Help me spell this chord

[imported_thomasross20]

Not Gertrude????

[imported_flip]

So, when writing down the prog I was fucking about with last night, it should be :-


Em - Em6- Dmaj7- D Kevin

[thing]

That's Bflat#9b5. Obtuse chords get feminine names.....

[imported_flip]

Obtuse chords get feminine names.....

That's because music so often is a representation of life itself

[thing]

Here's a nice prog using Dmaj7, it's the intro to one of my tunes.

-2--------------------------5-----------------
-3----3----3----2----2----2-----------------------
-2----3----2----4----3----2------------------------
-0----4----2----5----5----0---------------------
------3----2-----------------------------------
------4----3----5----5----------------------------

Note the use of Kevin at the end.

[imported_thomasross20]

That sounds really cool... Nice one!

[Sulphent]

Yeah it's just a Dmaj7.

[frankus]

Sorry to be the voice of dissent but how can a root, a fifth and a major seventh be a major chord when it could be used in an example like this:

F7b9 -> Emin6 -> A7b13 -> Dmin maj7 (without a third)


Even if it isn't this, the fact that it's being used with Em in flips example means theres an ambiguity as to whether it's melodic minor or major, here that is being resolved by the D Kevin, but it'd be worth flagging that ambiguity in a concise way IMO.

I mean, where do you stop glossing over omissions? We could called it "F#m b13" played without the root because we're comping with a particularly grumpy bass-player. In that case I'd want to know it was F#m b13 when I came to play solo guitar versions of the piece.

[timmyo]

<some stuff>

:shock: It lives!

:wink:

[frankus]

Blame Radio4

So what's this tele, I've been reading about?