C7#9 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is C7#9. 7#9 chord's are commonly known by guitarist's as 'The Hendrix Chord', though jazzer's prefer to call them altered chords. We've featured a few other Hendrix chords and altered jazz guitar chords in previous posts.
This guitar chord is fairly simple to play but is less well known than the regular Hendrix chord inversion. This inversion has its root on the top E string of the guitar.

7#9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, b7, #9
C7#9 uses the notes: C, E, G,Bb, D#
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: E, Bb, Eb, C

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E7#5#9 | The Hendrix Chord Variation

A little while ago we featured a small mini-series of Hendrix Guitar Chords. Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is a much less known fingering of the famous Hendrix Chord that you can throw in for some more variation.
This guitar inversion involves more of a stretch than some of the other inversions of this chord we've featured before, though even more stretching is needed to play these stretch guitar chords.

7#9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, #5, b7, #9
E7#9 uses the notes: E, G#, B#, D, F## [G]
Today's guitar chord uses the notes in this order: E, G#, B#, D, F## [G]

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G sus2

Hendrix Chords

The next chord in our Jimi Hendrix chords mini series at Guitar Chord of the Day is a sus2 chord. Jimi used this chord lots, you can here it being slide up and down the fretboard at the beginning and end of Castles Made of Sand from his second album Axis: Bold As Love released in 1967, it's also used in Little Wing and many other Jimi songs.

This chord demonstrates another common technique that Jimi used: fretting notes with his thumb, as you can see in the photo at the top of the page.

Sus2 chords have no 3rd in them (the sus stands for suspended), they're neither major nor minor though Jimi usually used them in place of major chords. Because they're neither major or minor they can often be played instead of either.

Sus2 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 2, 5

G sus2 uses the notes: G, A, D

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: G, G, D, A

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Emajor9 - The first chord of Angel

Chords of Jimi Hendrix

Continuing our Hendrix mini-series here at http://chord-a-day.blogspot.com/ today's chord is a nice sounding E major9 chord. This chord is the very first guitar chord played at the start of 'Angel' from 'The Cry of Love' album released after his death.

We've featured an alternative E major9 inversion before. Remember that Hendrix tuned his guitar down a half step, so you'll sound a semitone higher unless you detune too. There's more info on Jimi's tuning in our first Hendrix chord post.

Here's the fingering for this guitar chord:

If you miss out the open E strings in this chord, you're playing a G#m7 chord.

Major 9 chords can be replace major 7th chords, and can often be played  in place of major chords. It can replace I and IV chords.

Major 9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

E Major 9 uses the notes: E, D#, G#, B, F#, E

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: E, F#, G#, D#, B, E.

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E7#9 'The Hendrix Chord'

'The Hendrix Chord'

Carrying on with the Jimi Hendrix chords mini-series at guitar chord of the day, we'll follow up yesterday's post with another fingering of the famous 'Hendrix Chord', used in Purple Haze, Stone Free, Cross Town Traffic and more

This chord is moveable and has it's root on the the D string, though if you play it in other keys you'll have to leave off the open bottom E String.

Here's the fingering for this guitar chord:

There's also another way to play the Hendrix Guitar chord here.
7#9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, b7, #9

E7#9 uses the notes: E, G#, B, D, F## (G)

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: E, G#, D, F## (G)

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D7#9 The Hendrix Chord

The 'Hendrix Chord'

Jimi Hendrix was so famous for using this chord in his riffs and songs that although it's officially called a 7#9 chord, often guitarists just refer to it as 'The Hendrix Chord'.

Here's the fingering for this guitar chord:

Hendrix tuned his guitar down a half step (tuning his guitar Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb rather than standard tuning of E, A, D, G, B, E). So his guitar sounds a semitone lower than a guitar in standard tuning (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Slash and a number of other blues rock guitarists tune down a half step in the same way).

This chord (played two frets higher in E) is the main chord of the Foxy Lady riff, used in Purple Haze, Stone Free and more.

7#9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, b7, #9

D7#9 uses the notes: D, F#, A, C, E# (F)

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: D, F#, C, E# (F)

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