Difficult Chord of the Day

midiman1962

GuyBoden said:

Here's a nice Melodic minor chord with the 5th in the bass, that works well with the Melodic minor scale.

The chord is shown in three positions on the fretboard.

I can see a green version and a yellow version - i am colourblind so can't see the other

GuyBoden

midiman1962 said:

GuyBoden said:

Here's a nice Melodic minor chord with the 5th in the bass, that works well with the Melodic minor scale.

The chord is shown in three positions on the fretboard.

I can see a green version and a yellow version - i am colour blind so can't see the other

Good point, the other chord's notes are: G C Eb B.

GuyBoden

A nice sounding EbMaj7#5

The 3rd mode of the C Melodic minor scale, the Eb Lydian Augmented sounds good with this chord.

GuyBoden

Today's chord could have a few names, it could be a G/C slash chord inversion (GMaj with C in the bass), a GMaj add 11 inversion or depending on context, a CMaj7 add 9 no 3rd inversion.

This chord has a beautiful sound, IMHO.

Ché

GuyBoden said:Today's chord could have a few names, it could be a G/C slash chord inversion (GMaj with C in the bass), a GMaj add 11 inversion or depending on context, a CMaj7 add 9 no 3rd inversion.

This chord has a beautiful sound, IMHO.

I feel with some of these chords you'd need a root bass underneath to get the chord feeling stated as the chord name. 

This one to me is a D dorian chord as without a third it doesn't have any grounding to C major and the 9 isn't stacked as a regular extension in the higher octave. (as far as my theory knowledge goes, I could be wrong). 

Really enjoying this thread, thanks for taking your time to post and share your knowledge

Bezzer

Ché said:

GuyBoden said:Today's chord could have a few names, it could be a G/C slash chord inversion (GMaj with C in the bass), a GMaj add 11 inversion or depending on context, a CMaj7 add 9 no 3rd inversion.

This chord has a beautiful sound, IMHO.

I feel with some of these chords you'd need a root bass underneath to get the chord feeling stated as the chord name. 

This one to me is a D dorian chord as without a third it doesn't have any grounding to C major and the 9 isn't stacked as a regular extension in the higher octave. (as far as my theory knowledge goes, I could be wrong). 

Really enjoying this thread, thanks for taking your time to post and share your knowledge

I think I'm with you there, with no other context I think I would just hear that as D7#5

GuyBoden

Yes, I agree, the CMaj add 9 no 3rd chord is very ambiguous and could have many uses, which I see as a good thing. The name depends on the context.

Inversions of GMaj/C is probably the easiest name, because the notes are GBD/C.

Here's a few more inversions of the CMaj add 9 no 3rd chord.

GuyBoden

Here's some Lydian chord inversions, using FMaj7#4 with no 5th.

I'm omitting the 5th in the chord, because I feel it interferes with the Lydian's #4 sound.

GuyBoden

This is my fav sounding Lydian FMaj7#4 chord.

I think it sounds good because the 3rd and 4th notes of the chord are next to each other and there's no 5th.

If a 5th was in the chord, it would interfere with the Lydian chord's character note 4th sound, IMHO.

The chord is shown in all positions on the fretboard diagram.

GuyBoden

Here's a fourth voicing (Quartal), that's an inversion of the standard fourth type chord.

It's not very difficult to play and can easily be played as a shape moved along the fretboard.

The concept of inverting 4th voicings creates a more interesting sound (IMHO).

As an easier alternative to playing the shape at the 15th fret, you can play the shape starting on the "G" bassnote at the 3rd fret.

GuyBoden

Here's a very nice sounding Lydian chord shape.

I see/hear this as a stack of 5ths with a major 3rd on the bottom.

GuyBoden

Here's  a chord scale of Quartal (4ths) chord inversions.

Try the voicing using the notes FBGC, but at the 7th fret, it's rather nice sounding.

Ambiguously, they can be seen as an inverted 1st-4th-9th-3rd note voicing of a Major scale or just a plain 1st-4th-5th-9th of a Major scale.

Obviously, the shapes after the 12th fret can be played on lower frets, but using all 24 frets allows me to conveniently display all 7 inversions of the chord.

Have fun...........

GuyBoden

Here's a nice voicing for a F6/9 chord. The root is on top, no 5th.

GuyBoden

Here's a nice chord:

Yes, it's me on my headless.

GuyBoden

Here's some nice sounding Quartal voicings, they could be seen as rearranged quartal voicings or the 1st-5th-9th-11th notes of Major modes.

GuyBoden

Here are some nice Allan Holdsworth type chords, the chord with the notes "DAGE" at the 10th fret is the opening chord for his "Looking Glass" song, but a bit easier to voice.

GuyBoden

It's been a while, but here is a very nice sounding CMaj9 chord voicing without a third, so C Ionian or even C Melodic minor scale might fit over it, a very ambiguous open sound.

This Chord voicing could be applied to many things.

GuyBoden

A nice chord to play for C Melodic Minor scale.

https://i.ibb.co/KK92q8Y/Chord-of-the-Day-25-02-2023.png

AK99

JerkMoans said:

What fresh hell is this thread? Aargh.

Yes.
It's like the cryptic crosswords in the broadsheets with nigh-on impossible finger stretching for added inadequacy

Supportact

By coincidence I've been learning about chord extensions and naming chords so this has been quite a useful thread to read through.