How To Build Advanced Chords

(compiled by Brian Baer – free to all!)

The following information defines what notes, in any given scale, are needed

to create these chords. Simply plug in chord note name to write each.

                                                     
                     Major 1-3-5                 Minor 1-b3-5

                     Seventh 1-3-5-b7            Minor Seventh 1-b3-5-b7

                     Major Seventh 1-3-5-7       Suspended Fourth 1-4-5

                     7th Sus 4th 1-4-5-b7        Minor Sixth 1-b3-5-6

                     Sixth 1-3-5-6               Ninth 1-3-5-b7-9

                     Minor Ninth 1-b3-5-b7-9     Major Ninth 1-3-5-7-9

                                    Major Sixth Added Ninth (6/9) 1-3-5-6-9

                             Seventh Augmented Ninth (7+9) 1-3-5-b7-#9

                             Seventh Minor Ninth (7-9) 1-3-5-b7-b9

                             Augmented (+) 1-3-#5

                             Seventh Augmented Fifth (7+5) 1-3-#5-b7

                             Diminished ("dim" or "o") 1-b3-b5-bb7

                             Diminished Fifth (-5) 1-3-b5

                             Seventh Diminished Fifth (7-5) 1-3-b5-b7

                             Ninth Diminished Fifth (9-5) 1-3-b5-b7-9

                             Eleventh (11) 1-3-5-b7-9-11

                             Thirteenth (13) 1-3-5-b7-9-13

(This fretboard shows examples of the relative locations of the numbered notes)  

SCALES

The following are the notes, in sequence, for each of the twelve MAJOR scales.