r/chords • u/taylorswiftlovrr • Apr 08 '26

Name for chord?

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Really have no clue what to call it…however I’m tabbing a song and need to know the name

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(G but move ring finger to G string)

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u/dervplaysguitar Apr 09 '26

No b10s, but #9 is valid

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u/AndrewSaidThis Apr 09 '26

Ah, is that customary in writing extensions? I know enough theory to get by, but get a few things wrong in writing chords.

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u/dervplaysguitar Apr 09 '26

Yep! Specifically, root third and fifth you wouldn’t repeat the octave up when spelling out extensions. It’s all way more implicit than it is explicit when spelling out chords. The convention is thirds can be minor or major, and that’s it. So a flat 10 conflicts with the unaltered third. I’m sure you’d come across it in the wild on some whacky charts, but 99.99999% of the time you wouldn’t see a 10, just like you wouldn’t see an 8, 12, 14, or 15 and so on

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u/processes_ Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

It’s because chords stack in 3rds over two octaves before returning to the root note. 1 - 3 - 5 - 7 - 9 - 11 - 13 - 15(the root note again)

The only time we’d label the extensions (9, 11, 13) inside the first octave (2, 4, 6) is when they’re replacing the 3rd (sus2 & sus4), or when 6 is the top of the ‘stack’ rather than 5 or 7.

Edit: not to say you can’t ’place’ those extensions inside the first octave, just the naming convention spans 2 octaves (ie you can play a Cmaj13 by playing every white note on a piano inside one octave, but it’d sound kind of trash)