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Topic: Minor Sixth Chords on the E9 neck. |
Gerald Menke
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Stormville NY, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 12:04 pm |
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Hello,
A new artist I am working with has an amazing sense of harmony, and uses m6 chords in his songs among lots of other cool altered and extended chords. I can find the m6 chords on the C6 neck pretty easily, but am having a little more trouble finding them on the E9. I searched the archives but didn't find the dozens of posts on m6 chords that I thought I'd find there. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for reading my post.
Gerald |
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Larry Bell
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Englewood, Florida
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 12:21 pm
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Find sixth chords and flat the third
e.g.,
A+B pedal -- sixth is on the 1st/7th and third is on the 5th/10th with the A pedal. Half pedal the A pedal and you've got an Ami6.
Find minor 7th chords and flat the b7 to get a 6th
e.g.,
A+B is also a minor 7 (F#m7 open) with the b7 on the 4th/8th. Flat the E's to D# and you've got another.
That same F#m7 is at the 10th fret with the E to D# lever. The b7 is on the 1st/7th, so if you happen to have a lever that lowers one or both 1/2 step, that one is also available.
The second example also points up the relationship between mi7b5 (also called half diminished) chords and mi6 chords.
C Eb G A = Cmi6
A C Eb G = Ami7b5
the Imi6 is enharmonic (identical notewise) with the VImi7b5
Hope this wasn't too confusing, but the more notes you add to chords, the more complicate things can become.
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2003 Fessenden S/D-12 8x8, 1969 Emmons S-12 6x6, 1971 Dobro, Standel and Peavey Amps
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Earnest Bovine
From:
Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 12:29 pm
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The two easiest ones on the open strings of 10 string E9 are:
Bm6: no pedals,
strings 1,3,5,6,7,9,10
(also string 2 lowered a halfstep)
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F#m6: using the A and B pedals, and lowering E strings to D#:
strings 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10
(also string 9 lowered to C#)
also Em6 is available if you can play an open string G note; there are others too. |
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Steve Schmidt
From:
Ramsey, MN, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 1:07 pm
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A minor 6th is comprised of a root, flatted 3rd, fifth, and 6th. So here is 4 ways you can do it for a Cm6 chord.
first fret, 10, 9, 7, and 6 (C,Eb,G,A)
6th fret, A and B pedals down, 7,6,5 and 2 (again, C,Eb,G,A)
8th fret, 8, 7 raised half step, 5, 2nd string lowered full step (again, C,Eb,G,A)
10th fret, 9, 8 raised 1/2 step, 6 with b pedal, and 5, (you guessed it, C,Eb,G,A)
hope this helps
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 1:22 pm
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Well, add one more--and actually this is my most frequent choice---3rd fret, AB pedals and B (5 & 10) lower lever. I tune this lever to be an in-tune split with the A pedal--I don't have a tunable split there so I forsake the perfect Bb in lieu of the well tuned C. This is especial cool on my universal tuning because there's no 9th string D so this can be strummed or indisciminately gripped with no boogers. It makes a nice color option next to the m7 one fret up, w/E lower lever.
I use this a lot.
----edited to add what I forgot to mention----the 7th string is your 6 in the m6 in this voicing. [This message was edited by Jon Light on 30 March 2004 at 01:24 PM.] |
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Gerald Menke
From:
Stormville NY, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2004 1:56 pm
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You guys are the best, thanks a lot. Good thing I've been working on wider grips and half pedal A things. Sound so cool.
Gerald |
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