Your guitar is in standard tuning.
Place your fingers on the second frets of the bottom E string and the G string. Strum all six strings. You have a D6add9 chord.
The bottom four strings produce a D major chord. The open B string provides the sixth note in a D major chord, making it a D6 chord.
I wondered why it is not called a D6add2, because the open E string provides the second note in the major scale. But of course the ninth note is also the second note, just an octave higher.
The E in the D6add9 comes from the top E string. It is the highest pitched note in the chord, and presumably that is why it is called D6add9 rather than D6add2.
Am I right?
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Edit - I think you’re right
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
It must be A because there are 2 of them!
What are inversions called after the 3rd?
Sorry, I am not helping
That's iff I am looking at it correctly
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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cos it don't really make sense
if a chord has a 3rd and 4th, I'd consider that 4th to be an 11th because nothing is suspended
at first glance it looks to me like A sus4 add9/13 in 2nd inversion
low to high
E - 5th [placing the A chord in 2nd inv]
A - Root
D - sus4
A - Root
B - add9
F# - add13
if you follow this chord with an A chord using the 'G' shape fingering, you'll see the note D resolve to the C# [on the A string]
all that tension generated by all that dissonance releases..
it's that 'sigh of relief' that happens when the sun chord is followed be a triad
I think it really sounds rather nice
I noticed that when following this chord with an A triad does give a kind of V -> I feeling too..
partly because of the move in the bass from E to A, and partly because it contains bits of an E sus4 7
if we considered it to be V in A we get E sus4 7 add9
E - Root
A - Sus4
D - Minor 7th [making this a dominant 7 chord]
A - Sus4 [having the sus4 occur twice in a chord is a bit iffy.. there'd be marks deducted.. lol]
B - 5th
F# - add9
follow this chord with an E7 and then follow that with an A, this chord really starts making sense
my vote is for E sus4 7 add9 in A