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Topic: What's The Chord? |
Jason Lynch
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Posted 17 Aug 2012 8:01 am |
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Quick Technical Question.
Yesterday, I was fooling around in the key of E, 7th Fret with the A & B pedals down. I slid down to Fret 5 with the pedals still down and lowered my E's, then released everything to get my A. Sounds nice, I thought.
Question: What was the Chord in the middle? A, B and E's Lowered?
Thanks in Advance, 'cos every time I try and work it out, I get a different answer....!
I'm a relative, beginner, by the way
Jason |
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Paul Wade
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mundelein,ill
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Posted 17 Aug 2012 8:14 am
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I think you slid down to a D chord then lowered your
E's would be a E7th ??
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Michael Hummel
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 17 Aug 2012 8:23 am
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If I'm reading it right, he's on the 5th fret playing a D major, but with flatted 5ths.
So I think it is D b5 (as opposed to Db5 which is Db with no thirds).
Mike
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 17 Aug 2012 8:23 am
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Hi, Jason, assuming you're staying within the string 10-8-6-5-4-3 string groups, that "two frets back from pedals down" position with the knee engaged is giving you a dominant 9th chord (relative to the two frets higher root) with the scale tones 2,3,b7. There's a whole lot in that area- try moving down chromatically, releasing the lever and sliding back up one fret, then back down, arpeggios, etc. Fun stuff.
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Jason Lynch
From:
Essex, United Kingdom
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Posted 17 Aug 2012 8:40 am
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Thanks, That sounds about right. Such prompt responses, Guys.
Jason |
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Michael Hummel
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 17 Aug 2012 8:42 am
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Oh I'm such an idiot...I didn't relate it to the root key, which I think is A in this case.
I agree it is an E9th.
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Tim Heidner
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Groves, TX
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Posted 17 Aug 2012 12:26 pm
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Hey! That's my Junior Brown chord, only he does it with a slant on the guitsteel. He uses it in 'My Wife Thinks You're Dead'.  |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 17 Aug 2012 12:37 pm
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| Oh I'm such an idiot...I didn't relate it to the root key, which I think is A in this case. |
Not necessarily. I see it, as written, as him playing in the key of E and using the chord as a passing chord to get to the 4 chord (A). I use that move quite a bit to get from a 1 to a 4. Of course, I guess it can also be used to move from the 5 back to the 1 (in this case it WOULD be in the key of A), although I can not remember me ever doing it. I will try it at tonight's gig when I am tuning/warming up and see how it works.
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Michael Hummel
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Posted 17 Aug 2012 12:42 pm
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Of course it depends on which way he was going (back to the I or up to the IV).
But I think the consensus here is that I AM necessarily an idiot!
Mike
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Richard Sinkler
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Posted 17 Aug 2012 12:51 pm
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He opened up the conversation saying he was in the key of E. That was the give-away for me. 
And, you're NOT an idiot.
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Richard Sinkler
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Posted 18 Aug 2012 5:23 am
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Michael, I played that chord moving from a 5 back to a one like you mentioned, and Yes, it works great for that too. In fact I use it often for that chord change. That is one of those things that I have been doing for so long that I never think about it.
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Larry Bressington
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Nebraska
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Posted 19 Aug 2012 7:12 pm
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9th.
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