diminished 4th are you sure Greg? what about the overtones in the sub octave of the root while adding the 9th to a G# minor?
Honest question, if you can't figure out the key of the song, what use is the information going to be to you?
G#minoradd9dim4
Anyone know wat key these chords would be in?
e-2--2--4
b-4--2--7
g-4--4--6
d-2--4--4
a-2--2--4
d-2--2--4
An a minor scale sounds pretty gd over it. not sure wether thats the key tho, im not too gd with theory at all
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For me, as soon as I hear the first chord, which I write as" E∆7(no 5) ", it doesn't matter what chords you play after that, I'm feeling E major.
You can play any note over any chord and it will sound great, it's just a matter of how you do it. C# can sound super-musical over a C chord in the right place in a certain song. There are no notes you can't use at any time.
I personally never, ever think scales when I play or solo. What I do is an adult (I hope) version of a kid going "tra-la-la", no deeper than that. "Playing" music should be like when you were a kid a were "playing" sandbox, no cerebral stuff.
I heard an odd concept: when you play a note, it's the note you play after it that makes it sound good or bad.
I had a guitarist friend who died. He was a gigging fool for a long time, didn't know much theory but was good enough to play with the Brecker Bros when he was 19. He once told me of a basic philosophy: he said that if you hit a "bad" note, either go up or down one fret. He said that their were gigs when he played like that all night!
also in the first chord he is playing is nothing but e and b which are 1 and 5 in E major. he adds a D# which in E major is a maj 7th note.
E major 7 is a correct chord for the key but the chord he is playing is not (without the 3rd or G#) a Major 7 chord, it is a 5 chord with an added 7.
that being said dinty it sounds alot like a Major 7 chord so i understand the slight differences are subtle.
6 or half -dozen lol
but what he didn't tell you was that going up or down one fret from a bad note puts you in key
if you are playing a "bad" note your typically out of key
if you are playing a "good" note your typically in key
notes "outside" of a key that sound good leading up to a correct/"good" sounding note are called passing notes or leading tones. (aka the "blues" scale)
The chord I wrote was E∆7(no 5)... I meant E∆7(no 3)...
note: the "∆" is the same as "maj" if anybody is wondering. So E∆7 is the same as Emaj7, it's just faster to write.
So I owe you one, actually three (5 minus 3).
All dead on.
It should be noted too that there are times when you can play a "bad note" and not resolve it and it can sound fine.
I played with an old jazz pianist and when he saw a C chord he'd be playing clusters of notes around C and it was amazing what "bad " notes he could use that sounded musically cool.
I think the secret isn't "what note?" but "when?".