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Music Appreciation

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6. Nope, not too difficult a chord, just a new one...

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:22 PM

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...at least for pop/rock players. I'm sure that the guys in Steely Dan used chords like that before, but I would bet good money that a new wave band never played a m7/11 chord before Andy Summers did. The easiest fingering for that chord is to play a Csus2 with an open A string. It functions as an Am7 (Aeolian, modal minor), but it adds a lot more color. Alex Lifeson ripped it off for "Distant Early Warning" from Grace Under Pressure. Not too surprising, as Lifeson was a big fan of the Police.

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It was a hell of a chord--a minor 11! keep_left Friday #4

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Nope, not too difficult a chord, just a new one... keep_left Friday #6