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mrlucky7

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Hello,

 

I am working on a progression of 2 chords that are F#sus4/C# and F#sus4b5/C. I'm kind of stuck trying to figure out a fingering for those. If it helps, the previous chord is a D6 and the one that follows is a Bm.

 

Let me know your thoughts !

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Hmmm, there is no 7th. it is F#sus4/C# and F#sus4b5/C. What I was doing was :

 

F#sus4/C X44422

 

and just cant find anything that sounds right for the second one.

 

I do like the way you worked the progression though :cool:

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Even though the 7th isn't indicated in that chord, due to the chord before it, D6, having an E in it's tonality, the note will fit in quite well. Also, the E is being retained in the melody in all the voicings I used, so it will work even better still.

 

That said, I doubt the voicings I picked are the actual voicings for that song. As soon as I saw "F#sus4b5/C" I got a strong suspicion that whoever wrote that really doesn't know how to notate chords too well, and thus could have mislabeled an otherwise simple chord.

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Originally posted by Poparad

Yes, that's correct, but the 6th and the 9th often go hand in hand and are very compatible, which is why I included it in the voicing I used.

 

 

Matter of fact, I was just working on a progression that used a D6 chord with the ninth added. It was x54200...weird I know but it sounds good with my progression.

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I'm still stuck on this.......:confused:

 

I did learn something great though.....how the 6th and the 9th are related.

 

I tried an internet search for F#sus4b5 just to see if I could find something since I'm still stuck trying to find the right sound for the song I am trying to learn. The result made me laugh as they are all links to tabs to the song I am trying to learn "Si doucement" by Harmonium. Is this the only song where this is used :D

 

A few of them define the chord as follows :

 

define: F#sus4/C# 1 0 2 3 4 2 -1}

{define: F#sus4b5/C 1 0 1 3 4 2 -1}

or

 

{define: F#sus4/C# base-fret 1 frets -1 2 4 3 2 0 }

# {define: F#sus4b5/C 1 0 1 3 4 2 -1}

{define: F#sus4b5/C base-fret 1 frets -1 2 4 3 1 0 }

 

Real confusing to me.....

 

Help ! :(

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Like I said before, F#sus4b5/C is a really srewball name for the chord, and not my first choice in how to name it. It's one of those names you only see in chord name generators and take each note of the chord literally and don't take into consideration any context of the chord. It still seems to me like whoever named that chord in the chart you have just typed the frets into a chord name generator and put that in, rather than actually thinking about what it should be.

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