{"id":7436,"date":"2018-11-28T16:39:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T00:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2018-11-28T16:39:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T00:39:49","slug":"voice-leading-with-6th-7th-and-9th-chords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/voice-leading-with-6th-7th-and-9th-chords\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice Leading With 6th, 7th, and 9th Chords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s video is just a fun move where you use a 6 chord (in this case, A6) as the I chord, then D7 and E9 for the IV and V chord.<\/p>\n<p>By doing that, you maintain the same top note the whole time (the F#) which just gives a fun sound and makes the chords really flow into one another.<\/p>\n<p>That flow from one chord to another is called voice leading, and it&#8217;s the practice of keeping the movement (in actual notes, not necessarily fingers!) to a minimum.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz players are often really good at this, but most blues players could stand to think this way too, it sounds really great.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy and use it!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" 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 width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r5kgddWf00g?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s video is just a fun move where you use a 6 chord (in this case, A6) as the I chord, then D7 and E9 for the IV and V chord. By doing that, you maintain the same top note the whole time (the F#) which just gives a fun sound and makes the chords [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436"}],"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=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7438,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions\/7438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}