[__tsidewinder__]

Hey, I've found a jazz chord progression, and would like to make a backing track out of it. Problem is, the progression is written out in chord symbols, and jazz has some very strange and unusual chords in it, and so I can't play some of these chords. Can anyone help me? here is the progression as written:

--Bbmi9 - Cmi7/Bb - Bbmi9 - D - C - Cb - Bbmi9 - Bbmi9 - Dadd9 - Eb9 - Eb - Eb9 - D - C - Cb - Bbmi9 - Cmi7/Bb - Bbmi9 - Cbadd9 - F7sus - Eb/F - E - Ebadd9 - D - C - Cb - Bbmi9 - F7(#9)--

The lines are just there for seperation, I added those. The double lines are also added, don't worry about those either.

Now I know how to play C, D, Cb, Eb, E, and thats it. Some of the others I might, with my current music theory knowledge, put together, such as the Dadd9, Eb9, Cbadd9, and Eb/F, Cmi7/Bb. Even so, I'd like verfification on those for sure. Also, I wrote out the whole thing so that others can try it out, and have some fun with it.

I'm hoping I can get this thing together by the end of today, thats my goal anyhow. I'll post the chords I figure out as I get them, if things work out nicely.

So please, if anyone can put up the fingerings on those I need help with, I'd be grateful.

oh, and I'm pretty sure its in Bb, although the piece of music I got this from is a trumpet piece, and I'm still a bit confused over the whole deal, where the trumpets C note is really a Bb and so on, so if the trumpet is in Bb, maybe the piece is really in C, I really don't know. I'm confused about that. I'm figuring out the chords as if it where in Bb, anyhow. If someone could clear up this whole issue, that'd be nice.

[Fong]

Its quite a mental chore to work out some of those chords.

and I am sorely tempted to just cheat and use a chord place on the web.

Something like:
Guitar Chords

But people might want to use this as a mental excercise, so I won't post the cheated answers

[__tsidewinder__]

Well Fong, the main idea was simply to figure out how to play those chords, learning how to figure out chord symbols was simply going to be a benfitial byproduct. Turns out I tried to cheat before you posted, but ended up using an inferior program which didn't have certain chords.

So, yup, I'm "cheating", and not ashamed neither.

Thanks for that link, its quite the resource. In my favourites now, certain I'll use it again.

[allthumbs]

They are just 9th chords, Some minor, Some just add nine which means you don't b the 7th. Play the simple chord and add the extensions. The slash chords are probably just common chord inversions for the most part.

[Noodler]

Fong, by the end of the day??? You don't want much!!

If I was trying to go from basic chords to those types of extensions in a day and I had a way to record, I'd lay down the basic chords over the bassline. Those polychords eg F7sus to E to Eb/F to Ebadd9 to D are so you get a nice jazzy-sounding chromatic descending bassline: F, E, Eb, to D. It might sound nice enough to just record that bassline and play over just that.

Key signature

The sheet music should tell you which instrument the piece is for. If it is in Bb, it is proabably written for guitar or piano to play along with sax, trumpet, etc. Their music for the same piece would be written in C. But anyone who's played with brass a lot feel free to clarify...