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Musical info query--not Xmas related
Dec. 24th, 2005 10:33 amOK, for any active musicians out there (including the one whose parents play chrodal producing instruments) or the percussionist who may have picked up some music theory from his parents but he doesn't read this anyway...
higher chords:
I presume 9ths 11ths, 13ths are always added on to 7th chords. Or, rather, 4 note chords. This is question #1: I'm looking at a book that adds 9ths onto 6th and Maj7 chords. Is this done anywhere else but jazz? (Book is Improvising Jazz by Coker).
....which means question #1.5 might be: is the 7th note always present when you add 9ths, 11th, 13ths? I assume it would sound very unbalanced/'gappy' if you didn't.
Question #2: Book also demo'ed adding 11th and 13ths on top of 9ths. Again, is that common, or a jazz method.
Query 3: Ditto for augmented and diminished 9ths, and augmented 11ths.
Don't some of these start to sound crowded?
Query 4: How come more beginners books on chord creation do not cover suspended 4ths? Why not just say "You can have a major third from the root, or diminish it for a minor....or augment it which means you forget the third and add the 4th". Does the suspended 4th sound that odd for rock or folk?
I know....Master Fiddler would say, "Why don't you play it and find out how it sounds to YOU?". Then he'd sigh and shake his head.
Music seems to be the art of learning the line between "that's innovative" and "y'know, there's a reason why nobody uses that chord shape, at least not THERE".
higher chords:
I presume 9ths 11ths, 13ths are always added on to 7th chords. Or, rather, 4 note chords. This is question #1: I'm looking at a book that adds 9ths onto 6th and Maj7 chords. Is this done anywhere else but jazz? (Book is Improvising Jazz by Coker).
....which means question #1.5 might be: is the 7th note always present when you add 9ths, 11th, 13ths? I assume it would sound very unbalanced/'gappy' if you didn't.
Question #2: Book also demo'ed adding 11th and 13ths on top of 9ths. Again, is that common, or a jazz method.
Query 3: Ditto for augmented and diminished 9ths, and augmented 11ths.
Don't some of these start to sound crowded?
Query 4: How come more beginners books on chord creation do not cover suspended 4ths? Why not just say "You can have a major third from the root, or diminish it for a minor....or augment it which means you forget the third and add the 4th". Does the suspended 4th sound that odd for rock or folk?
I know....Master Fiddler would say, "Why don't you play it and find out how it sounds to YOU?". Then he'd sigh and shake his head.
Music seems to be the art of learning the line between "that's innovative" and "y'know, there's a reason why nobody uses that chord shape, at least not THERE".
