So I'll just see here if I'm getting this. I'm dying to understand what it is I'm doing.
This is the full progression I made from the original post.
V) D/F#
I) G
III) Bmno5
II) Ano5add4 or Dmaj7no3/A
?) Dno5
?) Ano5add4 or Dmaj7no3/A
I) G
e|-x--x--x--x---x---x---x--------------------------------------------|
B|-x--x--x--x---x---x---x--------------------------------------------|
G|-2--4--7--6--11--6---4--------------------------------------------|
D|-0--0--0--0---0---0---0-------------------------------------------|
A|-x--x--x--x---x---x---x-------------------------------------------|
E|-2--3--7--5--10---5---3-------------------------------------------|
And how I played it :)
[U]Acoustic Version [/U]
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Looks like I"m in the Key of G major because G is my I chord.
V) D/F#
I now know that this is a chord inversion. A D chord with F# being the lowest note in the chord.
I) G
My tonic chord because it's the resolution (even though it's not the chord the progression is started on )
III) Bmno5
Someone is probably going to have to explain the no5 part to me.
II) Ano5add4 or Dmaj7no3/A
V) Dno5
So this might be my V chord because dmajor is the V and this is just a different voicing from the D/F#?
?) Ano5add4 or Dmaj7no3/A
I'm confused why it says Dmaj7/A. The no 3 part means it's missing the 3rd in the scale?
I) G
So I understand now that I'm playing these chords the way they are because I like the bass voice on the 6th string as well as when I play the chords this way I can go "up" or "down" with the voices in a specific manner that I wanted. That goes along with your chord voicings lesson and why you choose one chord voicing over the other.
When I first looked at this without all the chord names it looked really simple. I basically have 2 strings I have to fret and only 2 chord shapes to remember. My friend had showed me a couple of them. He's been playing guitar a long time, but he's not huge into music theory.
Anyway, when you look at it broken down it doesn't look simple AT ALL. In fact I failed to understand the progression I made in several ways. Some of those chords I can't figure out why they're named the way they are and what their function is in the progression. It sounds good to me, but like I said I'm asking myself "What am I doing?" and I'm needing help filling in the gaps.
Sorry this is super long, but I'm really excited to learn all this lol