LEARN SUS 4 CHORDS - EASY METHOD- Part 1 on Superimposed Chords. How to form/play Sus 4 dominant 9.

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[00:00:00][music] [music] [music] Starting out, I want to talk about superimposed chords. Now, this sounds rather complicated, but I want this lesson to be something valuable to beginner level and intermediate and advanced. And if you're advanced, you can use the forward button. You know how to do that, I hope. Uh that's the the arrows on your keyboard.

[00:00:43]And if you want to slow it down or stop it, you can use the space button to stop it and start it. And if you want to slow it down, you can go into the wheel below the video and select speed at 0.5. So you can slow everything down. So I hope you know about that. Anyway, I'm going to start out by saying what is a superimposed chord? Well, let's take just for example a C minor 7 [music] like that. Root root flat 3 5 7. Then put on top of it 9 11 13. [music] How am I finding those? Well, I'm just counting up. But I have a C minor 7 and [music] a D minor 7 stacked. So they're superimposed on top of each other. And this is modern music. This has a lot to do with uh Aaron Copelan, Duke Ellington. Modern composers have used this for years. And I'm going to try to simplify it for you so that you can understand it and h find it useful not only for cording in a hipper way in a in a good jazz type of cording or also for pop music and so on but also to improvise on. So now the first one I'm going to do is I'm going to talk about [music] the suspended fourth. Now let's just say we're going to go up to the fourth step. going to hold it there and that's suspended over the bar according to the traditional music [music] and then it resolves there to the third like like an [music] amen. So now you can add the seventh the flat 7th to that like that.

[00:02:12]Now you have a suspended [music] fourth with a seventh or a C7 sus4.

[00:02:17]Now, the other way I can do it is I can just take the the triad there, the three notes, [music] and move them down a whole step to B flat. Now, I have a suspended fourth with a ninth. How do I know that? Root flat 7 9. There's my nine, and there's my suspended fourth.

[00:02:33][music] Or you can call it 11, right? 7 8 9 10 11. So, there's a dominant 11th chord [music] or a I would call it a C7 sus 4. Now, that works for any key. And you know, like for an F, you go down a whole step. So, there's an easy way to find it. When you see a suspended fourth, it doesn't have to be a mystery.

[00:02:53]How how do I find that? Just go down a whole step [music] from whatever your root is. Like, if it's G, go down. Now, you can invert the uh you can invert this chord on the top any way you like.

[00:03:05]That sounds good. As long [music] as you have that root in the bass there, you can I can put an F chord here. Any any inversion of an F chord is going to create a G9 [music] sus. Now, so for the same thing with C, let's look at this.

[00:03:19]There's a C9 sus. Let's invert it. Any inversion [music] will work, you know.

[00:03:25]So, like you you hear this in modern music like, you know, usually resolves or sometimes it goes [music] and then eventually resolves like that to the one. So, it's used as often as a tension chord.

[00:03:46]open and then [music] more tension and then resolve like that.

[00:03:51]So now there's another way to think about this chord which is slightly more complex. You know we started with the C going down to the B [music] flat. The other way to think about it is is that there's a G minor 7 against the C. Now what that means is the two chord [music] in which C is the five moving to F now is played in its root position or inverted and [music] then the five is played in the bass. Now what we have there is the same type of chord. It's it's [music] a root five flat 7 9 suspended fourth or 11. So you can think of it that way too.

[00:04:31]So that's what I'm going to show you now in the example. I'm going to use that chord to show you a lick that I will play using these chords.

[00:04:44]Okay. So applying this to jazz now, I'm just going to play the C7 sus4 like this. So like what I have now is the C in [music] the bass. the C bass. Then I'm putting a G minor 7 chord, [music] but I'm putting it into a third inversion and [music] then dropping the root, adding the ninth. So I'm getting that nice close voicing in [music] there. It's a pretty voicing. So like I have the C in the bass and I go, here's the lick [music] resolving it to F now. So you see how it resolves resolves to an F69. So [music] now you have this. So now you can use that for cording.

[00:05:34][music] Now same thing transposed to the key of C would be this.

[00:05:43]Now this is written out for you so you don't have to learn it here. You can slow the video down. You can go past [music] this if you want to go forward and and and get to the more advanced stuff, but this is the beginning. So, here I have a G suspended fourth with a ninth added now because it's the D minor. Now, it's [music] D minor in first inversion adding the ninth. So, now I have this.

[00:06:10]Now, how would I resolve that if I wanted to? Well, [music] it resolves like this. There's the It always goes from the four to the three. So, and then [music] it resolves there to the C chord. So, we're thinking of this chord as being a dominant seventh that's moving to a one. And that's how it's applied here. Signing off from the Jazz Ranch. Thanks so much for tuning in today. I want to give you a little shout out on my book. This is my book called Jazz Piano Methods and Song Book for Professional Playing. I've sold thousands of copies. I have a special sale going on right now. If you buy my book, you'll get my 140 page appendix of exercises for free.

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[00:07:40]We'll see you next time around and be cool. Bye-bye.

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