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Topic: How is this chord made? |
Gordon Borland
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Posted 21 Jan 2015 1:15 pm |
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There is a beautiful chord at 044 on this link.
I think it should be minor 7th but I would like to know how he made this chord and exactly what it is. Thanks in advance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uddQ0Us6j2k
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Dale Rottacker
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Walla Walla Washington, USA
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2015 4:49 pm Re: How is this chord made?
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| Gordon Borland wrote: |
There is a beautiful chord at 044 on this link.
I think it should be minor 7th |
Actually it's a G minor 6th, not a minor 7th.
The notes are D Bflat E on strings 5,6,8.
G minor 7th would have F note instead of E.
I don't think he's playing a D note, but it would sound about the same if he did.
The harmonic function is 4 chord in key of D. Here the bass is playing C (a commom error) which means you could call the chord C9. |
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Herb Steiner
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Posted 21 Jan 2015 10:04 pm Re: How is this chord made?
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| Earnest Bovine wrote: |
The harmonic function is 4 chord in key of D. Here the bass is playing C (a commom error) which means you could call the chord C9. |
Back in LA we used to call this the "four of four substitution," commonly used in Price's version of "Night Life," but I don't think it's an error if the whole band is playing it! 
I use it to the point of cliche', but the C9 scale is a great one to riff over a Gm regardless of the extension.
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Earnest Bovine
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Posted 21 Jan 2015 10:16 pm Re: How is this chord made?
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| Herb Steiner wrote: |
"four of four substitution," commonly used in Price's version of "Night Life," but I don't think it's an error if the whole band is playing it!
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OK, I plead guilty to overstating my position. I should have called it a cliche and let it go at that.
Actually, as soon as the bass plays C, Gm6 becomes C9 without "the whole band playing" C9, because Gm6 (aka Em7-5) is the same (notes) as C9 with root omitted. |
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Jack Aldrich
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Washington, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 12:19 am
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Then there's the "major of minors", which is to substitute, e.g., a Db7 for a C7 and back to F.
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Franklin
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 2:41 am
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Hit strings 5 6 and 8 no pedals at the 3rd fret and then slide the bar to the 1st fret while pressing the A and B pedals along with lowering the 8th string a half tone.
Last edited by Franklin on 22 Jan 2015 7:21 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 8:36 am
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I'd chart the chord as Gm/C (especially if I'm singing e and d), following the 4th of 4.
(Every Good Bbass Dude knows to play C.) ... because in Desperado, when it gets to that chord it's everyman for himself until they get back home.
This duo gets it just right.
It seems like I'm hearing the Franklin pedal change on the last note of the lyric? |
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Gordon Borland
From:
San Antonio, Texas, USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2015 4:46 pm Thank you.
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Thank you guys for the help.
I got it to fit and it sounded so good I looked around to see who played that!
Gordon. |
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