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Sep 2 2009, 03:34 PM
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Hey muris,
I have recently encounterd these chords on a song Ab2 Gb2 What are those? How do you make them? Thanks in advance  Alejandro |
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Sep 2 2009, 03:40 PM
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Hi Alejandro.
Ab2 chord can be a lot of things and that one is tricky to explain totally, people have been arguing a lot about what is it, the 2 chord. In this case it can be Abadd9 (9 is same note as 2, only one octave higher) or AbSus2 which is suspended 3rd (C or Cb) and added 2nd instead which is Bb note. You can apply same thing for Bb2 chord ofc. Most likely it's about inversion cause 2 and 9 do not sound the same, compared to root note, in 2 there's 2nd interval which can often sound kind a dissonant while in 9 there's major 9th interval and if you add 5thin the chord as well it'll sound very doable to our ears. Let me give you notes for Ab tho: Abadd9= Ab, C, Eb and Bb. AbSus2 = Ab, Bb and Eb. Hope it helps, let me know if I missed something.
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Sep 2 2009, 04:11 PM
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F#altered chord is kind of dominant altered chord
where you can have altered 5th or 9th per example. So if you see just F#alt it doesn't actually tells you everything about this chord but most of the time it's used for 7/+9 chord, F# 7/+9 would be: F#, A#, C#, E and G##. Guitar players usually do not play 5th and here's how they play it most of the time: F# on A string 9th fret, A# on D string 8th fret, E on G string 9th fret and G## on B string 10th fret. Once more, in alt chord you can also have altered 5th, -5 or +5, depends.
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Sep 2 2009, 04:18 PM
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Hi guys - and sorry Muris, can't resist butting in (as ever)
As an addition you can also see it as the related sus4 where the sus 2 is the first inversion if you go from the 4th of the sus4. i.e csus4=fsus2. and same that the sus 4 is the 2nd inversion of the sus 2 from the 5th of the sus2. BTW - sure Muris will add more to this but - alt often implies an altered 5th - sharpened or flattened, usually of the dominant chord/scale often from ascending 7th of the melodic minor scale. In an extended alt chord you would get the b9th - which you may want to look at viz Muris's great explanation of sus2 earlier. The 7b5 chord is one that is used a lot in jazz. - Muris beat me to it 
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Sep 2 2009, 04:20 PM
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QUOTE (tonymiro @ Sep 2 2009, 05:18 PM)  Hi guys - and sorry Muris, can't resist butting in (as ever) As an addition you can also see it as the related sus4 where the sus 2 is the first inversion if you go from the 4th of the sus4. i.e csus4=fsus2. and same that the sus 4 is the 2nd inversion of the sus 2 from the 5th of the sus2. BTW - sure Muris will add more to this but - alt often implies an altered 5th - sharpened or flattened, usually of the dominant chord/scale often from ascending 7th of the melodic minor scale. In an extended alt chord you would get the b9th - which you may want to look at viz Muris's great explanation of sus2 earlier. The 7b5 chord is one that is used a lot in jazz. - Muris beat me to it Have nothing to add, you just filled what I missed, cheers Tony.
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Sep 2 2009, 04:24 PM
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Thanks alot for the answers, They really helped
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Sep 2 2009, 04:26 PM
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QUOTE (Alejandro osorno @ Sep 2 2009, 05:24 PM) Thanks alot for the answers, They really helped Cheers.
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