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Five for the Hendrix Chord, E7♯9 ;-) That's E, G♯, B, D, F
by ErroneousBosh 3mo ago
Five for the Hendrix Chord, E7♯9 ;-)
That's E, G♯, B, D, F
- telotortium 3mo agoEvery jazz player knows you can drop the fifth, and the root too if the bass is filling it in. That gives your fingers room to add even crazier extensions
- ErroneousBosh 3mo agoOh man have you seen the Adam Neely video "Seven Level of Jazz Harmony"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz3WR-F_pnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz3WR-F_pnM If not, stop and watch it. But make a cup of tea to enjoy with it first, and maybe put a cloth over your keyboard for when you inevitably splutter tea all over it.
- anentropic 3mo agoI read a pretty good argument once that this chord should really be called a b10 (no one does though...)
- ErroneousBosh 3mo agoWe seem to have a pretty hardcoded preference for using sharp in everything that's not brass and woodwind, don't we?
- anentropic 3mo agoI think it's also ingrained that the chord starts from 3rd and 5th degrees so numbers above 7 are always adding in one of the other degrees. Or that a chord should have at most 'one of each'. The argument was that this chord is unusual in that it's best thought of as having a second modified 3rd, rather than a #9 (raised 2nd) The major-minor-7 chord is another example of the same degree twice... and we don't call that a maj-14 either