Q. I am starting to learn to play piano chords for our church worship team and I have a few questions....
1. What is the difference between a B4 chord and a Bsus Chord?
- I've looked both of them up and keep finding B, E, F# for both.
2. What is a B5 Chord?
3. How am I supposed to play a F#m11 Chord???
- My fingers don't even reach all the notes!
Thanks!
A. Relax, its easy.
We give numbers to the position of the notes in the scale. There are only seven notes in music (A B C D E F G) so when you reach the next note with the same names they just repeat over but now they are called 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 and 15 would be the same as the first note that you had.
eg on C Major
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C
Chords are made using the 1+3+5 notes of the tonic scale. (tonic means sound name, fromthe word tone)
The Major chord is 1 3 5
The minor chord is 1 b3 5
A suspended chord has the middle note REMOVED so that there is neither a Major or a minor interval. So a suspended chord would use 1 2 4 5. this is because it uses ALL the notes with the 3 interval removed.
sus = 1 2 4 5
sus2= 1 2 5 (The number is added so that you will only play that note and not both)
sus4= 1 4 5 (the number is added so that you will only play that note and not both.)
So B4 (is not really a chord, so its probably a misprint. You will have to judge by sound.)
B4 would be just two notes= 1 4
Bsus= B C# E F#
Bsus2=B C# F#
Bsus4=B E F#
B4= B E
B5= B F#
when they write a chord as a 5 chord they are telling you to only play two notes from the chord, the first and the fifth. This is sometimes called a power chord and its just a quick way to write it.
Okay, now to the chords you cant reach.
You play notes up to the EIGHTH with your left hand, anything from NINE or higher is played in your right hand. Youre just using two hands to play one chord.
NOTICE that C6 is an A and C13 is also an A. the chord is the same, you just add the note into your r.h.
You wont be stretching. I can reach a tenth, thats about the maximum. (Some men=really tall ones can reach a 12 but its rare)
Major= 1 3 5
minor= 1 b3 5
dim= 1 b3 b5
aug(+) 1 3 #5
7= 1 3 5 b7
M7=1 3 5 7
9= 1 3 5 b7 9
11=1 3 4 b7 9 11
13=1 3 5 b7 9 11 13
F#m11= 1 b3 5 b7 9 11
= F# A C# E G# B
(NOTE: ANY chord that has a number HIGHER than a 7 INCLUDES the 7 in the chord!=important!)
So, you would play F#m7 in your left hand= F# A C# E
and you would play G#m in your right= G# B
OR OR OR
You would play F#m l.h.=F# A C# and E in r.h.= E G# B Its the same chord)
either way the B has to be played in the RH for the chord to be correct, if it was in the lower octave (LH) it would have been called a sus4!)
If you want to cheat (Make it easer) just play F#m in LH and a single B in the R.H. (they wont notice)
Playing chords like this is sometimes called POLYCHORDS (Some made up term that doesnt really exist but...)
http://www.jazztheorylessons.com
/category/chord-theory/
Have fun!
Cat
(sorry about the error I've now corrected-it was 3am here...For some reason I wrote the answer for F#m13! It is corrected now...hope I didnt confuse you too much...)
what are sus and 2nd chords?
Q. ok, some im starting a praise band for my youth group and i play guitar. ive played for about 2 1/2 years, but i cant learn any of the songs because the chords are really wierd. theyre like, c2 and Bsus. what are they? help please!
A. Chester is correct.
It's incomplete for a chord to read "Bsus". It should say Bsus2 or Bsus4. And C2 should read Cadd2. Suspended chords are used extensively in today's Christian rock music, so if you're not familiar with them, get a chord book or chart. Sometimes suspended chords are played against major chords; that is, the piano might be playing a G chord, while the guitar is playing a Gsus4 against it, or a riff from the notes of a Gsus4. It's not a bad clash but it takes some getting used to, at least for someone of my generation (almost 50). It's actually kind o' cool.
The tune I linked is an example of a sus chord riff being played against a major chord, especially at the chorus, around 1 minute in. One guitar is playing an E chord-based riff that alternates between A and G#, giving it a back-and-forth between Esus4 and E major. It gently clashes with the other instruments, making the song a bit more edgy.
is there such chord as C#sus?
Q. or is it impossible or no such thing as a sharp suspended chord? cause i haven't heard of any, i transposed a song and the Bsus became a C#sus. and it just looks wrong. help me
A. Yep, it exists.
Here it is for guitar:
http://guitarwebapp.com/index.php?md=4&rn=9&ct=5&fm=0
And for piano:
http://www.piano-lessons-info.com/chart-of-piano-chords.html
I'm a pretty mediocre guitarist so I don't play chords like this if I can help it. If you're playing a guitar you might try using a capo to transpose.
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