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Old 04-07-2011, 05:07 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Nicktarist View Post
@stereoid, hopefully this should explain things a bit:




on your C scale your going to put your left hand on E and Bb and play a standard D chord (which would be D, Gb, and A). Now if you have someone play a C note on a bass or even the piano, you'll come out with a C7 flat 5 chord.

Hope that explains a bit.

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-nick
I'm not an expert musician by any means but I understand enough and this makes no sense to me. Firstly a standard D chord is D F# A. Gb is the enharmonic equivalent but it should still be written F# so in the scale of D every note is accounted for. Also if youre advised to play 3 and 7 from the C scale there is nothing there to indicate the 7 is flat.
How is the chord C7 b5 or C 13 # 11? If you play all the notes at the same time it is both. With a C in the bass as suggested the chord would be C13 b5 m7.
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