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symbols, sound and when to use them

Ninth, eleventh and thirteenth stack thirds above the seventh, building dense, colourful chords. They’re the vocabulary of jazz, bossa and R&B: more colour and more tension, always under control.

Symbols in this family · 10 qualities

Every symbol opens that chord’s own page: what it is, how it sounds, when to use it and its diagram on all four instruments.

C9Cmaj9Cm9C11Cm11C13Cmaj13Cm13Cmaj11Cm(maj9)

Other chord families

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