TrumpetMaster - View Single Post - What are these chords and what are their chord scales?

Shermy · 10-30-2007, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by wilcox96

If I assume that, when you use the "+" sign, you mean to "add" that note of the chord... then, the highlighted would be as follows (in order that you have them):

Db add 9 / G maj 7 b9 / D maj 7

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Thanks for the reference to the book, however, I'm working with a published piece of music. It's the solo part to a full big band arrangement. If the nomenclature means what you say, why would the A chord in the last and third to the last bars be written as just A and not A+7?

My original thought is that they may be the same as these "Aebersold" nomenclature chords:

Db+9 = Db7+9 (the chord scale would be the diminished whole-tone scale Db D E F G A B Db)

____________+9
G+7(b9) = G7b9 (the chord scale again would be diminished whole-tone G Ab Bb B C# Eb F G) Why not use the same nomenclature as the Db+9? Don't they both use the same chord scale, aren't the sounds of the chords essentially the same?

D+7 = D7+ (the chord scale would be the whole-tone scale D E F# G# Bb C D)

Does that make sense wilcox96?

Can anyone tell me if this is correct?