DmMaj9 guitar chord
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About DmMaj9 — drop 3 voicings
DmMaj9 is D, F, A, C# and E. It keeps every note of and adds the .
DmMaj9 and both contain the 9th. The difference is the 7th: DmMaj9 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 DmM9, Dm(maj9) or D-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 DmMaj9
How you get to it. The turn that lands on DmMaj9 is to : the ii and the V of D minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
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What to play over DmMaj9
Useful scales
- +GBb
Contains DmMaj9 and adds eleventh and flat thirteenth.
- +GB
Contains DmMaj9 and adds eleventh and thirteenth.
Chords near DmMaj9
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