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0:00 Introduction.
0:37 Dominant 9th.
3:05 Major 9th.
4:38 Minor 9th.
5:29 Include 9.
6:32 Pianote.
7:24 Flat 9.
9:09 Sharp 9 (Hendrix chord).
11:27 Minor Major 9 (James Bond chord).
12:10 Outro/Patreon.
Songs that use 9th chords
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This is one of the few channels I follow where I click “like” before I even watch the video.
Thank you 😊😊
Me too
Same, I learn something every time he uploads.
Same
Always!
Ninth chords always have had a unique beauty to me
Minor Ninths are so beautiful, they seem to transport the music to another place. 😉
and you are absolutely correct, I feel they are much more beautiful than 7ths while 7ths being amazing in their own right 9ths just can’t be beat
Especially the minor 9. Sheer romance.
Thank you David for elucidating all these chord structures. I’m a guitarist and love the timbre of all instruments including piano of course. You inspire me to learn more and I’m considering the pianos since I do have a Casio keyboard with which I practice harmonic intervals. Thanks again!❤👍🏼👍🏼
So crystal clear with David.
I just want to say that studying music on guitar and keyboard has been more productive for me than either instrument alone. Each shows the logic in a slightly different way.
I second this, working on piano for understanding harmony is honestly incredibly useful!
Especially for broader topics like extensions and jazz,
That said, really understanding how to use the main 4 voices accessible to you on the guitar is phenomenal for forcing precision in voice leading and bass movement etc
Just wish I had my vocab on piano as I do guitar, but it would take a lot of motor learning lol.
One day when I get round to it, eh
Learning piano after guitars a game changer. Not only the obvious increase in more accessible music theory but directly improves guitar rhythm and ear training and composition
& it’s linear! My fingers now prefer Keyboards.@@morganst.pierre
I’ve encountered some of these 9th chords in classical pieces as well. Debussy uses the “Hendrix chord” in his prelude “Dead Leaves,” composed in 1913. Rachmaninoff also uses the A minor add 9 chord effectively in his Etudes Tableaux Op. 39, No. 2 (1917) and ends the piece with the “Bond chord.”
AC⚡DC use them a lot in their rhythm guitar riffs.
@@b00ts4ndc4ts do you have any examples?
@@maverator beating a round the bush is a good one.
If you placed all of their songs on the floor and threw a dart you will hit a song with one in.
They are by far the best band to learn great riffs because of their use of add9
What a difference a day made, uses C7#9
Learning about the function of chord extensions is like a painter discovering how to mix new colors! 🎨🎨
A use of 11th chords that immediately comes to my mind is at the end of the verse of Charlene‘s „I‘ve never been to me“. (And this song has many other interesting Chord-Progressions!)
Major 9th: “I Love You, Porgy” (from Porgy and Bess, of course, but there’s as also a famous Nina Simone version).
The pedagogic advantage of this song is that its melody literally begins with the chord tones in succession.
Incredible how much you can teach in only 13 minutes. Great video, as usual!
Thank you!!
My favorite ninth chord is probably in The Beatles’ “If I Fell”, where at the end of the line “don’t hurt my pride like *herrrr*”, we are expecting a D major chord, but instead we get a D9, sort of veering us away from the established melody and highlighting the protagonist’s apprehension in the lyrics.
This piece is full of surprises alright, and that line is one of them.
I’m not sure if this is a ninth though.
In the piano arrangement I have, there is a D7 on the left, and the right is F#CE, which I think is F#m7b5 (without the A). I think I’ve got that right. Happy to discuss! 🙂
Interesting. The arrangement I have specifying D9 is for guitar, so maybe it was changed slightly.
Your arrangement gives the notes D F# A C E when combining left and right hands, correct? In D that would be 1 3 5 dom7 9, which is D9. I’m guessing piano is just better able to replicate what multiple musicians are playing on the album, so you can get a richer voicing of essentially the same chord.
@@scabbarae Yes, I see what you mean now. The thumb in my left hand would be the D in your notes listed above, so would be your D9 (but no A). Thanks for taking the time to reply and to reconcile our arrangements.
Ninth chords can also be thought of as polychords, where the top note of one chord is the bottom note of the other. For example, if in the E(Hendrix) chord, you think of the top F double sharp as a G natural, then it is a G chord on top of an E Chord. The C9 chord is Gm on top of C, the C7b9 chord is G dim over C, and the Bond chord is G major on top of C minor.
I think out of all the 9th chords, the Dominant 7 ♭9 is my favorite. It’s got such a somber, beautiful sound to it.
I want you (She’s so heavy)
yep, same! such a beautiful chord specially when solved to a minor seventh
Hugee flamenco and Latin jazz chord. Love me some i V7b9 with iv and ii mixed in or Andalusian cadence
Another 9th chord you could have mentioned is the 6/9, the classic bluesy/jazzy ending chord
Another cool thing about the D7b9 in “For Once In My Life” is that the Eb completes the chromatically ascending C, C#, D line in the previous three chords.
True – an F7 would have worked as the transition chord, but the ninth used is perfect.
Slipping between a major chord and a ninth has always sounded sublime to me. The riff and orchestration of the song “Ferry Cross the Mersey” is a perfect example of it. Another song which makes good use of ninths (maj9 this time, IIRC) is Billy Joel’s “Rosalinda’s Eyes” (which has some amazing chords). That chord run from “Breathe” is also used by Godley and Creme in their Gershwinesque song “Lost Weekend”.
Loved that Rick Wright was in this. What a treasure we lost! What an incredible chord progression! Thanks for doing these videos. They are the best and I always learn so many things that I can add to my playing. You CAN teach an old dog. 🙂
Rick Wright is one of the most underrated musicians in the annals of rock history. Lost in all the drama between Roger Waters/David Gilmour and the mystique of Syd Barrett is the fact that Rick Wright was a gifted songwriter and a very good lead vocalist in his own right. Even on the songs he didn’t write or contribute to vocally, the atmosphere and mood we’ve come to associate Pink Floyd with was largely created by his parts.
I’ve watched that Classic Albums doc so often that I almost cheered when that moment showed up here.
There is an early Pink Floyd track called Paintbox (it’s on Relics) written and I think sung by Wright and it’s one of the best songs ever by the band in my opinion. It has a falling semitonal chord sequence/riff that is stunningly imaginative.
I always watch your videos, never comment, but I had to this time. Your explanation of C9 including the notes of C7 and the 9th, but Cadd9 is a regular C with a 9th added is great. I never even thought of it in that way. Great vid as always.
I remember when that Pink Floyd documentary was released I saw the scene where Rick Wright shows the chord and thought to myself “wouldn’t it be cool if there’s a way to discover what chords are used in these classic songs” so here we are. Excelent content
Great video. As a Brazilian, I need to recommend a song by a composer from the Northeast of Brazil, named Djavan. The song is called “Maçã” (Apple), and in it, there are phrases with 9th, 9th flat, and 9th sharp chords. It’s worth checking out; his harmonies are incredible.
Great lesson as always. Heaven Beside You by Alice in Chains uses them in the bridge. Because of the open B and E strings No Excuses uses them as well. It’s a voicing Jerry Cantrell uses a lot.
One of the very best channels of this type, period.
First of all the focus is on content not on the youtuber showing off. The content is very well crafted, prepared and explained in a an easy to follow fashion. The modules are bite size and easy to digest. The actual examples put all the theory into context. For me, a guitarist, it is so refreshing to watch this channel where everything is explained using a piano keyboard. I have always thought piano is the most logically laid out instrument to teach music, where notes and chords all connect in the easiest way possible. Last but not least the author focuses on practical use of the theory he teaches, which is far more important than the theory itself, if it makes sense…..
And by the way: whenever I see anything “The Beatles” I click like, therefore I like every video of yours 🙃
Greetings from Poland! I hope for more excellent content in 2024 😍