maximumpower

bayoubill

sharke
This is my favorite chord, I use it way too much: 
 
6 - 5th fret - A (root)
5 - 7th fret - E
4 - 9th fret - B
3 - 8th fret - D#
2 - 5th fret - E
1 - X
 
It works equally well with the lydian or overtone scale. I love anything with a 9th and #11th in it. 
 

 

so very nice

Agreed!
 
Flying In A Blue Dream[ish] :-)

Joe Satriani?
(I have that CD) :))

Hi,
 
I'm sure we can find that in Ozric Tentacles!

It's easier to play in the 5th position and higher. I can play it in the 1st position on my Telecaster but have difficultly on my high action steel string acoustic.

Hi ,
Ok ,shame on me with the Ab I must have typed too fast or my thinking have been too slow.
There is a thing though that is beyond my understanding: I picture A13 as AC#EGBDF# ,then I see and somewhat hear Eb as a flat fifth. But I must be missing something.It won't change the way things are going but if I could have an insight I would be gratefull.

Playing this chord on a full moon is not recommanded,it could pull you in a land where you think notes and count beats instead of playing music.
All the best.
Olivier

sharke
That's an Adom13. 

I really gotta concur with sharke's interpretation. It is of course dependent on the key/context but if this chord was just dropped on my balls as is... definitely A dominant 13.
 
It is of course missing two notes for it's six string barre chord formation (fret 7 on the 5th string, fret 5 on the high E string) but played as written it totally implies those notes anyway.*
 
Then again I am an "Occam's Razor/path of least resistance" type of dude when "solving" chord names.
 
More data would be needed to sway my opinion away from Adom13 (like a chord progression, bass line, melody, etc).
 
I've always hated chord naming conventions though. Totally silly and unnecessarily confusing.
 
* You should totally add those notes BTW. Not hard. You just form an Adom7 barre chord (six string formation) and plop your pinky down on the 7th fret of the B (2nd) string.

This is exactly why I stick to power chords like A5 or E5. 

craigb
This is exactly why I stick to power chords like A5 or E5. 

In my pea brain I actually go even more simplistic than that. I get my root then just stack sh*t on top of it based on the scale/position I'm spazzing out on. Much more liberating.
 
It can all be "solved" with the bizzarro naming/numbering system but in the heat of the moment I ain't giving a flying fart about being smart. I'm just trying to jam out. lulz
 
Doing that way let's me know ALL the possible "correct" chords and then totally f*ck them over on a whim (dissonance) without putting too much thought into it.
 
There is a drawback though. Once I try soloing over that nonsense it gets way more difficult to figure out WTF mode I should be playing over the mess I've made.
 
But that's half the fun I guess.
 
;-)

Ok,
I must give an explanation for the why I reacted to that post.
We have here a girl called Jeanne Added who is driving a career as a songwriter and performer ,she is quite good and she sings in english in a mean to get in touch with the american dream market you represent for us.
She has a song which is named :"Look at Them" and the opening notes are directly taken from "Misty". So I went to the dictionnary and discovered that "Misty" is the mood a french guy could feel in thoose times. So I went to my old"Real Book" and wandered a bit around this marvellous tune.
So Eb13 and so on you have a lot of them on the score.
That's why when I saw thoose chord questions it ..talked to me.
Cheers.
Olivier.