How do YOU play a G chord?

[ozover50]

Opens?? I'm worried about when it closes, Aitch.

You go to the wrong ones, Stan. Many over here just keep going all day and night!

[JakeK]

32OO33

If I'm playing a song with lots of barre chords, then I'll play it 355433

[1965]

Learned 320033, but I also play it's ugly stepsister 3X0003 from time to time. Depends on the song

[ric325v63]

I use all the variations depending on sound desired. I started with the index finger version of the open G but had so much trouble getting quickly to open C that I switched to not using the index finger any more. I am so used to not using the index finger (get to C real easy) that I have trouble using 320033 because I have to go back to the index finger version which I'm not used to anymore.

[pacealot]

+1 on all variations - it totally depends on the "color" wanted, and, if I'm playing a 12-string, if I can fit my kielbasas on the strings! I do like the D on the B string for that ringy "Tell Me What You See"-sort of sound. Open B sound more country to me somehow. Barre chord sounds more, well, barre.

Actually, if I'm playing along with a rhythm guitar, I usually go to x-10-9-7-8-7 as my first choice, with that same shape as a common choice for other chords in the vicinity (like anywhere from E to A)....

[firstbassman]

I always mute out the B on the A string, and leave the B string open.

You and I John are the only two who responded that way.

Must be a bass player thing.

Interesting that 320033 got the most votes. Having that high D (on the B string) ring makes a very nice sweet and "jangly" tone. So it kind of makes sense that it would be the most popular on a Rickenbacker site.

I play a very similar 3x0033 to play GE Smith's version of Steve Earle's "I Ain't Ever Satisfied." Rings very nicely on a Telecaster.

PS: Just when I was starting to learn to play guitar there was a photo of James Taylor on the cover of Vanity Fair Magazine holding a G chord. I thought it was very cool that I recognized what that was.

[ram]

Usually loud.

[edski]

Not that I play much 6 string now...I went back to bass when that open fingering with the d (3rd fret b string) added started getting popular (along with the C add 9 chord...hate them both...cheesy voicings).

In reality I play many different G chords when I play guitar...

[lyle_from_minneapolis]

I voted for 32OOO3, but I use 32OO33 just as much. There is more chime to 32OO33 (opening of "Take it Easy"), and more darkness to 32OOO3 (opening of "Pigs on the Wing"). I sometimes mute the B, but only for effect, and usually as 3XOO33.

[wj350]

Either of the last two choices, depending on the other chords for ease of change. Normally the third choice if I just do it without thinking.

Bill

[whojamfan]

I learned it 230003, but then I saw Johnny Ramone play it 230033 in Rock and Roll High School, and have played it that way ever since. It's my "go to" G chord, unless the song requires the bar shape or the first open way I learned it.

[johnashfield]

I use 320003 even though I was taught 320033. It seemed to me that G often went to C and why not play G with almost the same fingering? third finger, second finger, then pinky up at the top!

[lyle_from_minneapolis]

Keith Richards: 000000.

[cjj]

I put down 32OOO3, but actually, most of the time, I just use 32OO. I generally run out of strings after that...

But, when I do set down my bass and try to make sounds on a guitar that won't scare the cats, I do use 32OOO3.

[kiramdear]

In order of preference:

320033
3rd fret barre like an E chord
X(10)9787 (I love this one when it fits)
10th fret barre like an A
320003 (for country)

I use 'em all but like that jangly first one for most pop and acoustic songs the barres for boogy-ing.