Originally Posted by DrDan
Originally Posted by Matt Finley
And Dan, I assume the chords give originally were from some Internet source pretending to give accurate chord changes. There are far too many of those out there.
Lets assume these chords were are correct (or someone thought they were). And lets assume Key of Eb (as in the chart).
That gives us:
Cm - CmMaj7/B - Cm7/Bb - Cm6/A <-- Notice this is actually a Cm69 - nice!

The bass notes of A and B are not in the Key of Eb! They would be Ab and Bb. I can only imagine how those bass notes would clash with the scale. But who knows what some jazz bass guy may comeup with. crazy

The bass notes would not clash with the chords as they are in the chords, thus it would have nothing to do with the scale, i.e. CmMaj7 = C-Eb-G-B and Cm7 = C-Eb-G-Bb . That is like saying G# in an E chord clashes with the key of C, think of the song 5 foot 2. Or am I reading you wrong? Note that bass line, B-Bb-A, can be a typical half-step bass line.

Also Cm6/A = C-Eb-G-A so how do you get a Cm69 (C-Eb-A-D) out of it?

Last edited by MarioD; 02/06/24 04:07 PM.
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