Guitar chord in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments. For example, in the guitar (like other stringed instruments but unlike the piano), open-string notes are not fretted and so require less hand-motion. Thus chords that contain open notes are more easily played and hence more frequently played in popular music, such as folk music. Many of the most popular tunings—standard tuning, open tunings, and new standard tuning—are rich in the open notes used by popular chords. Open tunings allow major triads to be played by barring one fret with only one finger, using the finger like a capo. On guitars
The Word and the Flesh rock music, even the same noise-rock. "The Word and the Flesh" sounds as if the listener's head had been squashed in the middle amplifier, so to speak." The album was released in mid-September 1991 by Restless Records in the United States, and by Rough Trade Records in Germany. The album cover, photographed by Geoffrey Notkin, features Poss' red SC-1 guitar, manufactured by G&L Musical Instruments. His other guitars of the same model had featured on other album sleeves by the band, and in 2009 Poss said that "the metonymic significance of my SC-1 reached its zenith when the guitar was