A Player's Guide to Chords and Harmony: Music Theory for Real-World Musicians (Backbeat Music Essentials) by Jim Aikin

Author:Jim Aikin [Aikin, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-08-17T17:08:00+00:00

Figure 6-2. In theory, the stacked 3rds in Figure 6-1 could be collapsed into a single octave, like this. However, such a structure makes it difficult to hear and identify the various notes of the chord, so the voicing in Figure 6-1 should be considered closed, not open.

9TH CHORDS

The first new note added in Figure 6-1 is the 9th, which is a 3rd above the 7th. Because the 9th is the same scale step as the 2nd, it's a modal step, which means it comes in two basic flavors: major and minor. Accordingly, the menu of 9th chords includes both major 9th and minor 9th types. Chords with an augmented 9th are also used. Since there are seven different 7th chords, and any of three different 9ths can be stacked on any of them, you might think I'm about to list 21 different 9th chords. Some of the chords that would be in such a list are in common use, but others are almost never heard. The most often-used 9th chords are shown in Figure 6-3.

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