Comments on: How to Play a Bsus add9 Chord

By: Al

Al — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:25:36 +0000

Hey Claude , you are certainly having a good day … that guitar is the closest I’ve heard to date to being perfectly in Tune , and now as result it sounds really nice. Yes , it is difficult to make a guitar sound exactly in tune with chords , and particularly so across all the strings in different positions up and down the neck ,
but today you got it ! … I am impressed … perhaps with these interesting multi-note chord voicings you are working on your brain has become very clearly focussed on the intervals between the notes. Now you are ready to be a Cool Jazz player !!
I still prefer the Tone of that blue semi-acoustic which you haven’t played on video for a long time , however this Spear SG is enticing … now if Spear were to make a Semi-Acoustic … with its Nut , Frets and Bridge all as well placed as your sample of their SG so I could achieve that perfect tuning … how about a recommendation to them ?

By: Rustie

Rustie — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 12:37:58 +0000

And here was me thinking this was supposed to be a fun website for people wanting to have a little fun learning to play rock and blues. Why, oh why, do there have to be anoraks overcomplicating and over theorising what should be a bit of fun. Who do these people think they’re impressing with their sus this and sus that and sus the other. Try and get out more….and lighten up!!!!

By: Jeffrey Ball

Jeffrey Ball — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 07:59:44 +0000

In reply to Freddy.

No matter who the teacher is and who the student is, they’re all going to have some finite end to their knowledge. The essence of teaching is the sharing of information, and that goes on between teacher and student, teacher and other teachers, etc.

Its wrong to impute the motive of anyone who wants to contribute to the discussion to: A) that they love to catch a teacher making a mistake, and B) that they think they don’t make mistakes themselves.

The process of learning harmony comes from lots and lots of mistakes, unfortunately without figuring out the answers right away and continuing to make and ponder the same mistakes over and over.

Another way to understand this, and the more correct one in my opinion, is that challenges to a teacher, only come from the brightest, most motivated students and who care the most. Its a profound compliment to a teacher, who has obviously peaked the students attention and interest, and has drawn him/her out to try to compare ‘what was just taught,’ to ‘what was prior understood’ which might be right or wrong, and those dissonances might be due to misunderstandings or terminology, and not errors of fact. Challenges to a teacher may cause the teacher to re-consider, re-think and perhaps deepen, if not change his/her understanding. The goal of any quality education, must include bi-directionality. Most good teachers will tell you that they’ve learned the most from the challenges of their best students.

And finally, your issue of F# as opposed to Gb … yes they are enharmonic equivalent notes. But consider a GMaj7 chord … the 7th of the chord really has to be an F# (G B D F# … not a Gb (G B D Gb, right? Otherwise we’d have two G’s in the chord … and no real 7th F# … The Gb would be a diminished octave from the root … chaos, dogs and cats mating …

Best wishes,

Jeff

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:22:57 +0000

In reply to varg...vargason. love the sound of that chord !

By: Freddy

Freddy — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:54:43 +0000

Claud,
Good morning , as for the chords in question..we are only human that being said humans make mistakes. But its so funny how the ones that think they don’t make mistakes love to catch the teacher in a mistake. Chords can be tricky and there are many of them, just like the F sharp, is the same make up as G flat and so on.
Hay your doing a lot of people like myself a lot of good teaching us the wonderful world of playing music, thank you for that. All the best to you and yours,
Freddy

By: Akilan

Akilan — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 02:37:02 +0000

Can you please inform the fingering position or a chart for the Bsus add9 chord? Thanks

By: dr. ro

dr. ro — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:17:02 +0000

You played a minor 11 without the minor note (D in this case). In my opinion you can voice a m11 or a 7sus the same way. That is what makes guitar voicings so unique.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:30:43 +0000

In reply to Brian B. Hi, in my opinion, that chord is an Am7add11.

By: jstin Darosa

jstin Darosa — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 20:36:35 +0000

Hey Claude, Hope your doing good and in good health I think that Shane LeRoy sums it up for me so i don’t need to write a bunch of lane-go. Keep us going because we all like your style see you
later and keep it straight!

By: Tommys' Blues

Tommys' Blues — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:50:57 +0000

I’m not too concerned with the exact name of the chords, but the exact sound is important to me. Including a chord chart for the chord you are talking about would be a big help. Thanks for what you do , I’m always looking for something new to spice up my tunes!