More Chord Questions.

[Joe Pass Jr]

Im back again with chord dilemmas

Recently i grabbed a chart for a peice called 'Room 335' from some random website. It has a really groovy feel to it. But unfortunatley I cant fully play it. since the chart was thrown together in a simple txt file, i think they may have logged the progressions wrong.

Dmaj7 / D6/9
Bmin7 / Amaj7
Dmaj7 B9/E9 Fmaj7D9
D9 F/G Gmaj7.

This is basically what confused me. What your looking at is the end of the verse progression. Im just not sure if B9/E9 is a chord??! or if the slash is telling me to play the Dmaj and the B9 in one bar. But if this is the case, ill be playing E9 Fmaj7 D9 in the next bar. Same goes with the next line down. is F/G the chord, or D9/F. Still new to jazz, so either could be correct. Not to mention i dont have the melody to compare it to.

I could allways just play what works for me, and this is what i did. Just wondering if anyone knows what the author means exactly, or if anyone is familiar with the peice itself.

peace.

[Poparad]

In the 3rd line, it's quite clear that B9 and E9 are seperate chords, because there is nothing even remotely like a "B9/E9" chord in western chord notation. It would be safe to assume that E9, Fmaj7, and D9 are all in a bar.

However, the 4th line is much more ambiguous. It could either be a bar with a D9 chord and an F major chord, followed by a bar with a G major chord and a Gmaj7 chord, or it could be simply three chords: D9, F/G, and Gmaj7. In either case, listening to a recording is the easiest way to resolve the confusion, and in the case of the F/G confusion, it will be readily apparent when listening to a recording what the chart is supposed to be indicating.

[dusura]

I like that tune too! It has a pretty nice feel to it. Apparently Larry Carlton intentionally stole part of the progression from Steely Dan's "Peg". If you have a recording of both you can hear the similarities.

I think this is the full chords you are referring to right?

http://www.bluesblast.com/r335chords.txt

I don't have the original recording but I have the version from the Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather Live in Osaka album. Listening to that version (at least) your chords seem mostly correct...

except they don't play this:
Dmaj 7 B9/E9 Fmaj7D9
D9 F/G Gmaj7

They play this:
Dmaj7 D6/9 Cmaj7 C6/9
Gmaj7 G6/9 / /

[leegordo]

Originally Posted by Poparad

In the 3rd line, it's quite clear that B9 and E9 are seperate chords, because there is nothing even remotely like a "B9/E9" chord in western chord notation. It would be safe to assume that E9, Fmaj7, and D9 are all in a bar.

However, the 4th line is much more ambiguous. It could either be a bar with a D9 chord and an F major chord, followed by a bar with a G major chord and a Gmaj7 chord, or it could be simply three chords: D9, F/G, and Gmaj7. In either case, listening to a recording is the easiest way to resolve the confusion, and in the case of the F/G confusion, it will be readily apparent when listening to a recording what the chart is supposed to be indicating.

lee here ,in many yr's playing from music shop type copies ( piano with guitar and banjo symbols) I was always informed that a chord symbol having a forward slash in there followed by a single note name - like for intance---C7/E, meant play a C7th chord, but with an 'E' in the bass instead of the root-'C'