champion

Well, off to scare the kids in my lawn. 😂

Master work here 👏

You're the best! Thanks!

Thank you!

xhead75 lol

Lol. I'm at the point where I've played the open C too much and need to finally express my inner dark side.

hahaha

G chord, d chord, maybe e chord and a chord

im fucking siiiiiick of standard chord voicings, im fed up with open c and d lol

Which ones would you say sound most Diablo like

It low key reminds me of the music from Tristram. Especially New Tristram in Diablo 3.

Callese miserable

HAHAAHAHAH

I thought exactly the same

Scare those kids away!

Daniel Staples this is wholesome

Just sit on the front porch with an amp plugged in playing guitar and dressed as a scarecrow. 😂 Kids would lose their shit.

No, more like Alice In Chains!

Leonard Szubinski A lot of the E chords had some metallica sounds. Namely Ktulu hear a lot of Chains as well

the open E chords remind me of welcome home (sanitarium)

Many of those chords are used in a lot of rock songs by Rush, Genesis, Metallica, Alice in Chains, Randy Rhoads, Dream Theater, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Loomis. The list goes on and on and that's before you start to include the genres of jazz, fusion, gypsy etc.

No. Just no.

Spoopy

SAME XDD I JUST FREAK MYSELF OUT

Listen to these chords in headphones and you’ll feel the need to keep looking behind your back 😆

**In Your House - The Cure starts playing**

Well spotted. Dimebag is ascending the neck using those minor 3rd movements. Very cool trick.

DUUUUUH Dun Dun Dun

Understanding what has Happened before us We are confined to a Darkened hidden tomb The conquering of our world As we knew it Rise above this pit Of sorrow and pain Among the few We are the avant leaders We've got to live Through this trouble and decay This question haunts my mind Will we survive this night? We're harboring the meek Will we survive the sleep? Unsure and scared We are planning our reprise Revolves around this world We don't know anymore The odds against us Yet we're stronger and prevailing Learn from mistakes Counting souls for sale This question haunts my mind Will we survive this night? We're harboring the meek Will we survive the sleep? This question haunts my mind Will we survive this night? We're harboring the meek Will we survive the sleep? This question haunts my mind Will we survive this night? We're harboring the meek Will we survive the sleep?

The Sleep is a 5:47 long song, that chord plays at aproximately 5:46, too accurate.

@@LucasHpm Oh shit

Holy shit you're correct. That's crazy. I guess I know how to play that now! I've been hunting to figure out that chord for atleast a year now

First one was Slayer.

Thats exactly that 7th (#11) chord ....just not sure about the root note...

@@natmilcur you should learn to read tablature ! Guitar tabs have been around forever on the net.

@@dayglo98 i can read tab, I just couldn't find a useable version of diary of madman.

Yeah

Mikael Akerfeldt is awesome!

Came here to find and like a comment like this

dmitryWeirdo LOL

dmitryWeirdo That's what I thought

+Rohanjeet Das Candy donations will be accepted regardless of their means of acquisition.

Are going to play this in the background too while you take the candies lmao!

I feel dark-ass now...

😂😂

wow me too

Highways6 Also heard the sleep by pantera lol

4:24

Socially Absurd I was waiting to see if anyone else noticed

That's what I heard , Randy roads

OfficialTechGamer true dat

Diminished chords sound a bit bland to me sometimes. Of course it all depends on how they are used though.

Yes I use many of these in upbeat jazz songs which don't sound freaky at all. So effects do have some affect along with pick attack.

Rock music sucked until bands such as The Beatles and others started using diminished chords

I find its usually the contrast between major and minor notes/chords that make the scary sounding chords.

i suppose it's because the #11 creates a tritone, plus it's only one semitone away from the fifth (which are mostly being voiced in these chords) so you have an interesting combination of simultaneous resonance and dissonance

+theycallmejpj Great comment which shows an awareness of how dissonance plays a role in music.

It's like a distortion of something you associate with happiness. It's off just enough to still be called major, but twisted enough to sound wrong. Spooky

L Galicki Band Its how you use them. Major scale can sound just as dark and or sad. Can use these in DSBM. I like whats going on here.

Masterpiece!

Prisms Edits i think i have heard that same chord in David Bowie's Space oddity

Same chord is also signature chord of Voices by Dream Theater.

First thing I thought too I learned that song years ago the context that chord is used in is perfect

And isn't the A7(#11) at the beginning of Diary of a Madman?

dagerhabid snakeskin chorus?

Very Petrucci-like tone

yeah, thought so too... in many DT songs petrucci layers an acoustic recording of the same stuff on top of this kind of sound.

Chorus and reverb for the spookiest cleanest tone

he has acoustic pickups on his electric guitar (they're called pizos or something).

Yeah i played the game and i loved it when it came out. Down town and Santa Monica theme was my favourite.

BrownBagSB if you like it hear the album oktubre from patricio rey, is an argentinian famous band (oktubre was the most dark album)

No hatred, just wondering when "dank" started meaning something other than "unpleasantly damp/cold". Although these chords would be the perfect soundtrack for when you walk into my cellar.

Dank chord progression is such: G-D-Am-C for Verse G-C-C#-C for Chorus

fretjam-Sometime in the early nineties when that dank bud started rolling around. That's marijuana just in case you needed it spelled out for you. Dark, moist, sticky, smelly marijuana. Mmmmmm. Then dumb millennial wannabe hipsters started calling everything "dank". So there ya go, hope that answered your question.

Dankest chord ever: G#dim Tab: 420xxx

Oleksandr Horskyi This, this comment made me fucking lose my shit laughing. A+ for that man.

Well-stated 👍🏻

True. And Villa-Lobos!

+Patriot Civillian Bit harsh.

Is not that chord the usual diminished cord? So called "dim".

@Aleksandar Ignjatovic : No, a diminished chord is a series of minor third interval steps. It's a very linear chord, unlike the E7 flat 9 witch has a few different interval steps.

*tries to piss you off intensely*

Aylbdr Madison .

Dan Hahn EXACTLY what I thought. Brent must have somehow used time travel to watch this video over and over while recording Remission. Wouldn’t put it past him.

brent is actually a fifth dimensional being, thats why he apppears to be stoned all the time because actually he saw all the alternate timelines

quit293 yeah agree!....especially at 4:25.

The chords Randy used for the song were dark but beautiful. Randy was a genious. If he were still alive he would be at a level that nobody could ever touch.

;)

quit293 😍😎

Yes :)

No, more like Alice In Chains!

or metal church

+Kaan Öztürk A lot of these examples appear in multiple lessons. But in terms of what sounds best is really down to individual experimentation. Start by replacing instances of regular major and minor chords with these when you need some tension. The more you try different chord types in these different positions, the more familiar you will get with what works. Sometimes I just randomly try chords in unusual positions and hit some gold. Other moves are more calculated based on past experimentation.

Here are a few examples I've been messing around with that might inspire you. Some examples I mix "regular" chords with chords from the video (here's the chart for reference: www.fretjam.com/images/dark-guitar-chords-chart.gif ) Em6/9 - F#11(b9) Cadd9 - Cadd9(b13) Em(maj9) - A7 Gmaj(#11) - Fmaj7(#11) Cmaj - Fm(maj13) Daug(add9) - Gmaj Amaj - Am9(maj13)

fretjam Thank you so much. This is the most important topic i need, and i am sure many guitarists do. I'm also sure there are many videos telling about guitar chords harmonizing and combining, but it's so difficult to find something really helpful.

fretjam Let me tell you a little deeper with an example. I know that 2nd m7b5 chord sounds great between 1st and 5th. So if i have a song going from 1 to 5 , i put the 2nd m7b5 before 5 and song sounds richer. So, this is definitely what i need to know; for the chords on your video. Like "4th b5 sounds good after tonic", or "5th +13 sounds good before 4th" visa verse .

+Kaan Öztürk Trust your ears. All people like me can show is what they have personally discovered. Movements of chords are not as confined to musical systems as scales are. Of course there are conventions that, unfortunately, too much music conforms to. But with chords you are truly free to set the foundations of a piece of music without any confining preconceptions of what is right or wrong.

Joe Redfield ssup buddy ;)

Sounds very diablo-ish !

3:45 for sure!

what do you think the ones sound the most diabloish in my fellow fans opinions! the first one sounds very diablish E5#11

It seems like most of the 7th chords in this video sound very similar to Tristram.

And yes that first one definitely does too

Good ears! They also use it on Seasons in the Abyss.

Beastie Bob oh yes SLAYER!!!!!!!!

Gabriele Rocchetti That chord is actually pretty common, but that particular voicing is almost identical to the AiC song. Well spotted!

AIC has pretty much used all of these chords

Verdade uahsuahs

Also Love, Hate Love, kinda

Well, close, but no cigar.

Malcolm_mal yeah I heard that for sure