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Ambient 6/11 Chords

Today I found a really interesting chord progression in E major. Just rocking back and forth between two chords.

We are going to play a 5th string rooted 6/11 chord on frets 2 & 7.

    B6/11           E6/11
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2 | * * | | |   7 | * * | | |
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Take it slow and turn your ambient reverb way up. Add a bit of shimmer if your pedal can do it.

If you have a looper pedal try getting this going in a loop so that you can solo over top of it.

Remember this is E major so you can use pentatonic box 4 at fret four and experiment with all kinds of interesting musical phrases.

When I'm soloing ambient like this I like to use a dirt pedal like my OCD pedal turned way way down. Then I add some echos with my delay pedal.

With a fuzz pedal you can get a tenor saxophone sound going on. Pretty soon you are playing the score to Blade Runner.

Can't Get Enough of That 6/11 Stuff?

Well then have I got the brass tea kettle for you. May I present the 6th string rooted voicing of a 6/11 chord. Move it all over the fretboard like the ambient 6/11 monster that we both know you are. You are magnificent.

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