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What is this chord?


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You're right. That would just be a very slimmed down Cadd9 chord, with the 5th missing (which is often an ok note to leave out). To truly be C9, as you said, it would need the b7.

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The fifth, the G, is in there on the picture I looked at....third string, open.

I agree that "C add 9" would be a better description of it. Although I feel there should be an 'X' marked on the low string, so it's not played. Rather clumsy, with an E in the bass, to say the least.

A poor and misleading diagram, really.

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Maybe they forgot to add a dot for the open G string. if I saw C9 in a chord chart I would assume it meant a dominant chord like this:

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-3-

-3-

-2-

-3-

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This is just bad theory on the part of the person who made the chord chart. There's a big difference between a C9 - which is a dominant chord and has the 7th in it - and a Cadd9 or C(9) or Csus2 (it can be written all 3 ways) - which are all C major chords with the note D added to the chord but no 7th. The 3rd and the 7th are the two most determining degrees of a chord so it makes a big difference if the 7th is there or not.

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This is just bad theory on the part of the person who made the chord chart. There's a big difference between a C9 - which is a dominant chord and has the 7th in it - and a Cadd9 or C(9) or Csus2 (it can be written all 3 ways) - which are all C major chords with the note D added to the chord but no 7th. The 3rd and the 7th are the two most determining degrees of a chord so it makes a big difference if the 7th is there or not.

 

 

 

I think when you put the "sus" in, it is supposed to mean the third is replaced with that note. So sus 2 would be 1-2-5 rather than 1-3-5. But so many people write things so many different ways it's hard to know exactly what they mean.

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I think when you put the "sus" in, it is supposed to mean the third is replaced with that note. So sus 2 would be 1-2-5 rather than 1-3-5. But so many people write things so many different ways it's hard to know exactly what they mean.

 

 

No, you're right. Technically a "sus" chord means the 3rd is suspended and replaced with the 4th or 2nd. But you'll still see "sus2" written for this chord a lot of times even though the E is being played on the 4th string.

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