Tuesday, 8 June 2010

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.
C7#9 Guitar Chord
C7#9 guitar chord


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.
C7#9 guitar chord

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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