[Dixielandjazz] Suspended Chords

[Cholmondeley Edkins]

the Csus you describe sounds more like a C suspicious nevertheless, it is worth a try. 

Could be a bit of modern jazz creeping in here

I think our "BG" is right

Chumley from Whitchurch

----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Friday, 22 September, 2006 11:13:58 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Suspended Chords

No doubt about it, suspended chords are neat.

Like take a CFG (Csus4) and invert it (separated by 4ths) as FCG. You could
write it as a C/F chord, I'll leave that up to the theory folks to explain.

Or think "power" chords used by R & R guitarists. Drop the 3rd, (or sus4th)
and just play a 1,5. Thus you get a Bill Gunter "average" chord that could
be either a major or a minor . . . which ever way you want to go.

But don't blame it on the rockers, the 1,5 chord has been around for a very
long time in music. Heck, didn't J.S. Bach do a bunch of counterpoint via
5ths way back when?

But it was a rock guitarist who figured out you could do an entire song
using them only about 40 or 50 years ago. :-) VBG

Now, how about sus46 chords?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


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