Chord Of The Week 30/4/16 - A Gm7add11 from 'Purple Rain' by Prince

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Continuing our journey through the Purple Rain chord progression in tribute to His Purpleness, here's the second chord in the intro after last week's opening Bbadd9/D x(1)0311. It's the same chord on the top four strings but with a different bass note, of a G which is the relative minor of the home key of Bb. This is a good idea for generating interesting minor chord extensions: find a major chord you like an see how you like it when you change the bass note to the one that is 3 semitones / frets down :-)

Gm7add11: 3x0311

You can see Wendy Melvoin playing the chord in the live recording that was used as the track for the record at 0:37 in this video. Next week I'll do the third chord from the same Purple Rain intro progression.
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