Chord Of The Week 14/5/16 - an Ebadd9 from Purple Rain by Prince

bigjon

Completing our journey through the Purple Rain chord progression in tribute to His Purpleness, here's the fourth and final chord in the intro progression after the last three weeks' Bbadd9/D x(1)0311, Gm7add11: 3x0311 and Fadd9: 135211. This one's also a bit of a stretch, but it eschews the similar-sounding Ebsus2 x68866 to generate the extra lushness of the 9th interval on the third string ringing against the the 3rd interval on the second string a tone above it - whenever you play a closed-position chord which contains an interval of less than a minor third between one string and the next, your tendons will often have a price to pay! 

Ebadd9: x 6 8 10 8 6

You can see Wendy Melvoin playing the chord in the live recording that was used as the track for the record at 0:44 in this video. Next week I'll do another Prince chord.

https://bongorama.com/2014/04/17/the-original-prince-live-performance-as-recorded-for-the-album-purple-rain/

bigjon

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