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manXcat
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manXcat
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12/06/2021 8:51 pm

"dosent sound right" (sic) is a broad remit to interpret. [br][br]snojones covers well salient points I echo and shalln't reiterate.[br][br]Electric, acoustic or classical guitar? You state you've just restrung, so new strings are unlikely a factor -unless you've just restrung [u]with nylon[/u]?[br][br]For a truly meaningful answer you really need to clarify whether you are referring to some technical issue with sounding the B7 chord (ii) [u]by you on your guitar[/u] per se, or that (ii) [u]you just don't like the B7 chord's musicality[/u]?[br][br]As you say "I am definitley playing the right notes and all notes ring perfectly" it doesn't sound as if it's the former, unless intonation is out? Have you checked the individual fretted notes with a tuner for = true when fretting the chord?[br][br]If intonation of any string is out, that string can sound perfectly in tune when tuned to standard tuning with the nut fretting, but when finger fretted elsewhere on the neck, a note can present flat or sharp which can make a chord sound 'off' to the discerning ear.

[br]To determine if it's intonation, check it. Tune to standard tuning and check notes when fretted at the 12th fret. If that's OK, or once adusted at the bridge (electric) to be so if it isn't, then recheck each [u]fretted[/u] note of the B7 chord individually. It that checks all OK, then case (ii) applies. Accept through exposure over time when you might warm to it, not a lot can be done about the sense of musicality to the individual ear until it develops. [br][br]For a perceptional comparative, B7 doesn't sound either "strange" or odd to my ear, but very much a pleasing favourite when played in any form, probably because I play a little Blues where it features large & lots of The Beatles where like Bm, B7 was a favourite of theirs too in so much of their earlier through mid-period material. e.g. B7 in every verse of "You're Going to Lose That Girl" (Help, Aug 1965). [br][br]HF&GL[br] [br][br][br]