| 7/8 |
Rhythm |
7/8 means that there are seven quaver (eighth note) beats per bar |
| 7#11 |
Theory |
A dominant 7th chord with the #11 added as an extension. |
| 7#5 |
Theory |
he dominant seventh flat five chord (7b5) is a dominant seventh chord with a fifth lowered by a semitone. It is built with a root (1), a major third (3), a diminished fifth (b5) and a minor seventh (b7). The dominant b5 chord is an extremely important sound in jazz music due to its dissonant and unresolved sound |
| 7#9 |
Theory |
A dominant 7 chord with the #9 added |
| 7b5 |
Theory |
The dominant seventh flat five chord (7b5) is a dominant seventh chord with a fifth lowered by a semitone. It is built with a root (1), a major third (3), a diminished fifth (b5) and a minor seventh (b7). The dominant b5 chord is an extremely important sound in jazz music due to its dissonant and unresolved sound |
| 7b9 |
Theory |
Dominant seventh flat ninth chords (7b9) are built by lowering the ninth of dominant 9 chords by one semitone, giving the harmonic formula : 1 (root), 3 (major third), 5 (perfect fifth), b7 (minor seventh) and b9 (minor ninth). |
| 7th Arpeggios |
Fretboard Knowledge |
Arpeggios consisting of 1 3 5 7 of any given chord. |
| 7th chords |
Chords/Harmony |
Chords made up from the 1,3,5,7 |
| 8 String |
Genre |
An eight string guitar |
| 9/8 |
Rhythm |
9/8 means that there are nine quaver (eighth note) beats per bar. You count 9/8 bars as either 9 beats per bar (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) or you can count them as 3 dotted quarter notes per bar. Examples of pieces in 9/8 |
| 9th Arpeggios |
Fretboard Knowledge |
Arpeggios consisting of 1 3 5 7 9 of any given chord. |
| 9th Chords |
Chords/Harmony |
7th Chords with the 9th added |
| Accent |
Phrasing |
An emphasised note |
| Accidental |
Theory |
A symbol that's used to lower or raise the pitch of a note in moststandard notation. These symbols are a sharp (♯), a flat (♭), or a natural sign (♮). |
| Acoustic |
Genre |
A guitar that does not require electrical amplification, having a hollow body that amplifies the string vibrations |
| Add9 |
Theory |
Adding the 9th degree to the triad. |
| Aeolian |
Modes/Scales |
The Aeolian mode is a musical mode or, in modern usage, a diatonic scale also called the natural minor scale. On the white piano keys, it is the scale that starts with A. Its ascending interval form consists of a key note, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step. |
| Aeolian b5 |
Modes/Scales |
The Aeolian b5 scale is the 6th mode of the melodic minor scale. The scale can be thought of as the Aeolian scale with a b5 taken from the Blues scale. This scale works well over a m7b5 chords and for building tension over minor tonalities in general. |
| Album |
Progression/Song Form |
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. |
| Altered Chords |
Chords/Harmony |
An altered chord is a chord that replaces one or more notes from the diatonic scale with a neighboring pitch from the chromatic scale. By the broadest definition, any chord with a non-diatonic chord tone is an altered chord. |
| Altered Dominant |
Chords/Harmony |
An altered dominant chord is a dominant chord that typically has a raised or lowered 9th and/or a raised or lowered 5th |
| Altered Pentatonic |
Modes/Scales |
A pentatonic scale taken from the Altered scale. 1 b3 3 #5 b7 |
| Altered scale |
Modes/Scales |
The altered scale is a dominant scale where all the non-defining chord tones are altered. The three essential notes that define any chord are the root, the third, and the seventh (dominant chord = root, major third, flat seventh). Any note that isn't the root, the third, or the seventh can be altered. |
| Altered Tuning |
Misc |
Tunings other than the standard EADGBE on a six string guitar. These can be achieved by changing the tuning of any or all of the strings. |
