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Originally Posted by allthumbs
Ah Jim, about that Bbsus2. I have been puzzling over it and finally a friend more savy than I pointed out that the chord is more likely a Bb +9 since a sus 2 is 1,2,5. Your chord has a 3 and a 9 which would make it a +9 since the 1 hasn't been flattened to a b7. Forgive me belabouring the point. I just want to make it clear for any others following this thread with less theory than you and I. I have to admit that that had me going for a while. I tend to see the chord extentions I can play as well as the chord itself so it kind of all blended together for me till it was pointed out about the basic chord. That is a bad habit I will have to watch out for.
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Add9 sounds reasonable. I think Fagan from Steely Dan used to just call it a mu chord! LOL That inversion is a Steely Dan type of chord btw which others have argued about it being a sus2 because of the position of the 3rd which is below the octave. If I remember correctly, since the top part of the chord contains the R25 the predominant harmony is the sus2. Even more baffling is the add9 chords I use because they are missing the third!
I just hear these nice sounds and leave the identification to those who like to study such things because I have a hard time remembering all those rules. I seem to break them anyway so it does not serve me well to be bogged down with all that.
However, I do run into spelling issues! Charlie says that the shorthand approach in identifying a chord sometimes is just not going to work. It is at that point you go to notes. LOL
I have no final answer...
Backing track to follow!
