Can you name this chord?

[frankus]

The chord is

X332XX , like an E moved down a fret

but I play it with a CAPO on the second fret so it is techincally

X554XX

Can anyone name this chord, it's stumped a lot of people,
I'm using it in a song I wrote in the intro (F// ??// Em // Em/G //).

So to get that clear-er.

033200 -> 255422

Is that right?

So it's F# D G B C# F# ?

Next, does F// ??// Em // Em/G // mean those chords or are they the patterns being used ... but transposed 2 frets up?

ie: "F" => 355433, "Em" =>255222, "G" => 542225 ?

which would really mean G// ??// F#m // F#m/A //

[Nik Harrison]

So:

X = don't play this string?

0 = play the string open?

[smokingbeagle]

So:

X = don't play this string?

0 = play the string open?

Yip!

[Nik Harrison]

So:

X = don't play this string?

0 = play the string open?

Yip!

Then the first chord is F (2nd inversion)

[digitalkettle]

So:

X = don't play this string?

0 = play the string open?

Yip!

Then the first chord is F (2nd inversion)

I think we're assuming that the OP got their 0s and Xs...erm...crossed.

[Nik Harrison]

So:

X = don't play this string?

0 = play the string open?

Yip!

Then the first chord is F (2nd inversion)

I think we're assuming that the OP got their 0s and Xs...erm...crossed.

In which case it will be F maj 6/7, or Em6b9sus4 (or another couple of names that exist academically, but are not really worth putting down here)

[MrNis]

So:

X = don't play this string?

0 = play the string open?

Yip!

Then the first chord is F (2nd inversion)

I think we're assuming that the OP got their 0s and Xs...erm...crossed.

In which case it will be F maj 6/7, or Em6b9sus4 (or another couple of names that exist academically, but are not really worth putting down here)

I wouldnae agree with that - are we looking at the same voicing?

0
0
2
3
3
0

I'd call that Fmaj7#11/E

But I'd probably just call it an E phrygian voicing, that's the easiest way I relate to it.

[thing]

Yeah I see where you might get a #11 instead of a b5 there. I wasn't really thinking of the upper voicing.

[imported_adrianclark]

I think we're assuming that the OP got their 0s and Xs...erm...crossed.

But then, if he/she can do that, what's to say that he/she didn't also confuse the 2s with 1s and the 3s with 7s? :shock:

I think we can now safely say that the chord in question is...

077100

Like I said all along, C major. :wink:


adrian

[Nik Harrison]

My mistake,

It is Fmaj7#11/E, and not an F maj6/7 chord (I misread the tab) Em6b9sus4 still applys.

You can call it anything really though. If anything at all, it's approaching a bi-tonal chord. It's an F and an E (no 3rd) at the same time. There is an academic school of thought which will name it by it's rules, and a practical school of thought which will name it similarly.