
	How Music Works 1) Sound and Music 2) The Major Scale 3) Chords and Harmony Overview Interval Sizes Interval Names Intervals and Degrees Building Chords Degrees and Notes Triad Chords Chord Note Naming Harmonic Extensions Other Major Chords Minor Chords Diminished Chords Augmented Chords Major Flat Fifth Chords Suspended Chords Other Chord Types 4) Scales and Melody 5) Meter and Rhythm 6) Chord/Scale Relations 7) Playing with Chords 8) Playing with Scales 9) Writing Songs


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(3.9) Other Major Chords

Many other chord types can be formed from the major triad, using other degrees, or a combination of harmonic and other degrees. These are listed below.

The names of these chord types tend to be based on how their degrees differ from their closest harmonically extended chord type.

For example, the seventh sharp ninth chord (7#9) chord differs from the dominant seventh chord (7) only in the addition of the extra #9th degree.

ChordWizard products use the concept of required degrees in the definitions of chord types. Required degrees of a chord type must be present in a group of notes for them to be identified as a chord of that type.

The required degrees of the standard chord types in ChordWizard products are carefully chosen. For example, the 7#9 chord type has #9 as a required degree.

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