{"id":69,"date":"2009-11-14T02:08:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T07:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2018-12-16T19:24:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T03:24:13","slug":"9th-chord-substitutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/9th-chord-substitutions\/","title":{"rendered":"9th chord substitutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we often talk about how blues is based around 7th chords, those are just suggested chords. In reality you can substitute the 7th chords for 9th chords&#8230; and you want to.<!--more-->Here&#8217;s a blues in C based around 7th and 9th chords. This one is straight out of lesson 3 from <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/bluesguitar.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a>. You probably won&#8217;t be able to get the chords just by looking (even a lesson 3 feet away from me can&#8217;t see them) so you&#8217;ll need to download the <a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/9th-chords.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a> of the whole lesson.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new embed\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:640px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:640px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/219183729?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<div style=\"height:20px\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"element\">\n<div class=\"downloadlist-title-container\">\n<h3 class=\"downloadlist-title\" style=\"font-size: 23px; padding: 4px;\">Download<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"downloadlist-2 border\">\n<li style=\"list-style: none;margin-top: 0;padding-top: 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/9th-chords.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/optimizePressTheme\/lib\/assets\/images\/file_download\/icons\/style2-thumb-dl-pdf.png\" alt=\"PDF of the tune and the chord diagrams.\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/pdf\/9th-chords.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF of the tune and the chord diagrams.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we often talk about how blues is based around 7th chords, those are just suggested chords. In reality you can substitute the 7th chords for 9th chords&#8230; and you want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2,6,35,36,13,11,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7474,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/7474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}