Major 9th Chords - What they are & how to use them in progressions
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
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This video explains what Major 9th chords are, how to construct them and how to use them in chord progressions.
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⏲⏳⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 - Major 9th Chords - What They Are & How To Use Them
0:10 - How Are Major 9th Chords Written in Notation?
0:25 - How To Construct Major 9th Chords
0:50 - Where Does The 9th Note Come From?
1:41 - How Do I Make The C Major 9th Chord?
2:36 - How Does The Major Chord Compare To The Major 7th & Major 9th Chords?
3:18 - How Can We Use The Major 9th Chord?
3:32 - A Ballad Progression Using Major 9th Chords
4:15 - How To Use The Major To Major 9th Chord Change
4:40 - Mix & Match Major 7th Chords With Major 9th Chords
5:01 - How To Use Single Beat Chord Changes To Create Riff Like Sounds
5:27 - How To Use The Major 9th As A Transition To The Relative Minor
6:10 - Additional Help For Using Extended Chords
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Very useful and informative video in a simple format. Cheers. Looking forward to a whole lot more stuff from you.
Cheers Mark
Merci beaucoup. I'm just learning how to make the chords, and sometimes I think that it sounds too crunchy or diminished. But then I realize I'm trying to make a diminished chord. That was a great comment, not to overdo using it.
I'm so glad I found your channel.
Thanks Lawrence. It can be easy to make a diminished chord if you think it's just a minor triad with a flattened fifth. That's only a half step difference in one note for such a big difference in sound!
I discovered this channel few weeks ago, and I have to say you're doing magnificent job! I don't watch videos for songwriting, but to understand theory behind my guitar playing, and better understand possible chord progressions, especially since I learn jazz now. I will recommend you to my friends.
Thank you! Good luck with your guitar playing
Unironically one of the most helpful videos I've ever found on yt
Thanks!
Thank you so much for these videos! Found your channel maybe a week ago and feel like a weight has been lifted in my struggle to understand music theory. So many things have been cleared up for me and the excitement of writing music has come back.One thing Im still not 100% sure about is: Are chord progressions mainly based from the 1,4,5,6 chords? As in when other chords are used, its chord replacement or minor form. Or is it just down to taste where for example a progression has a more 2's , 3's and 7's is just a less popular sounding progression rather than a complicated arrangement of remixed 1, 4,5,6 chords? Keep up the stirling work!
Thank you for the kind comment! I'm so glad that your excited for writing music again.
In a major key, the more common chord progressions will be based around I IV and V major chords, with the minor chords featuring less often. The vii diminished chord features even less due to it's sound.
But it is all down to taste! You can use any chords you like, in any order, if you like the sound of them. Certain chords in certain places are used more widely because more songwriters have found the sound pleasing over time.
I hope that helps you a bit.
@@WriteASong Thanks yes it does. I was over complicating it and assuming that the ii and iii were always a minor form of the IV+V chords instead of that just being an option you can choose to vary the chords.
I realised the other day that, you have the 1 ,4, 5 of both the minor and major in the 6 chords you have to choose (minus the vii) . This both makes things clearer and confuses me 😄
Thanks for this video. Please can you do a video on writing song in parts (sop, alto,ten, and base) using solfa notation ( d,r,m f,s,l,t,d), and explain how the notes from each chord are related while keeping in mind the basic rules of melodic and harmonic movement.
Thanks for the comment.
I have no immediate plans to do a video like this but I will note it down to cover in the future.
It's like a C major triad with a G major triad on top (the 5th of the C's the root of the G). Forgive the interruption? It's just a way I've always pictured Maj. 9ths.
Yes that works! Interesting way to think of it, thanks.
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Thank you!
Can you do songwriting in modes ? Aeoleon, lydian, mixolydian and locrian modes.
Thanks for the comment, I will be covering the modes in future videos.
Couple of those examples sounded lots like “silly love songs ” paul McCartney
At 3:28, can we also not play 2nd and 6th chords of a major key? All 5 notes of that chord will also be of that scale?
Yes you can!
@@WriteASong Ok thanks a lot
Major 9th chords: when the tonic and the dominant create a lovechild.
As we approach the Cocteau Twins asymptote.
So that’s what John Lennon was going on about when he was muttering on Revolution #9
No. The song was modeled on an avant-garde electronic music piece by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called “Hymnen.” One section of it has a speaker repeatedly saying “Number nine” in several different languages. Stockhausen is among the figures included on the cover of Sgt Pepper’s.
@@stephenwagner1500 I was being facetious
Cmaj9, so far away carole king
What happens if the 9th note isn't an octave higher than the root note?
Is the chord "Maj7 add 2"
Also, if you place the 2nd / 9th note in the bass, does the first inversion now have D in the bass rather than the 3rd (E) for C extended chord?
The 9th note doesn't have to be an octave higher than the root. For example, voicings on the guitar often don't have the 9th note as the highest note so that they are easier to play.
The video teaches the 9th note as higher because it helps to understand where the number 9 comes from.
If you place the 9th note in the bass it could be considered a Fourth inversion of the chord.
@@WriteASong glad you confirmed this. I've always been a bit doubtful with dropping these 'extended' notes (9th, 11th, 13th) into a lower register/octave then having to rename them, incorrectly. But you've cleared my mess up
Ta very much!
@@philipgreenwood3251
The principle with chord extensions is (a) to have each extension at a greater distance from the tonic note, and (b) to "stack" the extended note on top of the previous ones, so that by the time you have a 13 chord, you have all seven notes of the diatonic scale: 1 3 5 7 9 11 13.
These have to be spaced some distance apart from each other (a minor or major third, that is, 3 or 4 semitones) in order for their frequencies to not be perceived as conflicting. For example, a major 7th interval is one semitone away from the octave of the tonic note. That sounds fine, but if it were to be inverted (by dropping that note an octave) it would only be one semitone away, and we might hear the small difference in the two frequencies as an unpleasant "beat frequency."
But in practice we rarely want something as blurry as a 13 chord, so notes are commonly omitted. And as we omit notes, we find that we gain some freedom in how we can invert the remaining notes. We may also end up being obliged to name the resulting chords in some way that distinguishes them from the more foundational extensions.
For example, a minor 9th chord contains the minor 3rd and (major) 9th intervals. Dropping the 9th an octave to make it a (major) 2nd would put it a semitone away from the minor 3rd, which would produce a beat frequency. But by eliminating the 3rd entirely from the chord, the resulting 2nd sounds fine. Of course, the chord has now become ambiguous, since it's neither minor or major, and for this purpose it's likely to be called a sus2, implying that there's no 3rd.
The sus4 makes a similar, but arguably better, case for how suspended chords came to be named in this way. It's not properly an 11th chord because, again, there's no 3rd interval, probably not a 7th or 9th either. It's simply that the major third has been "suspended" into a perfect fourth. Both the sus2 and sus4 triads give a sense of being sweet but unresolved or suspended.
@@starfishsystems cheers, thorough explanation 👍
C major 7th , is not C7 , it's Cmaj7