soon as I felt ready. Thus cometh my lefty Schecter C7 in March.

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This one has very strange tonalities in it. I think it's incredible.

A[22--]
F[-----]
C[21--]
G[20--]
D[20--]
A[20--]

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mixture of an aug and a sus4.
-8---8--- sounds like somone
-6---6--- crying, sort of. to make it sound
-9---9--- a bit more stern turn it
-7---0--- in to a slash like this
-0---0---
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they both sound cool. i used them in this project i had to do over the holocaust. Maj b7 is great for irony, diminished is sometimes good for like humorous situation. exp: trumpet laugh

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Whao! Awesome chords, man. Wait til' I wrap my fingers around them!

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First one sounds very Deathspell Omega.

ur welcome. and if ur wondering why the extra octave, it makes it more powerful. as well the slash.

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i think it sounds best arpeggiated like this

-------8---------8---
-----6---------6--
---9----------9---
-7----------0-----
-0----------0-----
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Yeah, I immediatly picked out the notes like that first time I played it, because it's exactly like a Deathspell Omega song I've heard. Can't remember which one though.

Everyone should know DSO's Si Monumentum album anyways.

hmm. never heard of them

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Otiz...hell yeah!!!! DSO rules. You into Blut Aus Nord as well.
I've notice a lot of BM bands these days use a structure similar to what YJM04 posted. Something like this could be used almost anywhere:

-------
-------
-------
-----5-
---9---
-7-----

Goofing around, you could do:

---------------------------
--------------------5------
----------------------5----
-----7---7-------9---------
---9---9---5---7--------0--
-5-----------0--------------

That's actually pretty similar to what I'm doing with my band

Otiz, that particular riff or the "technique" in general? Seems a lot of the bands these days, and especially the "orthodox BM" bands are using that styling. Also noticed that Wrest of Leviathan/Lurker of Chalice uses it a lot to create a more ambient feel during some of his slower pieces. My band's been trying to use it as well because of the dissonant feeling it gives, that piece is actually from something we're currently working on. What band are you in Otiz?

i like doing this cord alot with out drop d im sure yall done this one befor.

e------
b------
g------
d--5---
a--3---
e--3---

In any position.

I love those chords. It's like a root/5th with a stacked 4th on top. Those give the chord so much thickness. Don't forget the major and minor diad too. They add so much beef to the melodic effect the diad has.


major diad stacked 4th

G--2--
A--3--
E--3--

minor diad stacked 4th

G--1--
A--3--
E--3--

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Again, for my lack of training in theory, what would something like this be called?

-------
-------
-------
-----5-
---9---
-7-----

What other types of chords would give a similar feeling? Or even the rather "out of tune" sound of chords like:

------- ------
------- ------
------- ------
------- ---0--
---10-- ---9--
----7-- ---7--

or even:

------
------
------
--12--
---9--
---7--

The latter three work well when tremolo picked. Appreciate the help.

I don't know the names in english. I could maybe tell you in Icelandic though

Anyways, my band's called Stálregn and we sometimes use a style like that. We play very oldschool Immortalish stuff just to have fun with it.

edit: Aw, fuck it.

Just a root+fifth and a 'small' sixth (as I said, dunno all the words for it in english)
-------
-------
-------
-----5-
---9---
-7-----

Same without the fifth and the latter is just a minor chord
------- ------
------- ------
------- ------
------- ---0--
---10-- ---9--
----7-- ---7--

Minor chord again.
------
------
------
--12--
---9--
---7--

Cool, thanks a lot Otiz. I know minors are used a lot and definitely adds to the sound and atmospher of BM. Guess I need to dig a bit deeper into the theory. I'm about as self-taught as one can get (17 years now). I don't know the names for anything, I just know what works.

The 7-9-5.
I came up with a chord with an identical formula the other day.
Root - perfect 5th - minor 6th

It's like the most melancholy chord there is before you pass into dissonance.

How about we try submitting our most dissonant and atonal discoveries.

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Unanything, I'd love to hear what some other people have come up with. Those are about the extent of what I've got as far as twisted sounding chords. There are some others, but I think they're just varients of the ones I've already posted.

Some bands that use similar chords that I like include Leviathan, Lurker of Chalice, Craft, Deathspell Omega, Mutiilation, and Blut Aus Nord (though I think they use a lot more to create their hellish sound...like fretless guitars and bass).

Leviathan. I want to hear them.
Before I'd heard of them, that's what my band was called.
We do transcendental death metal.
There are two Leviathans in history.
One is the black metal band then there was this Leviathan from Colorado in the USA. They were a prog' power metal band. Both had rather mystical concepts in their music, as do we.

But I'd still like to hear everyone else's ideas.
How selfish it is to assume. And you can create your own after you've read this thread, of course, then post.

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You're right, there was a Leviathan from Colorado in addition to the black metal Leviathan from San Francisco, (awesome one-man band of Wrest) but there was also one from:

New York - Death/Thrash - Included Chris Barnes of Cannibal Corpse - Vox and Jeff Juszkiewicz of Malevolent Creation - guitar

A Heavy Metal band somewhere in the US that released a self-titled album in 1999.

One from Turkey.
Spain.
Germany.
Sweden.
Argentina.

Not to mention Children of Leviathan, Opus Leviathan, and Leviathane. So the name's obviously been quite abused, hehe.

Transcendental death metal? Sounds interesting, kinda like a more death metal version of Disembowlment? I'd like to hear what your band sounds like. Got a name?

Still looking foward to everyone else's ideas as well.

I've PMed you some info'.

Here are my most dissonant chords.

A[------------][-----------]
F[------------][-------0---]
C[------------][-----6-----]
G[15----------][--0-------]
D[----19------][4---------]
A[--------0---][----------]

Beat that. I use these in our songs. Arpeggiate as shown for dehumanising dissonance.

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D 6----------7
A 3
E 1

I find it a neat little resolution and embedded in a grander progression it works really nicely

Do you hammer onto the 7 after a bit there?
Quite a melancholy number there.
It's simply F minor.

I like alternating between the variants of the minor chord.

D[----------]
A[----------]
F[------3--3]
C[8---5-5---]
G[5-1-1-5-1-]
D[3-3-3-3-3-]

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Favourite chords:

That must be Second Prayer.

I myself like to use a lot sick and twisted chords. But mostly I like to breed minor third with diminished fifth and minor second in various ways I can find.

Tyranor, got any examples?

There's some real gems in there.

The first. And add9 with a hit of dissonant melancholy at the top.
The second is quite nice. A minor chord with a flattened fifth and a sharpened octave. It would be a very melancholy chord. It's got a major 2nd interval at the top that would complement any melody in it.

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flamencoy progression
e min a min the d7. but it sounds cooler played like this just on each chord, and on the second time u go to the e min do a ragsado. to give it some flair
-0-0-2-0-----0--0---0---0---0-----------
-0-1-0-0------------------0---------
-0-2-2-2--------------0-------------
-2-2-1-2----------2-----------------
-2-0-2-2-----2---------------------
-0-----0---0----------------------

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Yeah I love making depressive music with those chords, -Unanything

My leadwork usually ends up with tons of horrific chords in it apart from the fact I change scales all the time and create my own on the spot as well. I can implement them really quickly too. I was sliding around minor 2nd dyads the other day. 'Destroyer Of Melodies' is my name for that chord.
I'm just a weirdhead.

I've found this cool progression the other day.

A[------------------------------------]
F[------------------------------------]
C[9---6-------------------------------]
G[--------8---5-----------------------]
D[7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7--]
A[--------------------9---6---3---0---]

I think you can call the whole thing A diminished because of the pattern. Look closely!

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That last bit's cool.
There's a certain satsifaction one may derive from large string skipping.

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