When Jimmy Day was at my hose in Germany, He showed me a new chord he was using at that time. The standard pedal for whole tone raises on the C6th, Commonly called the Hank Thompson pedal because it was created by Bob White, was used in this new change.
Instead of a whole tone raise on the middle A note, he raised it a half tone to b7th/Bb. I fooled with it for awhile on my Fender 1000 but the complaints from the singers that it pulled them off key or simply threw them a curve they couldn't handle made me change it back. Also, it limited what I was already familiar with, the whole tone rasise to a M7/B.
Later on, in a book about C6th by Herbie Wallace, I found the chord again in a different manner. He used the other Bob White creation, raising the high third E-F
and lowering the low third E-Eb. Then he lowered the middle C, root to a M7th/B. This is one of the augmented chords from Carl Dixon's thread a while back.
Only, there is a gap in the high major third
where the split is a whole tone step. The chord runs low to high: F A C Eb G A B. The aug chord is Eb G B with the split being the A between them, a whole tone above and a whole tone below the G B, M3rd.
My question is, since it fits very nicely into the chord structure; is there such a thing as a split augmented ?? I've never heard of one but lacking a better definition of this chord, that is what I would call it.
Right or Wrong ?? Regards, Paul<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Paul Graupp on 18 August 2001 at 09:41 AM.]</p></FONT>
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Paul,
the way I see the F-A-C-Eb-G-(A)-B is: F7/9/#11. You could also build it on the C minor: Cm6/#7/11. It would depend on the bass note. I don´t think that starting from an augmented chord (Ebaug/Gaug/Baug) makes much sense. I have never heard of an altered augmented chord. They are just three-note chords with nothing "added" to them. But I´m just guessing, and not very intelligently, probably.
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the way I see the F-A-C-Eb-G-(A)-B is: F7/9/#11. You could also build it on the C minor: Cm6/#7/11. It would depend on the bass note. I don´t think that starting from an augmented chord (Ebaug/Gaug/Baug) makes much sense. I have never heard of an altered augmented chord. They are just three-note chords with nothing "added" to them. But I´m just guessing, and not very intelligently, probably.
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