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Drop 2 chords are seventh chords that are built by dropping the second highest note of a closed position chord down one octave, making that note the bass note of the chord. Drop 2 chords are open position chords and are important for guitar players because these chords are easy to play on 4 adjacent strings.
- What are Drop 2 and drop 3 chords?
- Why are they called Drop 2 chords?
- What is drop 2 chord?
- What is a drop 3 chord?
What are Drop 2 and drop 3 chords?
The “drop” moniker comes from the way in which these voicings are generated. To create a drop 2 voicing, take a Cmaj7 chord that is stacked in thirds and “drop” the second note from the top down an octave. Dropping the third note from the third-stacked Cmaj7 creates a drop 3 voicing.
Why are they called Drop 2 chords?
Drop 2 chord voicings are formed by taking a chord and then dropping the next to the highest note, or voice, to the lowest note of the chord. ... Drop 2 is just a name for how the chords were derived from another chord.
What is drop 2 chord?
Drop 2 chords (or drop 2 voicings) refer to taking a closed-position chord and dropping the second-highest note down an octave in order to create an open-position chord. Let's look at an example.
What is a drop 3 chord?
Drop 3 chords are created by dropping the third note from the top (not the bottom) of a closed chord. So a 1357 chord would become 3157 and that's the new configuration. So here is the root position F major 7, and here is the first inversion with A on the bottom of the chord.
