Calt

Calt is C, E, G#, Bb and Db, a altered dominant. The shape this page opens on is written x32x12, lowest string first.

There are 8 common shapes for Calt on the guitar, and 20 derived voicings in 2 families.

The common shapes, written lowest string first: x32x12, x32552, x34550, x34553, 87x978, x-x-10-9-7-8, 8-9-10-9-x-8, x-x-10-11-13-12.

Shell. Root, third and seventh: the guide tones fix the quality, so the fifth is dropped. That is what leaves a string free, so pick a tension to put on top. Calt has x3232x, 8786xx, x-x-10-9-11-9, x-15-14-15-14-x, x3x354, 8x899x.

Rootless. The root left to the bass player. Frees a finger for a tension. Calt has x1212x, xx2324, xx6656, xx8999, x-11-11-9-11-x, x-x-11-13-11-12, x-13-14-13-14-x, x1x120.

Tensions. A shell of Calt, root, third and seventh, leaves a string free, and the tones that belong over it are the #11 (F#).

The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in where the chords and the theory come from.