Friday, September 13, 2013

C7 9 Guitar Chord

Todays Guitar Chord of the Day is C7#9. 7#9 chords are commonly known by guitarists as The Hendrix Chord, though jazzers prefer to call them altered chords. Weve featured a few other Hendrix chords and altered jazz guitar chords in previous posts.

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.

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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