How to Voice an Altered D Major Chord

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So now you might be asking, well, I have this chord and it says D major, flat nine, sharp seven, what do I do for that? How do I make that chord? So, it's a very simple process and a lot of people overthink it. But it's very simple. So we numbered our scale, right, one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen. All it really is is, say it's this sharp eleven, you take the eleven and bring it up a notch. So instead of having this, now you have this, right, one, nine, three, sharp eleven, five, thirteen. You can hear that sound. So what you're really doing is getting altered chords out of this. Say you have a D major flat nine, so it looks like this, here's our nine, right, take it down a notch, and we have this new scale. Kind of sounds evil. It's darker colors to it. But you might notice, now the G is a color tone. By altering this tone we made a note that was in the scale but sounded out of the scale, we made it sound in the scale, but you also notice now our major seven sounds out of the scale right. So by altering the chords, we get different colors and we get different patterns.

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