Jimmy Page’s chord-recycling trick unlocks surprising new guitar sounds

Recycling familiar open guitar chord shapes in different fretboard positions can produce surprising new voicings, a technique used by Jimmy Page, according to a Guitarist magazine lesson. It details five recycled shapes, including Fmaj7add6/A used in Led Zeppelin's Ten Years Gone, two Fadd2 voicings, a Cadd2 used by Supergrass, Pretenders and Rush, Steve Howe uses one in Yes's Starship Trooper, and a jangly E7. The lesson encourages guitarists to prioritize sound over complex chord names, noting add2 chords retain the third while sus2 chords replace it, and that recycled shapes yield familiar-looking but unexpected voicings.