Re: Chords and what they mean

[Brett Duncan]

On 19/09/15 7:52 PM, Blöchl Bernhard wrote:
> A bit OT:
>
> For anybody having doubts if sus chords are of any use, I found a nice 
> example in jazz. In Herbie Hancock’s jazz piece Maiden Voyage one can 
> recognize examples of sus chords covering D7sus, F7sus, Eb7sus, and 
> F#7sus (C#-13). Lilipond unhappily omits the sus in this combinations.

Just to be clear, in Hancock's piece and other jazz standards, D7sus is 
not simply a 7th chord with the third omitted. As Mark Levine explained 
in the "The Jazz Piano Book" (Sher Music Co. 1989), for D7sus (or simply 
"Dsus" as it appears in some arrangements) Herbie played a C major triad 
(with the G doubled) over the root and fifth on the left hand. The 
effect of this was that the right hand was playing the 7th, 9th and 11th 
(or if you prefer, 7th, 2nd and 4th). Hence Levine's description of a 
sus chord: the " major triad in the right hand [is] a whole step down 
from the root".

Brett