Jazz standards on E9th

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[Basil Henriques]

OK Paul, firstly the copedent is of my own development, to incorporate most of the popular Hawaiian tuning without having a seven or eight necked guitar.
The Emmons Copedent for my country/Irish playing is the Emmons/Myrick E9 added 6th. BUT I achieve the changes totally "rectum about fizzog".. ..In raise my B's with my RKR - flatten my E's with pedal "C" - Raise my G#'s with pedal "B" ..- LKL is my E's to F change, and so on. Totally unorthodox. When I leaned to play I had absolutely no reference point to work from, only what I could hear and guestimate. Not books Tapes or whatever, just the "Lugs".. been using them ever since..

Oh yes I almost forgot.. The chord name is probably incorrect, BUT what else could you call a chord that has, from the lowest note b9, b5, 7th, 3rd, aug 5th and the root on top ?

OK, like, thumb on fret 6 on strings 5+6... 1st finger fret 5, string 4,... 2nd finger fret 6 string 3... 3rd finger fret 6 string 2.. and 1st finger fret 5 string 1.(1st finger bars strings 1234, but it's modified by 'tother digits..

its an A augmented seventh with a flat fifth and flat ninth. (Maybe.. The easier name would be Eb9b5 BUT that name would be alien to the key pat's using it in. (C) the prior chord is C and the following one of Dm7 so the tonal centre is leading to Dm7, a variance of A dominant 7th is logical.
The Bass is playing an A note and I am playing a Bbm6MA7 with the major 7 as the top note..

How can you have an augmented 7th when the 5 is flat?

Well, the augmented chord works against a whole tone scale or vice versa, so logically any note of the whole tone scale an be a modifier.. perhaps..

[Basil Henriques]

The big problem when I developed that copedent (8string fender one) was that the Fender 400 and 1000 guitars could only pull two strings at a time per pedal and the raises and lowers were just once, you couldn't raise the first to F#, and on another pedal the same string to F... it was beyond what the guitar mechanism could do..BUT what It DID do was very accurate, albeit rather strenuous when it came to the lowers. Use a light spring and make the lowers easier and the speed of the return to pitch was affected adversely, use a lighter gauge string to increase the range of the pulls and decrease the pedal travel, and you had return to pitch problems after a raise (Hysteresis presumably)..

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