Augmented chords

[battery]

Anyone ever use these crazy chords? I was looking through my back transcriptions in GT and they are very rarely used by anyoone. How about yourselves?
I myself dont really use them a lot they sound a bit sour to my ears.

[madeh]

They are used a fair bit in some big band songs I did back when I was in high school, would usually resolve to something more simple. :?

[imported_adrianclark]

I like using a 7#5 to spiff up a blues progression... use it in the 4th bar of a 12-bar, so you get a nice smooth chromatic movement from I7#5 to IV9.

Also the straight augmented triad is great for that minor key sentimentality (Stairway to Heaven is one example, Michelle another) or pseudo Spanish/Latin-American stuff. It's the Im-Vaug movement that does the trick, although the Vaug could also be interpreted as Im/maj7.


adrian

[Gojirosan]

I like using a 7#5 to spiff up a blues progression... use it in the 4th bar of a 12-bar, so you get a nice smooth chromatic movement from I7#5 to IV9.

Also the straight augmented triad is great for that minor key sentimentality (Stairway to Heaven is one example, Michelle another) or pseudo Spanish/Latin-American stuff. It's the Im-Vaug movement that does the trick, although the Vaug could also be interpreted as Im/maj7.


adrian

And not for the first time, one of Adrian's posts makes my brain bleed...

Guess what I voted in the poll... :roll: ops:

[frankus]

was it: "yeah I use them occasionally... what's yer problem?" .. me either.. cos it aint there

[imported_adrianclark]

And not for the first time, one of Adrian's posts makes my brain bleed...

Sorry Dave!

Just in case anyone was baffled by the theory, here's what I meant. This is the first few chords of a 12-bar blues, four beats per chord...

5 x 5 6 x x (A7)

x 5 4 5 x x (D7)

5 x 5 6 x x (A7)

5 x 5 6 6 x (A7#5)

x 5 4 5 5 x (D9)

etc...

And the other use I was thinking of would be something like Am -> Eaug...

x x 7 5 5 5

x x 6 5 5 7


Adrian

[Paulo2]

Augmented Chord Watch
There's a nice augmented chord at the end of each 12 bar on the Allman Bros' version of Stormy Monday.
The beginning of Chuck Berry's No Partucular Place to Go has a pseudo car horn effect courtesy of the Aug chord.
Buddy Holly's Raining in My Heart features the Augmented 2nd chord in on the verse.
Leslie Gore's It's My Party has the aug as the 2nd chord in the chorus.

Anymore?

Paulo

[imported_Buzz]

I dont have a clue what they are. ops:

can soom one please tell me?

[Paulo2]

The augmented chord has a raised 5th degree. In a C maj chord this would be the G note raised to G#.

Try this;

-----Cmaj--------Caug----------Amin-------C7
E................................................. ..........................
B.........1............1...................1...... .........1....................
G........0............1....................2...... .........3...................
D........2............2....................2...... ........2.....................
A........3............3.....................0..... ........3....................
E................................................. ..........................

In this case the augmented chord has created a chromatic movement on the G string.

Paulo

[frankus]

they go nicely with a couple of Harmonic minor modes

EDIT: I meant harmonic minor not melodic ops: