I have finally gotten back into doing a bit of music! 🎉
There was a video from Justin Guitar about taking the common open chord shapes and moving them around the neck, and one of the things he said that's super valuable to try is to just play an open chord and then try lifting a finger or two up from some of the strings and see how it sounds, and "If it sounds good, it is good." I did some mucking around with the open position A minor chord, lifting a finger up, moving things around, and adding some hammer-ons in as well, and and am seriously stoked at how this came out. (The drums aren't actually me, I dropped some grooves in from Superior Drummer 3 and will do some recording myself when my arm is better and once I've expanded this out into a full song.)
One stumbling point came when I decided I should add bass to it, because I realised I had no idea what the actual chords were that weren't just the open shape and some of the notes I was playing on the bass were really off-sounding. 😅 I did some searching and came across this ridiculously handy website that lets you plug in the strings you're playing and on which frets, and it'll tell you what the chord is! So I was able to figure out the chords and then add some simple bass to it that actually sounds good as well.
(For the record, the chords in question are apparently Am, Esus, Dsus2, and the heavy strums at the beginning of each bar in the last four bars are A7sus2.)
