If you flatten the 9th, that creates that sound. I’m not talking about a Major 9th, I’m talking about regular 9th. The principle is, by the way a 9th, a dominant 9th always includes a 7th. Music would be very boring if there was no tension at all, and so the Flat 9th chord is a chord that you can create tension with. You have a period of relaxing sounds, consonant sounds, then you get them dissonant sounds, and that creates tension. Music is really a basic, is a matter of going between tension and relaxation. ![]() In other words, this creates a lot of tension, doesn’t it? Then that’s relaxation. If I put in the Flat 9th, you see how much that, I call it a tightener, because it in my mind tightens the chords and wants it to move on to the next resolution. If I don’t put in the 9th, it sounds like that, I mean the Flat 9th, it sounds like that. If I was playing Misty, that’s the “G” 7th chord, but I’m putting in a 9th. ![]() Here’s a “G” 7th, if I flat the 9th, see how that tightens it. Let’s say I’m playing on “C”, and I’m going to “F”, that’s a Flat 9th. Then a flat 9th is really a tightener, it really wants to move. ![]() If “C” 7th is a pregnant chord, and it is, it wants to move around the circle of 5ths usually to the next chord, which is F. If I put in a 9th, that would be a D, right? A Flat 9th is just what is says, you lower the 9th a half step. Let me just play, I’ll play a “C” 7th chord. In other words, it tightens the chord and it really wants to move onto the next chord. Today we’re going to take up the f lat 9th chord. It’s not used a lot except by more advanced pianists, but it should be, because it’s really easy to form, and it’s a good tightener. We’ve been doing a series on Good Stuff You Really Ought To Know About Music, and it has to do with music theory.
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