CmMaj9 guitar chord
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About CmMaj9 — drop 3 voicings
CmMaj9 is C, Eb, G, B and D. It keeps every note of and adds the .
CmMaj9 and both contain the 9th. The difference is the 7th: CmMaj9 uses , while uses the flat 7th.
Choose between them by the seventh under a held 9th. The minor 3rd remains in both chords.
Also written CmM9, Cm(maj9) or C-Δ9.
What is drop 3
Drop the third voice from the top an octave instead. The wider gap skips a string, so the muted string is part of the shape.
That result, 3–R–5–7, is the shape usually meant by drop 3. Named by its bass note, as the inversions are here, it is the 1st inversion.
More familiar jazz shapes are drop 3 than drop 2.
How to use CmMaj9
How you get to it. The turn that lands on CmMaj9 is to : the ii and the V of C minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
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What to play over CmMaj9
Useful scales
- +FAb
Contains CmMaj9 and adds eleventh and flat thirteenth.
- +FA
Contains CmMaj9 and adds eleventh and thirteenth.
Chords near CmMaj9
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