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Brian always says he moves from a 6th chord to a 9th by baring strings 1,2,3 (for the 5th string root chord 6th) ……then sliding down two frets for the 9th of that chord. In this lesson, he goes from D6 to D9 (measure 6) by sliding the first three strings from fret 7 to fret 5. My question: I get the D9 shape on fret 5 from another lesson. But, why isn’t that shape on fret 7 called an E9 instead of a D6? In other words couldn’t he just as easily say “this slide is from the V to the IV chord?
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Barring the top three strings at the 7th fret gives (D F# B). It’s rather hard to find an E chord in there. But it’s easy to find a D6: D F# (A) B = D6.
Sliding that shape down to the fifth fret produces (C E A), which is (D) (F#) A C E = D9. Yes, quite a few notes are implied, but in the context, it works. In another context that might be interpreted as a first inversion Am chord.
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Good answer Jean-Michel G.
If I could add: Many three or four note chords on the guitar are just fragments of a fully outlined chord. These can be a hint at a D9 or a part of an Am, it really depends on the key and style of the music being played at the time whether the listener hears it as a bluesy D6 to D9 lonesome train whistle effect over the 1 chord of a blues in D or in a rock tune in Am that same triad sounds like and functions as an Am chord. Even without a backing band listeners can track chord changes and hear these overlaid chordal effects or the straight next chord in a sequence.
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