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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 19:38:44 GMT
The way I play, I need all the help I can get. I'm playing away and thinking that I'm not progressing/getting anywhere. Then I strum some chords and think that they kinda sound similar. So.....Im trying to find more ways of playing minor chords....and I reckon that I can play two major seventh chords that give the essence/sound of a minor chord. I've checked the notes of these chords and they don't match exactly the notes of my minor chord......but to me they sound near enough.
So.....for whatever minor chord that I want to play.......I think of the minor 3rd and minor 6th of the root note....and play them as major 7th chords.
Example........I want to play C minor........I go up a minor 3rd (Eb) and play Eb Maj 7.....sounds C minorish. Or go up a minor 6th (Ab) and play Ab Maj 7.....and that sounds C minorish too.
Apologies to all you more competent players on here. But to me it might be my introduction to inversions.
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Riverman
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Post by Riverman on Oct 3, 2017 21:34:14 GMT
C minor is: C - Eb - G Eb Maj 7 is: Eb - G - Bb - D Ab Maj 7 is: Ab - C - Eb - G So the Ab Maj 7 could be thought of as a C minor chord (since it contains all three notes) with an added b6th in the bass. That would make it an inversion of C minor, though I'm not sure which one - 3rd maybe? The Eb Maj 7 contains two of the notes from C minor (the flat third and the fifth) but as there's no C it can't be a C chord, no matter how it's inverted. However, add a C to it and it becomes a C minor 9 (first inversion if the Eb is the bass note). And that's just about the outer limit of my chord theory knowledge. I'm sure a real musician will be along in a minute to explain things properly...
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Post by creamburmese on Oct 10, 2017 18:02:56 GMT
I too am waiting for the real musician to show up! However I can say that Riverman appears to be good on inversions If the third is in the bass it's a first inversion, the 5th it's a second inversion, and the 7th is in the bass it's a third inversion... I wonder if there's a 4th inversion for weird jazz chords?
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Post by andyhowell on Oct 11, 2017 6:36:19 GMT
Life is too short ;-)
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