Dave Phillips wrote: > rosea grammostola wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Steve Fosdick >> <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> >> The numbers refer not to the actual note played but to it's place in >> the scale. What the person replying was saying was that 7 chord is >> played by using the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th elements of the scale with >> the 7th one flattenned a semitone. The maj7 chord is the same but the >> 7th note is not flattenned. >> >> Now you asked specifically about F7 and Fmaj7 so in this case the >> scale >> to which those numbers refer is the one that starts on 'F' so the >> notes >> you would actually play would be F A C Eb for F7 and F A C E for >> Fmaj7. >> Using the numbers you could work out what E7 or Emaj7 would be or >> indeed for any root note. >> >> But there is no Fmaj6? If I got you right F6 is F A C and bD >> (flanttened a semitone)... but that seems not the case for F6, >> keychor.com <http://keychor.com> says F6 = F A C D!... how come?? > Fmaj7 is the diatonic I7 chord in the key of F (F A C E). > > F7 is the diatonic V7 chord in the key of Bb (F A C Eb). > > F6 (F A C D) is an added-note chord, it's the I chord in the key of F, > and it can be used as a direct substitution for Fmaj7. Note that it is > also an inversion of the Dm7 chord, the diatonic 7th chord on the 6th > degree of the F major scale. Yup. The only difference between a C2 chord and a C9 chord is the interval between the C and the D ... which is what makes it sound different! And an E2 chord can also be a B4 chord ... -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
