Nice chord I took from Tchaikovsky’s String Quintet. It’s a bit of a stretch, and you have to fret a couple of notes with the tip of the little finger, but it’s worth it.
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Nice chord I took from Tchaikovsky’s String Quintet. It’s a bit of a stretch, and you have to fret a couple of notes with the tip of the little finger, but it’s worth it.
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Simple and Sound..thanks
“doh”, yes I will turn my brain on next time. D it is.
Yes, I get you. Just wondered if you realised C# and Db are the same note!
nice, then you get Amaj and Bmaj triads in the scale too… relating back to the post on triads.
Well it was a conscious choice – at first I decided I liked the b13, since then there’s two options for resolving to the third of the B chord (up from the b13 or down from the b7). I’d made a vamp going between the two chords (not playing the lower B, otherwise my hand might have just dropped off!) and then messed around with the different sounds. The more I hear it, the more I like the 13 better than the b13.
C#/Db – you mean D, right?
The second mode of melodic minor works nice over this. If you’re using F# dominant chord then it’s F#13(sus)b9. Scale is F# G A B C# D# E F#
1 b2 b3 4 5 6 b7, but better to think of it like this: 1 b9 #9 4 5 6 b7. It’s a dominant function but a sus chord, no third.
This sparked some messing around with the sound of that chord. Thinking of it as the V, then two scales work over the top of it for me
F# G A B C# Db E (with the minor 3rd of the F#, darker)
F# G A# B C# Db E (with the major 3rd of the F#, brighter)
I like the way the sus sound gives you the choice of scales and it’s different to the usual thought process of V(alt) = melodic minor.
Thanks for setting me down that road. Don’t know what anyone else thinks…??
Yep, that works, too. Hadn’t thought of it that way. Ta :)
Mike, looking at your take on the chord (“it’s a bit like…”) I see it a bit different – I figure this is a V(alt)-I resolution. The first chord is F# sus4 b9/B (E=7th, G=b9, B=sus4, C#=5th, F#=root). What ya reckon?
p.s. I am one of those obsessive types who debates the name of chords for hours on end, honest :o)
Ooouch.. Repetitivestrainski!