Songs that use 9th chords

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, minor

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, probably most of the seven chords you'll encounter, but a type of chord that might throw a bit of anxiety into the mix for many musicians. it's the 9th, once you get to Beyond on the 7th in things like kns 11, 13, sometimes it can be a little confusing knowing what notes really needed to be added to the chords and that's it. It doesn't help that there are some conventions for how we stack and add these notes with the chord.

So today we're going to look at the different types of knife chords that you can find and we'll start with just the standard ninth chord, for example C9, which is this chord here, so what we have here with a C9 chord is effectively a C7 C. dominant 7 with the ninth added above Po and of course the ninth is literally the ninth degree of the nine scale. notes from the C root in this case, so it's a C9 chord that's actually referred to by its full name as C dominant 9, in the same way that this C7 chord is actually C dominant 7 if we're precise. about this, this C9 chord is C dominant 9, we can see a ninth chord, a dominant ninth chord at work here in James Brown's Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, something new, as we can see in James Brown's song .

Here the 9 dominant chords can be used as a kind of improved version of a dominant 7 chord. Any time you play something in a sort of blues key where you use a dominant chord in the tonic instead of using seven, you can use a nine to add that extra depth and dimension. the chord, for example, we can see a lot throughout the song Play That Funky Music White Boy by Wild Cherry. Now what you may have noticed is different than when we do a seventh chord where we take a triad and then add the seventh with a ninth chord we don't just add the ninth on top, we don't take C and add the nine which is actually a different type of chord literally called C add n because we have to use the word ad to specify the fact that We are not stacking up to the knife because by default with what we call upper chord extensions knives 11th 13th we stack including the previous degree in this case 7th in the chord so a C9 chord also includes the 7th and that's true in all types of C knife, whether you're talking about major knives, minor knives, normal dominant knife like this, they always stack up.

Now let's move on to the next type of ninth chord, which is the major ninth, and what you'll notice is that the ninth was the highest note. It doesn't change if it's a dominant nine or a major 9, the highest note, the knife is the same note, it's not affected, the major or dominant aspect has to do with the seven in a major 9 chord, we're taking a major chord . 7 chord C major 7 and adding an n and on a C9 chord and a c dominant 9 we're adding the N from the top of a c dominant 7, so that's one of the things that can be confusing about KN strings , although the focus is something like on the nine in the name, the part that moves between a major nine and a dominant 9 and as you will see in the next one, the minor 9 is not the nine at all, the ninth degree is always in this case in At least if we stay where it is, we can hear the major 9 chord running at the beginning of Peg by Steely Dan.

Also look for these seven nine-sharp chords, which we'll talk about later in the video, the so-called hris chord. so we had C dominant 9, we had C major 9 where the minor seventh goes up to the major seventh here and we could also have C minor 9, which is again a change not in the ninth but in what happens below the ninth, so now you have a C minor 7 with the 9th added on top, a good example of minor knife chords is there and Let's Stay Together by Al Green. We can also hear a strummed n minor chord on the acoustic guitar drawing Pink's dog verse.

Floyd came to have a real, so I mentioned earlier about the added nine, so when instead of stacking including the seventh, we literally just add the ninth on top of whatever chord it is, so we could have, for example, C minor , add n and with that. type of chord, it's really simple to understand what you're asking CU, you literally write C minor and add n or the more common type um of adding nine c that finds the major in n, so C major in n, for example, and that It is a very common chord on the guitar, a very famous example is Wonder W by Oasis.

A great example of major 9th and minor 9th chords working is in Every Breath You Take by the police, where we'll add the kn to this. arpeggiated guitar part, so as you may have seen in some of the recent videos, I recently had the opportunity to film in the piano studio in Canada. Piano is a long-term sponsor of the channel. They really help make these videos possible and piano offers a fantastic online resource for learning to play the piano, if all this talk about 9th chords has you interested in learning other higher chord extensions, such as 11th chords, for example, then you may find Brett's 30 minute deep dive into 11th chords really useful because it gives you your 7th, 9th and 11th just to play a major triad, a whole tone from the key, this is just one of the hundreds of exclusive piano tutorials and lessons available that delve into every facet of playing the piano, so if you're interested in that, if you want to check out the piano, use the link below in the description for a free trial .

Thank you very much in all the major types of nine chords, the dominant nine, the major 9 and the minor 9 and even the announcement in the ninth degree. it never changes between all these chords C9 C major 9 C minor 9 C sum 9 the nth is always that d right there, but there are some variations on ninth chords that we can do where we're changing what that ninth is, so for example , we could have a flat nine chord which is like an alteration of the normal chord, so for example we could have C7 flat 9, so the ninth would normally be D natural, we end up instead of d flat because flat n add The N9 flat to a dominant chord adds even more tension to what was already a tense chord, making the resolution of that dominant chord even more satisfying, for example in For Once in My Life, which Stevie Wonder did famously, here we get a flat D7 string that resolves to G minor 7, this chord change would have worked. perfectly fine just with a regular D7 moving to G minor 7 instead of the flat 9, but the flat 9 adds even more benefit to that resolution of that chord change, here's what the change would sound like if it were just a D7 once in my life.

I have someone who needs me and this is what Stevie actually plays with the included flat N9 and just as we can flatten the knife we ​​can also sharpen it so for example if I had an E seven chord I couldn't add the ninth normal. which would be F sharp, but I could add the n sharp, so I sharpen it again brings me to this note G technically what we would call F double sharp because it was in FP. I sharpened an F, so now it's a double sharp, but it's actually a G natural placed on top of an E7 chord, so now we effectively have both the major third and the minor third, although we call it a nine sharp on the chord at a time and this is what we call an hrx chord, of course, which is named after Jimmy Hendrix is ​​a very distinctive chord, a kind of dissonant sounding chord that, for example, he used in the opening of Purple Haze now, Although we associate this chord with hris, this chord was of course used long before hris, for example we can see a seven-sharp n. chord here on All Blues by Mars Davis and, in fact, the use of this chord here on All Blues was what inspired Pink Floyd's Rick Wright to include the same chord on Floyd's classic track.

Breathe, there's a certain chord that's totally due to a chord that I had actually heard on the Miles Davis album when we were doing Breath we get to G and how you get to E again well you normally go but I remember this chord and I remember having worked at home listening to the record and I just thought that the Beatles were also fans of this dominant flat cable, the Jimmy Hendricks cable who used it in a variety of his

songs

, including the word Taxman and Michelle, so that was the cable from Hendrick, but here is another cable that is commonly named after a very famous use. of it, the James Bond chord, what is a minor major nine chord?

If you watched my video on the seven types of seven chords, you know that a major minor 7 is a minor triad, but with the major 7 even built on top of it, well, a minor. The major 9 is exactly the same chord, but now we also add the 9th on top of it, so for example we have E minor major 7 and then we add the 9th on top of the F and now it's an E minor major 9, so those are the chords ninth grade let me know in the comments if you can think of any other good examples of 9th chords in popular

songs

and also let me know if you can think of good examples of 11th chords and 13th chords in songs because I will be making future videos on both topics too oh am