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Which is usually a byproduct of:
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ensuring your guitar is set up properly. A poorly set-up guitar - where the neck is not properly set for the string pull on it, the action isn’t the right height and the intonation (i.e., string length) isn’t correct - can make chords up and down the neck sound off
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poor/beginner’s technique - sorry, but it’s true. When you grab the strings for a chords, you can pull them out of a true straight (hey, I have fat fingers! I got to get them crowded in there somehow!
). The more experienced you get, the more likely you will finger chords more accurately.
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You’d think after 15 years I’d have it sorted out.
No matter how well your guitar is set up and how nicely you fret the strings you are still placing a slight stretch on the fretted string. That means that you have to compromise with the various open chords as they use different combinations of fretted and open strings. For some reason I’ve always been able to clearly hear this when I’m playing but if I listen back to a recording of myself, I don’t notice it. It may be something to do with being physically attached to the sound source.