| Symbol | Description | Symbol | Description | Symbol | Description | |||||
| C | C major | Cm | C minor | Cdim | C diminished (flattened fifth) | |||||
| C7 | C (domiant) seventh | Cm7 | C minor seventh | Caug | C augmented (raised fifth) | |||||
| CM7 | C major seventh | CmM7 | C minor with a major seventh | Cdim7 | Diminshed seventh with a C root | |||||
| C6 | C sixth | Cm6 | C minor sixth | Cm7b5 | C minor seventh with a flattened fifth Also known as C half-dimished |
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| C9 | C (dominant) seventh plus a ninth | C7b9 | C (dominant) seventh plus a flattened ninth | C7#9 | C (dominant) seventh plus a raised ninth | |||||
| Csus9 | C major with an added 9th | Csus9-8 | As Csus9 but 9th resolves to 8ve | Csus2 | As Csus9 but with the ninth voiced 'closed' within the octave | |||||
| Csus4 | C with a suspended 4th | Csus4-3 | As Csus4 but resolves to standard major chord | C/x | C over bass note 'x' | |||||
| C(b5) | C with a flattened 5th (bracketted to avoid confusion i.e. Ab(b5)) | C(#4) | As C(b5) but in a different harmonic context | C13 | C (dominant) seventh with an added 13th (no 9th or 11th) | |||||
Chords featuring extensions above the dominant seventh, namely the 9th, 11th and 13th can often be voiced in several ways, due to the number of notes (degrees of the scale) these chords can feature. Each can appear in several guises, and are often more efficiently expressed, as chord symbols, in alternate ways (especially for non-jazz players). See this document for clarification (or confusion). A bracketted number next to a chord (other than a (b5) or (#5) indicates a momentary, superficial or decorative suspension or extension that is relatively unimportant to the underlying progression. A bracketted chord at the beginning of a line indicates that this chord is carried over from the previous line. |
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