Petrushka Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is 

The Petrushka chord is a frequently used polychord used in Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka. These two major triads, C major and F# major - a tritone apart, these two chords clash when sounded together and create a dissonant chord.

There are a number of ways to finger this chord on the guitar this inversion is up on the 8th fret:


The C major chord uses the notes C, E and G
The F# major chord uses the notes F#, A# and C#

Polychords use the notes of two chords together and are written like this:
       C
       F#
Polychords shouldn't be confused with slash chords. Slash chords indicate a chord with an alternate bass note. So C / F# is a slash chord that is played as a C major chord with F# in the bass.

Dissonant Guitar Chords

Following yesterday's very nice sounding C Major 9 Guitar chord, today's Guitar Chord is full of clashing semitone intervals: it's a dissonant guitar chord that is made up entirely of 6 notes a semitone apart. These nasty sounding chords are easy to find on the piano - just rest your elbow one a cluster of note - but surprisingly hard to find on the guitar.

This chord and our other dissonant guitar chords sound pretty nasty, so reserve them for special occasions!

Today's dissonant guitar chord uses the notes B C C# D D# E
If you're feeling particularly brave, check out the other very dissonant guitar chords here.

Tune in tomorrow for another (but more ear friendly) Guitar Chord Of The Day.

Dissonant Guitar Chords

We've played a lot of beautiful sounding guitar chords recently, we'll get nasty with today's Guitar Chord of the Day and have another post in our occasional series of dissonant guitar chords. As with our other dissonant guitar chords this one has 6 semitone halfsteps and no root note. Use these chords only when you want a harsh clashing dissonant sound!

Today's dissonant guitar chord uses these notes: C#, D, D#, E, F, F#

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Dissonant Guitar Chords - Number 5

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is another dissonant guitar chord in our occasional series on Dissonant Chords. As with our other dissonant guitar chords this one has 6 semitone halfsteps.
Here are the notes for this guitar chord:
D#, E, F, F#, G, G#

As this chord is very dissonant and is made up 6 half-steps, it can't really be labeled in the usual way.
Tune in to Guitar Chord of the Day tomorrow when we'll look at how to make lots more chords from our 12 Dominant 7th Chords Every Guitarist Should Know.

Dissonant Guitar Chords - Number 4

Continuing our occasional series of dissonant guitar chords, today we have another guitar chord that has 6 semitone steps.
Guitar chords don't get much more dissonant than this, so use this chord and our other dissonant guitar chords only when you want some harsh sounding guitar chords that are very dissonant.

Today's dissonant guitar chord uses these notes:
D D# E F F# G

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Dissonant Chord - number 3

Continuing our occassional series of dissonant chords, today we have another guitar chord that has 6 semitone steps.
As with our other very dissonant guitar chords, this will probably only be used occasionally or in special circumstances.

Today's dissonant guitar chord uses these notes:
F# G G# A A# B

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Dissonant Chord - number 2

Continuing our occasional series of nasty sounding dissonant chords, today we have another chord that has 6 half steps and defies description in usual harmonic terms.

Today's guitar chord uses these notes:

E, A, F#, G, F, G#

Use with caution! :) Check in tomorrow for another chord of the day!