On 27/01/15 11:48 AM, Tim McNamara wrote:
The main problem for me with “x7sus4” as a chord name is its length;
when there are four chord names in a bar, every character counts in
terms of legibility. Things can get crowded fast. (This came up in
preparing a chart for the Vince Guaraldi song “Cast Your Fate To The
Wind” in which all the chords in the soloing section are suspended
dominants. Lots and lots of them, actually sounds pretty terrible on
guitar; works somewhat better on piano which was Guaraldi’s
instrument, but IMHO seriously overdone on this song).
Ah, this puts a slightly different spin on things. In a jazz piece like
this, the idea of suspension is often interpreted a little differently -
as Mark Levine explains it in the Jazz Piano Book, the notation "x7sus"
refers to playing a major triad one tone lower than the root over the
given root, e.g. G7sus would be an F triad over a G bass. The resulting
chord contains the 7th, 4th and 9th. (Whether the 5th and 3rd are
included is determined by the performer.)
So in this particular context, x7sus better reflects the composer's
intentions than x7sus4.
Brett
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