Major 9 Chords for Jazz Guitar

Video Transcript

"I’m a professional guitar instructor and today we’ll be discussing advanced jazz guitar. Okay now let’s discuss the major 9 so kind of a little bit differently then we normally do but now that we’ve discussed the dominate 9 and some variations on it. Let’s go back and do the major 9, so just unflatting that 7th we’re going to have a root, 3rd, natural 7th and 9th, the 5th really isn’t going to be a possibility here unless we flat the 5th, so D-major 7 or D-major 9 I’m sorry but with a flatted 5th here…doing that by borrowing with my index finger the same finger I’m playing the 3rd with. So you got D-major 7…and then we got D-major 7…flat 5 now another way of saying flat 5 would be referring to it as a sharp 11th, the 11th note of the major scales going to be the same as the 4th, so a flat 4th and a flatted 5th both of those are referred to collectively as a triton or they’re the same intervals it’s the same thing so often times you’ll see jazz pieces or jazz charts referring to when they want you to have a chord with a flatted 5th, instead they’ll call it a sharp 11. I’m not sure to the advantage to this but it isn’t uncommon, so once again here’s the D-major 9 chord…and the D-major 9 flat 5 or D-major 9 sharp 11…"