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Adding Color to Dominant Chords Moving Chromatically

guitar101 writes
In this lesson we will show you a cool an easy way to look at dominant type chords and how to add color to them. We will add the intervals b9, 9, #9, 11, #11, b13, 13. We will start with 3 dominant chord forms on the inside 4 strings 5, 4, 3, 2 (E7,E9).

Example.1

    E7         E7      E9
---------------------------------
-----5---------9-------12-------- 
-----7---------7-------11--------
-----6---------9-------12--------
-----7---------7-------11--------
---------------------------------
    #1         #2      #3

Most of use already know these dominant forms (I hope anyways) or you better get them down before proceeding. Ok here's the fun part, let's look at the intervals we can choose from. Below you will see the intervals ( b9, 9, #9, 11, #11, b13, 13 ) the 3rd and 5th shown in Example .2 is just adding another 3rd and 5th that's already in the chord so don't get confused. We included them so you could see the intervals moving up the neck chromatically.

Example.2

    E7   b9    9    #9    3rd    11  #11  5th  b13   13
-----------------------------------------------------------
-----5----6----7-----8-----9-----10---11---12---13---14----
-----7-----------------------------------------------------
-----6-----------------------------------------------------
-----7-----------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------

Ok don't panic! Your thinking this is going to be hard right... Not... Don't let a little chord theory scare you. I'm about to show you 10 altered dominant chords counting the one we already did. Check this out.

Example.3

     E7  b9    9    #9    3rd    11   #11   5th   b13   13
--------------------------------------------------------------------
-----5----6----7-----8-----9-----10----11----12----13---14----------
-----7----7----7-----7-----7------7-----7----11----11---11----------
-----6----6----6-----6-----9------9-----9----12----12---12----------
-----7----7----7-----7-----7------7-----7----11----11---11----------
--------------------------------------------------------------------
    #1                    #2                 #3 

NOTE: #1, #2, #3 indicate the chord forms in Example.1
So we end up with these 10 chords.

  • E7
  • E7 b9
  • E9
  • E7 #9
  • E7
  • E7/11 or E7 sus4
  • E7 #11
  • E9
  • E9 #5 or E9 b13
  • E 13
   


 
 

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