Guitar?!?!!?

Autumn Ammo: Guitar?!?!!?
I’ve recently started singing and playing guitar again.
I’m trying to write a song and so far ive come up with the chords:
Em7, G, C2, and D. I need some other chords that would sound good with them.
So which ones sound good with them???

Answers and Views:

Answer by Ozzy Osbourne Fan!!
whateevr sounds right to you

Answer by wolfieguitarman
that is too vaugue , it depends on all facets of the song.. start with a basic 3 chord song with maybe some additions at the bridge and, chorus but, stick with the 3 basic chords.. dont make it too complicated. some of the greatest songs in history have only 3 chords.. its a great way to start and, sometimes a great way to finish… good luck

Answer by DSatt57
F and A also would sound good.

Answer by Ronnie Dobbs
B, Asus2

is that your progression?

Answer by herzesser99
That’s basically E natural minor which could also be called G major, You start on a minor note so I would go for a major leaning “uplifting” chorus out of G major, so maybe
G-Bm-C-Cm
that romantic major to minor change (C to C minor) is always a winner, Ala the Beatles
or
you could go with a bluesier/folky progression like say
G-F7-C-G

of all the lame answers why is mine the only thumbs down?
Y!A sucks and is full of trolls
I kept it simple and Saul gave a Jazz lecture, do you (asker) even know what hes talking about?

Answer by saul_sabia
You’ve established a pretty good progression with these chords (I’m going to assume that Em7-G-Csus2-D is your progression). Key of G – Relative minor 7, Tonic, 4thsus2, Fifth. Good stuff, basic but with a few color notes to make it sound a little different. (Yes, technically this could be considered key of E minor. I’m assuming major unless told otherwise)

Perhaps you want to ramp up the excitement. You could modulate up and start a progression in the 4th note of the key, or even the fifth – that would be C or D respectively.

Try this… Play your progression through, but on the last time playing it, play it a little differently…

Em7 – G – Csus2 – D7 (you could play it xx0212 )

then play

Am – C – Fmaj7

(Fmaj7 could be played like this x33210 )

This could be a type of prechorus or an interlude. Going back into your first part, it should flow pretty well. The D7 sets up a natural move to the Am, which moves to it’s relative major, which moves up to its fourth maj7, which is primed to go back to the first progression. This does modulate you out of G major a bit, but its only 1 sharp away, and they’re both major, so I think it’s doable.

Don’t discount simplicity, either. After ending on that D you could go straight into a simple back-and-forth chord movement, something like

Am – C

This is a little stagnant, but its simple and puts a new chord on the map. If you felt really adventurous you could modulate things a bit, and make the A a major chord

F#m – Amaj or F#m – A7

This changes the underlying key from G major to A major or A mixolydian, depending on how technical you wanted to be about it, I guess.

The nice thing about ending on an A7 is that it would naturally flow back to the Em7 of the first verse.

These are somewhat “jazzy” moves, and I don’t have my guitar here to play them through, but they’re something worth jamming out. I like playing in key, but I like playing outside of the box and adding new and unexpected chords and chord movements into the mix when I can.

I’m not sure if you’re playing Csus2, Cadd2, or Cadd9, but the chord form I’ve liked playing is Cadd9 – it could be played x32033. I like it mostly because it’s really easy to go to G major, 320033.

Saul