I was playing around somewhere between Chord Theory and Grade 2 Mod 8, L8 Open Chord Study. Stretch your brain.
So.
This E chord sound nice. I have no idea what it is called. It has a Sharpened 3rd.
What would this be called? It doesn’t fit nicely into the maj/min/aug/dim matrix.
But my guess is that music theory has a way to handle it.
this chord is called Esus4 and sus stands for suspended.
As you see, from the regular E-chord, you only have the 1 ond the 5 - the 3rd is missing (G# for major, G for minor), it is substituted with the 4 (A), therefore called sus4.
The 3rd is the most crucial note in a chord when it comes to define whether it major or minor. When you play the E-chord as above, you’ll notice it does neither sound majory, nor minory, right?
I’ve been digging and have found a website tool where you can enter a chord shape and get the name of the chord. There are probably others out there, but this one is working for me at the moment.
Good stuff.
“Give a man a fish a he’ll eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a life-time.”
You’re talking to a guy who has difficulty remembering what he ate for breakfast.
Send it to me again. Or send me the link where I said “I don’t need it.” Now I’m curious.
Perhaps that was my evil twin.