Re: The Not-an-Add9 Chord



On 10 Dec 2011, David Raleigh Arnold <d.raleigh.arnold@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote in alt.guitar.beginner:

I agree, but a more academically correct name is Bm11.
or Bm11/a for the bass player. Regards, daveA

My label is flawed in that it doesn't say anything about the presence
or absence of the third. I tend to hear it as a D major chord when it's
disembodied like this, but in context it could be a D minor chord. But
the voicing to too far away from a vanilla Bm for me to hear it that
way, unless it was in a context that supported that function.
.



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