I need help with a few Chords! Can anyone help me?

[knickers]

Hi Everyone...

Im trying to learn "Whether you fall" by Tracy Bonham , and i tried a few chord finders online, and none of them sound right!

Basically i need to know these . Or can someone guide me where i can find them online?

Ab7 (#11)  

Abmaj7

Cm9/Bb


Thanks!

Nicole


I also have the sheet music , if it helps!

[danielekstrom]

I'm not going to feed you the answers, but I can lead you in the right direction. Also, there are so many ways to voice those chords. What exactly are you have trouble with? I'm assuming it's the exended notes. I'll give you some hints.

Ab7#11 - The #11 is always a tritone (augmented 4th/diminish 5th) away from the root note.

Abmaj7 - The major 7th is a half step before the octave (for the dominant 7th chord above, it is a whole step before the octave (a minor 7th)).

C-9/Bb Well, the 9th - Go to the octave and then go up a 2nd. The /Bb means that the bass note should be a Bb (of course that can also be up to you).

When in doubt, count scale degrees.

[pianoplunker]

C-9/Bb Well, the 9th - Go to the octave and then go up a 2nd. The /Bb means that the bass note should be a Bb (of course that can also be up to you).

When in doubt, count scale degrees.

 In a band, the Bass will usually play the Bb . The rest of the band would  play some arrangement of C-9 voices. If you are playing solo piano, your left hand would play the Bb and your right hand plays some arranegment of C-9 voices. All of this requires a knowledge of theory and could generate a whole new thread of discussion. This one chord could be played and voiced many different ways.  I would suggest checking out  Theory.  That way you can learn how things are constructed. How the melody harmonizes with the bass to create C-9/Bb

[knickers]

Thanks Everyone, I guess i'm just having trouble because its not in a guitar tab format, I only play the guitar & wanted to see if i could do this cover of a song real fast on the Piano, but it seems like it may be too advanced for me.

Here below is the song, if you want to look at it,


https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.zmxmusic.com/items/3673/Whether%20You%20Fall-Piano-Vocal.pdf


Thanks!

[ajspiano]

Thanks Everyone, I guess i'm just having trouble because its not in a guitar tab format

More so, on a guitar, once you learn basic bar chord shapes playing in different keys just means moving up or down a few frets and doing a similar thing to what you did in another key..  such as that if you learn that Abmaj7 shape, you probably also just learnt major 7th chords in 11 other spots at the least.

This doesn't hold true on a piano. There are similar keys, but ultimately every key has different physical configurations that we just have to get used to...  There are also a great deal more possibilities for how to arrange the notes. Guitars give you a nice distribution of sound that spans a couple of octaves just by using each successive string. On a piano you need to know/learn how to do that and which ways sound good..

Its certainly not impossible to learn those chords straight away, but normally there'd be a lot more steps before hand.. just like when you first picked up guitar you probably learnt straight open chords like G, D, E, A etc..