What would you call these chords? 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?
Last edited by jtizzle : 01-25-2012 at 08:44 PM.
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