Chord Of The Week 11/2/17 Church Chords - an A5add9add#11 in the key of C#minor

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Back to the sequence of chords I used in church playing the song "We belong to the day" (the chords but not the song are demo'ed in the video below), here's the second chord in the progression C#m A E B, where after the first chord C#m9 x4x440 I play 

A5add9add#11: x0x440

Which is the new bass note A x0xxxx followed by the same top three notes from the C#minor chord carried over xxx440, played as before as an arpeggio on strings 1, 2 then 3. The top string E xxxxx0 is the fifth of the A chord, the second string D# xxxx4x is the sharp eleventh, and the third string B xxx4xx is the ninth. The parent scale from which the 5th, 9th and #11th are derived is A Lydian A B C# D# E F# G#, which is the 4th mode of the E major scale, the parent scale whose 6th mode provides this song's home scale of C# Aeolian (also known as C# natural minor or C# descending melodic minor).

The chord can be seen and heard at 0:04 in this video

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