What is this complex chord?

There is nothing dissonant about any of the music in that section. Funny how one hears it that way but to me it sounds very inside and rather sweet. You would have a real problem with some seriously dissonant Jazz chords. (Dominant b9 #5,#11, Minor Major 7 #11 etc..)


Matt later when I get a chance I will transcribe the chords for you.

Title changed! Something in the lower notes sounded kind of dissonant to me, but I guess not!

That would be great to see it transcribed, jeff. Thanks! Just the first chord is fine, I just want to know what all the notes are that make it up from a music theory perspective but I don't care about the actual notes as such. There are one or two notes in there that give it this kind of metallic feeling to me which I love.

Ben, Dm sounds about right to me for the fundamental components, but what are the other ones in there!?!?!

I know this piece uses up to 9 voices simultaneously. I don't know if all 9 are being used in this section though. I have a recording of a vocal performance of this song which is AMAZING but I don't think I can really put it up publicly as it's not mine. The notes that I really want are even more extreme in this vocal version I have. Maybe I can put up a snippet of if in a private link if you want to hear this section performed vocally.

Ah sorry, Ben. I miss-read your previous post. I thought you were referring to the notes that came after. My bad! I've played around with this and I think you might be right. D, G, F sound like the basis for it which would be a Dmbb5 I think? And then I think there is a C in there too which would make it a Dm7bb5, yes?

The vocal performance one I am listening too sounds slightly different as I think it has an F for the root note too I think which would make it a F/Dm7bb5? I think it might be the double flat 5 and the slash chord combined which is giving the particular tension feel that I am looking for!

I kind of just put it in the too hard basket and didn't try to work it out myself on a piano... Turns out it doesn't look too hard after all! Thanks!

Haha, I did research to learn that double flat 5th terminology ;) Simply a 5th, but flat, twice, which makes it a 4th, but with no 5th being played.

So I actually just got sent the music score. Turns out we were both wrong. It is made up of 9 parts officially (at least in the vocal version, not this Cello version). We have:

Solo:           F5
Tenor:         F5
Lead:          Eb5
                   Bb4

Baritone:    Bb3
                   G3
Bass:          Eb3
                   Bb2
Bass Extra: Eb2

This is of course for the vocal version. I think the PianoGuys version doesn't have those extra low bass notes in it though. Oh and the Solo is playing the same parts as the Tenor, though he is singing some different words and there are a few bits sung differently in the vocal version.

Of course I am looking at a different score so it's entirely possible that these are not the notes used on that video! But I did play them on my iPhone piano thing and it did seem to fit.

Just skimming through the sheet music and some of the bass notes go down to a C2!!! What insane Bass singer does that?!?!

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Just skimming through the sheet music and some of the bass notes go down to a C2!!! What insane Bass singer does that?!?!

 
I can get to B2 with some power and quite a lot of omph, if that is what you can call it!!  Ok not as nice as the vocalist in the link which I am listening to but I still can hit that not, I can also hit f5 as well!! Ha Lol, sorry I'm letting my ego out.
 
The problem here matt, is this sounds totally different to the cello piece you linked.  By the looks of things the cello is peice is in a different key but again I might be wrong and I am looking forward to Jeffs opinion on this.
 
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Haha, I did research to learn that double flat 5th terminology ;) Simply a 5th, but flat, twice, which makes it a 4th, but with no 5th being played.

So I actually just got sent the music score. Turns out we were both wrong. It is made up of 9 parts officially (at least in the vocal version, not this Cello version). We have:

Solo:           F5
Tenor:         F5
Lead:          Eb5
                   Bb4

Baritone:    Bb3
                 G3
Bass:          Eb3
                 Bb2
Bass Extra: Eb2

This is of course for the vocal version. I think the PianoGuys version doesn't have those extra low bass notes in it though. Oh and the Solo is playing the same parts as the Tenor, though he is singing some different words and there are a few bits sung differently in the vocal version.

Of course I am looking at a different score so it's entirely possible that these are not the notes used on that video! But I did play them on my iPhone piano thing and it did seem to fit.

Just skimming through the sheet music and some of the bass notes go down to a C2!!! What insane Bass singer does that?!?!

So your chord is something like an Eb9 with no 7th

matt,
I love this website:

www.gootar.com

click on the "perfect pitch" icon.  you get something like 30 seconds of free use, but you can always refresh the browser and get another 30.

you can enter any notes you want and it will tell you what chords you have and any alternate names.

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matt,
I love this website:

www.gootar.com

click on the "perfect pitch" icon.  you get something like 30 seconds of free use, but you can always refresh the browser and get another 30.

you can enter any notes you want and it will tell you what chords you have and any alternate names.

Years ago I wrote a program for the Amiga computer called "Fretknot" which was a guitar fretboard chord/scale utility. You could select notes on the fretboard and it would tell you every possible chord that those notes matched perfectly, as well as all possible chords those notes were part of, and all possible chords which were part of those notes. Then it would tell you which scales were associated with those notes as well. It was great for chord substitution and modulation ideas, and would even give you hundreds of "next chord" suggestions if you gave it a chord you were stuck on while writing a song. It made the coverdisks of a couple of Amiga magazines at the time and I thought it was the bees knees, but of course then the PC explosion happened and there were a ton of similar programs out for Windows within no time. I think you can probably get a ton which run on your phone these days. 

Our favorite was "Yes Sir, That's My Baby." Really catchy tune, easy to learn, lends well to barbershop harmonies and it has a killer modulation into the last verse.