Klarinet Archive - Posting 000348.txt from 1998/06

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Jazz question
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 16:54:08 -0400

On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 Maestro645@-----.com wrote:
> What typ up notes make up a sus chord? Use the C Major Chord as the basis for
> explaining the answer please.

Generally, you suspend the third, unless otherwise suspended:
Normal C major 7: CEGBb (Bnat MM7)
Sus C Major 7: CFGBb (Bnat MM7)

(This is a 4-3 suspension).

Any suspended chord usually resolves to the normal counterpart, even if
only briefly, although there is flexibility in this as far as jazz goes.
Other suspensions maybe specified are the 6-5 (you'll see 'sus5')
6-5 Sus : CEABb (Bnat MM7) Resolves: CEGBb

This suspension is more commonly seen in 9, 11, and 13 chords. You may
also see 9-8 and 3-2 suspensions. The 9-8, you suspend a D a ninth above
the bass (should be tonic), and resolve it to a parallel tonic.
3-2s aren't something you'll be seeing jazz, I think. I THINK.

> Also, (using agin the C Major chord for an example for an answer) what does Co
> mean? (That's a C chord with a small circle by it.) What notes are in that?

A circle is the standard symbol for diminished in any form of notation.
Where seventh chords are concerned, it refers to a fully diminished 7
chord, and a half diminished chord is represented with a slashed circle.

Diminished chords usually resolve to a major minor, a standard vi-ii*-V-I
sort of progression. In jazz, you'll also see this in a secondary
form: bVI/vi-ii*/vi-V/vi-vi-ii*-V-I, or similar forms.

A good example is Mark Taylor's Time Bomb, which uses this progression.

Shouryu Nohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe; ICQ 6771552
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