Whoah, that changes everything!
First of all, particularly in jazz with 7th chords and extended
chords, we need the bass note to know what the function of the chord
is. Without knowing the style of the excerpt you supplied, in a jazz
or "Tin Pan Alley" context missing the bass notes, I would say that
progression in the key of Eb was most likely
Cm7 F9 F7 (then probably going to either Fm7 or Bb7 after that) I
would further surmise that the first chord is on a relatively
accented part of the phrase, say beat 1 of a measure, while the other
two chords come on beat 3 and 4, and so are functionally the same chord.
The bass note makes all the difference. I rather suspect that Bb is
not the bass note of the first chord, nor A the bass note of the
second chord. This is not the "C minor chord with the 6th in the
bass" that Monk had mentioned.
Good thing Guy asked for a context!
Christopher
On Fri Oct 2, at FridayOct 2 10:26 PM, timothy price wrote:
On Oct 2, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Guy Hayden wrote:
You have ACEbG. Half diminished in sound but
what came before it and what comes after it?
Correction,
Playing in the key of Eb:
BbCEbG: ACEbG; ACEbF; etc.
timothy price
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