pretty chords

[king_xanadu]

im working on some songs and wanted to know some pretty sounding chords

[Murder_Worship]

a 7 chord with the 4h added in, i could be wrong but i believe it is called a 7sus4. im not sure tho, but it sounds good IMO

[Deacon_Blues]

Dude, there's like a million chords out there.... You got to ask for something much more specific to get a decent answer here I guess. There's chords that aren't "pretty" on their own but sound great in the right context, and vice versa.

This is one way to get you started, though: Play a random chord with e.g. 4 notes on a keyboard or a guitar. Just choose any notes. Then play that chord slowly as an arpeggio. If there are notes that doesn't sound good, move those notes, one at a time, a half step up or down. You'll likely get a nice sounding chord pretty quickly. Then analyze the chord so you know what notes you're playing and their relationship to the root. Find out what that chord is called and write down it. Then repeat the exercise over and over until you've found a few nice chords that you can experiment with.

[DaneB]

I personally like 9ths. They seem to prettify things.

[Etbass]

Deacon Blues is lying - ask for pretty chords and you'll get them.
Get a high C --16--18-----------------
G-23--14--16--16--------16---18-------------------
D-19--14--14--14--------15---18---------------------
A-22----------15----------------------------
E-0---14--15-------------15--17----------------
Gma9 G6 Ama13
F#m7 Cma7 G13

Chords with Harmonics
-<4>---<5>-<5>-------------------------
-<5>---<5>-<5>-------------------------
--3------6----3---------------------
-<5>--------<3>---------------------
Cma9 Ebma7 ...Actually, almost any bass note with those two harmonics on 5th fret is gonna sound rad.

PS I'm just joking Deacon Blues - everything you said was dead on and awesome - that's such a mad way of building chords. I just added it to my practice routine now. You rock!
Cma9

[Etbass]

Hmm the chord names didn't really get in place... work it out.