Or at least some long fingers.

Some of these are a STRETCH. I've been playing guitar for a long time and I'm having a little bit of trouble reaching some of these...

>Here's my faves that I probly use way too much. If anyone can
>help with some theory (chord names/explanations) I'm all ears.
> Hopefully my tab is self-explanatory:
>
>All time fave:
>
>X 0 2 4 1 3
>
>Kinda tuff to play for beginners. But it's friggin awesome.
>I've frusterated songwriters by insisting on playing it
>whenever they call for A minor. lol.

I guess it's an Am9, because you're playing that B note on the G-string instead of the A. It also has the 7th in there as well with the G on the E-sting, so I can see how someone looking for a straight Am would get annoyed, haha.

>A similar one but a little easier in E:
>
>0 2 4 0 3 0

Exact same principle here, so apparently Em9 (because of the F# on the D-string) and the 7th on the B-string.

>This one sounds like a dungeon. Adding in the high E throws
>it for a loop:
>
>3 1 0 4 4 0

I typed this one into a chord finder and it doesn't come back with anything.

I don't really have any "favorite" chords per se, just play whatever the song calls for I guess. I do use capos a lot to make arrangements easier in certain cases. For example, The Beatles "She's Leaving Home" has a lot of B and B-minor variations, so I play it with a capo on the second fret because it's easier to play and probably actually sounds better with open A chords.

For example, there's a Bm6 , and B7sus4, and a Badd9 at different points in the song, so for strumming on an a acoustic guitar, it actually sounds really good to play those chords like this:

X02212
x02040
x05435

It would be pretty easy to play all of those without the capo on just the first four strings, however using the capo and playing them like this allows you to get the open B note to ring out the whole time and adds a lot more richness to the chords. (Again, we're talking solo acoustic guitar arrangements here, so this might not be entirely necessary in an ensemble.

I have an acoustic guitar arrangement for "Penny Lane" that follows the exact same principle, and actually works really well.

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