Ebmaj7 on E9th

Joe Blount · From: Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA

How do u make a Ebmaj7 on the E9th neck? pedals...levers

W. Van Horn · From: Houston, texas

Fret 1, a and b pedals, strings 9, 7, 6, ,5. Add string 8 or 4 for ninth, lift b pedal for #11.

W. Van Horn · From: Houston, texas

Also if you don't need the root you can use a g minor chord. Think of Eb at fret 6 a and b pedals, lift the b pedal and it's a rootless Eb maj7/ aka G minor. Lots of rootless options.

Les Cargill · From: Oklahoma City, Ok, USA

11th fret, no pedals/knees, strings 8,6,5 & 2

Charles Kurck · From: Living in Arkansas but Heaven is home

Pete Nicholls · From: Macon, Georgia, USA

Looks nice Charles, but how do I read it?
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Mike Perlowin · From: Los Angeles CA

Generally speaking, the 7th in the major 7 chord should not be the lowest note in the chord. There are many exceptions to this, but as a general rule, the 7th should be in an upper voice.

I usually make the chord by mashing the A and B pedals, with the D note (8th string lowered on my U-12, 9th string on a 10 string E9) as the root, and playing strings 5,6,7 over it.
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Rick Abbott · From: Indiana, USA

Sometimes I've found that the strings 6-4-2 sound nice as a passing maj7 chord. But 5-4-2 or 8-6-2 can be good depending on the other instruments and/or notes used by a vocalist. For Ebmaj7, go to the 11th fret. I like the wide grips, with lower, mid and higher tones together. I like the 7th on the top usually. This doesn't always sound the best, but in many chord progressions, with good blocking, this can be arpeggiated to fit really well. Works for me, but your mileage may vary.

Cool chart Charles!
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Charles Kurck · From: Living in Arkansas but Heaven is home

Pete Nicholls:

The first column is the string numbers.
The second column is the open string notes.
The first row is the chord names.
Find the Dma7 chord in the blue box.
This is the chord Mike Perlowin is playing.

Scott Duckworth · From: Etowah, TN Western Foothills of the Smokies

Nice chart Charles. Do you have a book that you sell with those in it?
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Charles Kurck · From: Living in Arkansas but Heaven is home

Scott Duckworth:

I have no book, just a number of steel guitar chord charts made with Microsoft Word.

Larry Bressington · From: Nebraska

A unison on string 4 and 8 fret 11, works great in back up!
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Stuart Legg · Posted 1 Mar 2014 12:55 pm

I memorize the E9 neck in numbers of the major scale at seven chord possitions on the neck and move that that mentally around from key to key. it is then not hard to visualize what notes related are in between the possitions
I memorize what each pedal and lever does.
It is not difficult then to visualize were even the the altered chords are (flat and sharp 5's and 9's etc.)
I only show these charts so you can visualize the thinking process. You can start of by just memorizing the up and down positions and progress from there.
It really is not that difficult just work on it a little everyday.
On E9 there is a tendency to reduce chords down to 3 notes.
This usually tends to result in more like an EbMaj7=Gm=Bb6 etc. and an Ebm7=F# etc. This thinking process however does not limit you to that.

Murray McDowall · From: Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

G'Day Joe,
An easy one is "B"+"C" pedals, 1st fret, strings 9,7,6,5. 4 and 3 can be added as they are octaves of 7 and 6.
9 is the root note, 7 is the third, 6 is the 5th and 5 is the maj7th note.

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Ron Pruter · From: Arizona, USA

Joe,
Charles' chart might be nice but it's not a standard tuning. I agree with mike P. You want to keep the root in bass and flatten that root note 1/2 a step, somewhere higher in the chord. Easiest way to play a Maj.7 - Start on the 8th string, throw in 5,4,and 3,then the magic note on the 2nd string. No pedals. You could not play the fourth or arpeggiate between 4 and 2. RP
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Charles Kurck · From: Living in Arkansas but Heaven is home

Today’s standard tuning would have been considered nonstandard in 1962.
Time changes everything.

Ian Rae · From: Redditch, England

I sometimes wonder if a low A might be more useful than a separate D string. On my old guitar it would be too much to engineer just for an experiment. On a modern one I would give Charles's tuning a try - it's not that weird, and it's more in line with a uni setup.
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Pete Burak · From: Portland, OR USA

With regard to Maj7th's, my most basic E9th position is from the intro to Color My World by Chicago.
GMaj7 to Bm.
GMaj7 = Fret-3 open, strings 8,6,5,2
Bm = Fret-3 with E's lowered, 8,6,5,2 or 8,6,5,4.

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