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theory (sus)
T-Block:
--- Quote from: floaded27 on May 04, 2011, 09:24:01 PM ---also when you invert the sus2 and sus4 chords, you see that they are stacked in perfect 4ths (or 5ths depending on how u look).
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Nice observation. In all my years of playing those 2 chords, I never noticed that.
floaded27:
--- Quote from: T-Block on May 05, 2011, 03:40:14 PM ---Nice observation. In all my years of playing those 2 chords, I never noticed that.
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i was watching this Jamal Hartwell vid on youtube with him breaking down "More than Anything" (i think the link was posted either here or in the keyboard forum) and he talked about using perfect 4ths for a walk down, and then i go "wait a minute, thats nothing but an inverted suspended chord" but the sweet part is playing with other notes in the bass than what u got in that chord, which is what he did.
the cool thing is that either the sus2 or sus4 chord is a diatonic chord for EVERY degree (for some its both), except the 7. So u can play just about the whole zipcode in suspended chords and not step out of the key sig with any note, not even once. actually im gonna go play around with that when i get to rehearsal tonight.
T-Block:
Interesting, very interesting. I will definitely be experimenting with this.
pilotprogram:
--- Quote from: floaded27 on May 05, 2011, 04:25:19 PM ---i was watching this Jamal Hartwell vid on youtube with him breaking down "More than Anything" (i think the link was posted either here or in the keyboard forum) and he talked about using perfect 4ths for a walk down, and then i go "wait a minute, thats nothing but an inverted suspended chord" but the sweet part is playing with other notes in the bass than what u got in that chord, which is what he did.
the cool thing is that either the sus2 or sus4 chord is a diatonic chord for EVERY degree (for some its both), except the 7. So u can play just about the whole zipcode in suspended chords and not step out of the key sig with any note, not even once. actually im gonna go play around with that when i get to rehearsal tonight.
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Right. Because it's a diatonic chord you will come across suspended chords that are flattened or raised in the scale. For example on the third degree of the C major scale the sus 2 chord is E - F - B and in the major scale of E F is sharpened as in F#. So in the C major scale that F is flattened and should be accorded as E sus b2.
The same happens with the fourth degree of the C major scale. If we are to allow a suspended destination this chord should be noted as F sus #4 since the B in F major scale is flattened as Bb.
Maybe I got it wrong but I agree with your assessment.
Blessingss:
--- Quote from: T-Block on May 05, 2011, 08:34:21 PM ---Interesting, very interesting. I will definitely be experimenting with this.
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Hey these sound very nice to me & seem to work 'everywhere'. I accidentally found myself doing them like 1-4-5-1 (sus4) over different bass notes and it's quite an awesome experience. :)
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