Songs that use 9th, 11th and 13th chords

Eye opening video! Thanks! 🔥

And here I was, playing 11 chords for 30 years and not knowing it. It’s always been a 4/5 chord for me.

Nice outro and super instrumental to my new found knowledge. Love Richard Wrights great piano and synthesizer work!

I sing in quartets a lot. In writing upper extension chords I almost always choose to drop the root or the fifth - or both. I insist on including the third to specify majorness or minorness, and the dominant 7th. Are those really words?🙄 My spell chick doesn't like them.

These 11th chords you talked about, are actually 9sus4 chords. Because the 11th and the major 3rd are creating a minor 9th interval which sounds awful. Just leave out the 3rd or substitute it for the perfect 4th and the chord is going to sound much better

Two things:

1. I’m a long time Tone Gym user thanks to your videos.

2. I refer to chords like F/G as “G classic” which I took from Joey Dosik. That voicing is so common that I think it deserves it’s own name and G11 does a bad job at describing it

A flat/B flat = How Long by Ace

you make my life easy thank you very much❤❤✌✌👌🙏🙏

perfect thank you

Why do the chord extentions have a minor seventh instead of a major seventh

It appears that the Long and Winding Road chord is the same one Paul used in the opening of “with a little luck“

Great video, examples, conceptualizations, explanations of what notes to leave out. Perfect.
Edit: Cool improv at the end too..

How do you tell the difference between a C9 and a Cadd9?
You play them…the moment you hear that 7th creating a tri-tone with the 3rd, you’ll know the difference.

Super job teaching them. But what seems to be the affect of extensions? What does it emotionally communicate or express thats what I keep wondering. Roland Orzabel from Tears for fears, Sting and Seal use them often too.

What app is THAT???!!!

Great video - I'm working on 9th chords with some of my students and this has been a great source of info and inspiration. Thanks mate :)

Amazing lesson. Thank you

Cool.
I've always called Cadd9 "Funky C". Now I know. :)

Great video! I like learning about chords that I hadn't learned about in music school. And I love the cat at the end.

I won’t say convention of naming chords are bad. But I think it would be more logical if the 7th chords will always be a major 7th instead of dominant so all the extensions will take the mayor scale first degree as reference. And the dominat seventh will be better to use it as flat 7th. What do you guys think?

Why 'Nine'? Why 'Eleven?' etc. Where are the numbers from? I have to work it out for myself-is 9th the tone after the 8th/octave?

i thought the first rule of upper chord extensions is you dont talk about upper chord extensions....

FanTAStic video, great song at the end Dave, best theory videos on the internet

My first experience with this was my banjo teacher showing me "9" chords.
He called these "the james brown chords"
When i heard my first one, I thought "wow!"

So THAT is what a slash chord is. I knew there had to be more to it .

Thank you David - top !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yo man whats up with sharp 11s?

There's a really beautiful D13+11 chord in Your Latest Trick by Dire Straits.

Very much appreciate the use of the Let It Be... Naked version of the Long and Winding Road

Awesome!!! Maj7#11 in "No Such Thing" JM Bridge Lydian dreamy sound 😁👍Also 7add13 in "Mercy Mercy Me" "What's Going on" MG...thx so much for this video...

Now you're really digging deep into the mysteries of chordal structures. Great stuff!
Plus, love that original song at the end with those dense chords that you talked about in the video.
Oh my gosh, you brought out the cat! I almost missed it because I was trying to comment.

Interesting video. Regarding omitting notes from extended chords I learnt that the 3rd couldn't be omitted but the 5th and any note above the 7th could be (other than the note giving the name to the chord). This makes sense to me as the 3rd and the root provide the quality of the chord - major/minor etc and the 7th with the 3rd provides the instability/leading note. Either way, one thing I've learnt about theory is that different countries often have different 'rules'. My conservatory taught using the Russian method based off Sobosbin (?) Anyway, love the video and also extended chords with no 3rds can be used to extend my harmony repertoire.

By dropping out the 3rd and the 5th, it doesn't just make the Bb11 chord easier to play, it makes it NOT A Bb11 CHORD AT ALL!

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Oh no, David is stuck under a fluffy furball, no more work today!

Im almost positive that Macca thought of these chords as an 11. Especially by Let it Be. He was a virtuoso. Guitar players learn things in my experience by shapes which are composed of certain degrees in a scale. I just learned this slash concept as a keyboardist and it is very helpful to people with right and left hands but a guitarist is going to be so confused.

This was extremely helpful, thanks! Trying to teach myself music over the last few years and hearing chord names and structures always sounded like Greek. Especially when chords don't include the root note in the right hand. This one helped a lot, appreciate it.

I haven't studied music, besides watching videos such as yours, but, as a bass player that doesn't read sheet music/score but chord charts, the slash chords let me know exactly what to play over the "root" chords which helps a lot! So I'm a big fan of those, haha.

Just how far can musicians go with this, before it becomes nonsensical?

There are obviously chords which are entirely unfeasable to pay (on a piano) with only ten digits. But now with our heavily synthetic music domain, musicians have an enormous conceptual space (unfettered by reality) to be really creative.

So, when do chords cease being harmony & become cacophony? Discord can obviously be useful in music, but are there firm limits on where we should go, if we want it to be accessible to human ears & minds..?

And getting into the really metaphysical: Could these expand, along with our minds, as humans evolve (if not self-engineer ) greater cognitive faculties, over time..?

The 11 chord might be popular in pop because it is easy to play on the piano, compared to the ninth - which ought to be more common. Just play the root in bass with the left hand and the rest of the chord is a step down. So for example an E bass and just add the triad for a D chord ( strictly speaking you would have to add a B note though - you can drop it ).

Wow, I knew I was going to find this out eventually, when I get there on my linear musical learning journey, but you have just leapt me ahead with the easiest to understand explanation on the subject. Absolutely fabulous …. That would make a great TV sitcom title! …. I am creating a Channel to point everyone in the direction of things they really need to know, musically or otherwise, as well as creating my own videos, if there isn’t a better one than I could produce already. This and many other of your videos will feature heavily! Thank you and keep up the fabulous work. Every day will always be a school day and I’m 60 years old …. no, I don’t know how that happened, it’s weird being the same age as old people! 🤣😁

Ah... but the most beautifil chord is that sweet augmented pussychord on top of D/B

An eyeopener, or should I say ear-opener, really? Greatly informative and revealing. Ta David.

Slash chords are easier to understand when you remember a whole band plays these songs. The guitarist could be playing an A and the bassist could be playing a B. And the whole becomes the upper chord extension

I'm learning the piano for a couple months but have been a sub of yours for years. I woiuld just like to say that not enough is said about the very high quality of each video.
Merci beaucoup.

Why is the 7th in a 7 chord made flat?

thaks a lot, this was really usefull