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Old 01-25-2012, 08:15 PM
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I recently started doing the harmonize scales exercise for chord practice, but using 7th and extended chords, although without alterations for the moment. Everything I'm working with is diatonic.
The way I'm doing it is, obviously keeping the melody notes ascending, but I'm also ascending the bass note as well (all diatonically). In my case, the bass is always parallel to the top note (they're always on the same fret except for when I reach B on the bass and F on the top note. One fret apart), and I fill in the middle with the 3rd and 7th of the chord I'm working with, or if they're in the top and/or bass note, then any other scale tone.
For limitation purposes, I also kept using the same chord harmonization, so I did a whole scale harmonized C scale in Dminor7 and a whole harmonized C scale in Cmajor7.

So with that information, I came up with two chords, one for Cmajor7 and one for Dminor7 which sound really cool, and weird, but I'm not sure if I can technically still call it a Cmajor or Dminor.
The voicings are:
Dminor7 (11,13) - 8 x 9 10 8 x - Notes in the chord are C B F G
Cmajor7 (11,13) - 5 x 3 4 5 x - Notes are A F B E

So technically, I think you can consider them Dminor and Cmajor (with those extensions) since they have their respective 3rds and 7ths, but they both have tritones in them, which is kind of confusing.

My question is, can they really be called what I'm saying they are? Or what else would you call them? What would their function be?

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Old 01-25-2012, 09:23 PM
 
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Based solely on the note content:

C F B G is CMa7sus 1 4 7 5

A F B E is FMa7b5 3 1 b5 7

Can you write out the notes to one example? I'm not quite understanding your process. Thanks
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Old 01-25-2012, 09:36 PM
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What you are calling CM7 11 13 is a rootless D-6 with an A in the bass or a rootless G13 with the A in the bass.

What you are calling D-7 11 13 is more like a CM7 sus which is more akin to G7 suss or FM7#11.
Either way the tritones beg to resolve to C.
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Old 01-25-2012, 10:24 PM
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Based solely on the note content:

C F B G is CMa7sus 1 4 7 5

A F B E is FMa7b5 3 1 b5 7

Can you write out the notes to one example? I'm not quite understanding your process. Thanks
You mean the exercise or whatever I'm doing?
I think I could do it for one example, do you want like the whole scale?

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What you are calling CM7 11 13 is a rootless D-6 with an A in the bass or a rootless G13 with the A in the bass.

What you are calling D-7 11 13 is more like a CM7 sus which is more akin to G7 suss or FM7#11.
Either way the tritones beg to resolve to C.
Hmm, that's interesting haha, I knew it was sort of like a G9,13 with the 9 in the bass but it's funny how it came up in that process, so it kind of had a different function I guess. Same thing with the D- one, the top three notes look like a C7#11, with a maj7 in the bass. Again, seeing it come up in this exercise makes it look like it has a completely different function.
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