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An altered seventh chord is a seventh chord with one, or all, [15] of its factors raised or lowered by a semitone (altered), for example, the augmented seventh chord (7+ or 7+5) featuring a raised fifth (C E G ♯ B ♭ [16] (C 7+5: C–E–G ♯ –B ♭). The factors most likely to be altered are the fifth, then the ninth, then the thirteenth ...
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Four and one half steps down from standard Drop A. Used by Within the Ruins on the album Phenomena with the variation C-F-c-f-A#-D-G. Drop B0 – B-F ♯-B-E-A-C ♯-F ♯ / B-G ♭-B-E-A-D ♭-G ♭ Five full steps down from standard Drop A. Six full steps (one octave) down from a baritone Drop B guitar
In jazz harmony, the dominant seventh flat five may be considered an altered chord, created by lowering the fifth of a dominant seventh chord, and may use the whole-tone scale, [1] as may the augmented minor seventh chord, or the Lydian ♭ 7 mode, [2] as well as most of the modes of the Neapolitan major scale, such as the major Locrian scale ...
Borrowed chords are typically used as "color chords", providing harmonic variety through contrasting scale forms, which are major scales and the three forms of minor scales. [2] Chords may also be borrowed from other parallel modes besides the major and minor mode, for example D Dorian with D major. [ 1 ]
Power chords are also referred to as fifth chords, indeterminate chords, or neutral chords [citation needed] (not to be confused with the quarter tone neutral chord, a stacking of two neutral thirds, e.g. C–E –G) since they are inherently neither major nor minor; generally, a power chord refers to a specific doubled-root, three-note voicing ...
In 1945, Sonny Boy Williamson I adapted the tune as an early Chicago blues with Big Maceo (piano), Tampa Red (guitar), and Charles Sanders (drums). [9] Titled "Stop Breaking Down", the song featured somewhat different lyrics, including the refrain "I don't believe you really really love me, I think you just like the way my music sounds" in place of Johnson's "The stuff I got it gon' bust your ...
In bluegrass music, a break is a short instrumental solo played between sections of a song and is conventionally a variation on the song's melody. A breakdown is an instrumental form that features a series of breaks, each played by a different instrument.