10/18/2023 0 Comments B flat major 9 guitar chordThis is usually used in place of a boring ol’ C chord, and it gives it some interesting color. The easiest to understand is the add9 chord. To do this, we will go back to our two-octave C major scale, with numbers underneath:ġ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 The Add9 Chord The chord can sound jazzy and mysterious, or beautiful and disturbing. When we add notes to these basic chords, interesting things happen. Today, we will be taking the most familiar, the major and minor triads, and adding notes to those. If you remember, basic harmony of Western music is built upon the triad, or three-note chords. Being this is a pretty guitar-centric site, we’ll do our best and stick to guitar stuff here. These types of chords don’t have to have nine notes, although they can if you play piano. 9th Chords? But I Don’t Have A 9-String Guitar! The Seymour Duncan Jazz pickup was used for all examples. *I made this word up, and trademarked it. These days, being an amazing rhythm player is downplayed in favor of other aspects of guitar playing, but understanding some small things about chords will only let our solos stand out more, and give us more interesting things to play over. If you haven’t read it yet, I would also suggest reading my article about 7th chords, as this article will build on those concepts. Yes, it is hard to believe that at one time, the idea of sweep picking lydian-dominant arps at 200 bpm was unheard of, and the idea of having a great chord vocabulary (and being able to improvise with those chords) was essential to be considered a great guitarist that could work steadily and support all of those spotlight-stealing brass players. Contrary to where modern guitar has gone, it started life as a rhythm instrument, bashing out chords on a large archtop (or larchtop*) in the back of the band.
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