Pearl Jam - "Garden": What's the 3rd chord in the chorus?

[DaveC]

The chord that rings right when Eddie sings "bound". Some tabs online say F, some say F/C (x33210). It definitely is neither of those, and it sounds like the bass note is a D.

Anyone know what this chord actually is?

 

[U2DMfan]

Am-G-D

that's what it sounds like to me

D major

of course, how he's playing that D, is probably some kind of variation.
The bass is D and the melody sounds like it ends on D/F#-which D major

I've seen it transcribed as just
Am-G, with the D on the bass over the continuing G

I think it's a Dmaj though

 

[DaveC]

It almost sounds to me like it's just hitting the open strings on a guitar tuned down to DADGAD (but obviously the rest of the song is unplayable in that tuning). If it indeed is a Dmaj, the low E is most certainly dropped to D on at least one of the guitars. But then that screws up the G that comes right before it!

 

[U2DMfan]

Yeah, I considered drop D but I don't know of any other PJ songs played in drop D.
I guess it's certainly possible they used it on this song.

You would just fret the G as
E-x
B-0
G-0
D-5
A-5
D-5

 

[DaveC]

You would just fret the G as
E-x
B-0
G-0
D-5
A-5
D-5

Of course you would Good thing I got my brain back since I typed that post

 

[pacemaker]

Yeah, I considered drop D but I don't know of any other PJ songs played in drop D.
I guess it's certainly possible they used it on this song.

You would just fret the G as
E-x
B-0
G-0
D-5
A-5
D-5

Pearl Jam has used a lot of open-tunings throughout their career. Open-D, Open-G.

This is a great Pearl Jam tab/guitar site:
Given To Wail 2.0 - The Mike McCready Page

 

[Acrobat08]

Pearl Jam has used a lot of open-tunings throughout their career. Open-D, Open-G.

This is a great Pearl Jam tab/guitar site:
Given To Wail 2.0 - The Mike McCready Page

That is a great site for PJ tabs. The tab book for the Ten album is horrendous. There are lots of errors in it. Garden is one of the songs that is not correct.

 

[DaveC]

I figured it out. It's an F/C:

1
1
2
3
3
0

Standard tuning.

This chord has been my nemesis for a long time.

I figured out the first chord to A Hard Day's Night by ear sooner than this, and this one is that easy. For fuck's sakes.