(hallo it's the finger pain ukulele asker again) so i have read a bunch of answers you've given here that say a good way to figure out music, esp. chords, is to just start playing notes together and see what sounds good. so today i was trying to learn how to play a d7 chord, which is the first bar chord i've learned. i tried playing it and it sounded like dissonant, pitchy...just all-around not like i was doing it right. i tried tuning my ukulele (with a tuner, i don't even know what to listen for if i were to try and tune by ear), pressing harder, putting my ukulele on the floor and pressing each string individually rather than trying to bar, playing each note separately to make sure the strings were ringing.......then i finally went online and watched some videos of other people playing d7 chords. and they all sounded pretty much exactly like what i'd been doing. i was playing the chord right all along and it turns out that, at least to my ear, d7 is just a bad and wrong-sounding chord.
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