Re: A weird chord

[Brett McCoy]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Tim McNamara <address@hidden> wrote:

> My advice would be to just write a Gb7 or to pick just one extension,
> perhaps whichever coincides best with the melody note in that measure (e.g.,
> Gb7b9 if the melody note is a G or Gb7#9 if it's an A; if it's neither, I
> would go with the Gb7).  Speaking as a musician, most of the extended chords
> in the Real Book are superfluous and really should be written more vanilla.
>  The melody is carrying the extension and it's often not necessary to repeat
> that in the chord on guitar or piano.  If I was faced with a chart with
> Gb7b9#9 I'd probably just play a Gb7.

I ended up doing G7b9 for two beats and G7#9 for two beats, as the
melody lines modulates across the chords anyway. The chord as was
originally written is impossible to play on a guitar, and any
guitarist would likely play it this way, depending on the lead
voicings

-- Brett
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