Lungimsam Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 Learning some chordal theory. Not getting the why and how of chord substitutions. Why do they use chord subs, and can anyone give me a simple explanation of how to do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malchik Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 Learning some chordal theory. Not getting the why and how of chord substitutions. Why do they use chord subs, and can anyone give me a simple explanation of how to do it? It just adds variety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfox14 Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 Chord subs can add a lot more flavor to an arrangement especially in jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinh Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 Substitute/extended chords are particularly useful if you're working with another guitarist who's already playing the basic chords to a song. If he/she's playing a D chord, there's only so many ways you can voice another straight D chord to avoid just doubling his/her part. Playing extended chords with a different root, differentiates your line, and adds some harmonic complexity. By example, a D6 played in the shape of a Bm7 at the 7th fret (B, F#, A, D, F#, B ) played over an open D (D, A, D, F#) sounds more interesting than just doubling the D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lungimsam Posted February 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 So, the substituted chord is nothing more than an inversion of the original chord? And because the root is different than the original chord, it has another chords name? Am I understanding this correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted February 25, 2012 Report Share Posted February 25, 2012 So, the substituted chord is nothing more than an inversion of the original chord? And because the root is different than the original chord, it has another chords name? Am I understanding this correctly? Yup. Exactly. The idea is that a chord does not always HAVE to have the root as it's lowest note, or most prominent note. So, you could either choose to rename the chord as a different chord considering it's new 'root', or choose to consider the chord an 'inversion'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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