Category:Drop guitar-chords

In music drop chords take a noted-pitch from a chord-voicing and drop it by one or more octaves. In the theory of guitar chords, drop chords are discussed for the Spanish (standard) tuning E-A-D-G-B-E.

For example, given the closed-voicing bass-root voicing of the C-major seventh chord (C,E,G,B), a drop-two voicing takes the 2nd highest pitch and drops it an octave, resulting in the voicing (G,C,E,B). a drop-three voicing takes the third highest pitch and drops it an octave, resulting in (E,C,G,B).

The terminology of drop-n tunings refines the declarations of chord voicings using the terminology of inverted chords.

Consequently the chords of this category need not be for drop tunings, which tune a string down---like the drop-D tuning D-A-D-G-B-E that down-tunes the Spanish tuning, for the bass perfect-fifth (D,A). Indeed, no examples of drop-chords for drop-tunings are contained here (as of September 2014).

Further reading[edit]

• Smith, Johnny (1980) "XVII: Upper structure inversions of the dominant seventh chords" in Mel Bay's complete Johnny Smith approach to guitar, Complete, Mel Bay Publications, pp. 92–97 ISBN: 1-5622-2239-2. pp. 92–93
• Chapman, Charles (2000) Drop-2 concept for guitar, Mel Bay Publications, Inc. ISBN: 0786644834. 6
• Fisher, Jody (2002) "Chapter Five: Expanding your 7 chord vocabulary" in Jazz guitar harmony: Take the mystery out of jazz harmony, Alfred Music Publishing, pp. 26–33 ISBN: 073902468X. 'Drop voicing' and '7th chords in drop 2 and drop 3 voicings', pp. 30-33
• Willmott, Bret (1994) Mel Bay's complete book of harmony, theory and voicing, Mel Bay Publications ISBN: 156222994X.
• Vincent, Randy (2011) "Chapter II: Tweaking drop 2" in The drop 2 book, Jazz guitar voicings, I, Sher Music Company, pp. 2–7 ISBN: 1457101378.