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 clau
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Hi all,

I found a tab Dream Theater - Through Her Eyes and it uses (besides the more common chords) the Em9 and C9 chords, which I don't know... Can anybody help me? Is this the right forum to ask?

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(@vic-lewis-vl)
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Hi Clau, and welcome to Guitarnoise.....

For a minor9th you'd need the 1st, b3, 5 7 and 9 of the scale, so for Emin9 you'd need E,G,B,D and F#....so you could play it like this....

E A D G B E
0 2 2 0 3 2
E B E G D F#

For the C9, you'd need the 1, 3, 5, b7 and 9 of the scale....C, E, G, A# and D.... the easiest way I can think of is like this...

E A D G B E
3 5 5 5 5 6
G D G C E A#

(You could lose the bottom E string on this one, you've already got the G note on the 4th string)

Hope this helps....

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A good place to look is http://chordfind.com/ .

Vic also has a small typo - the Em chord is 1, b3, 5, b7.

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(@vic-lewis-vl)
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Greybeard's quite right....

it should read.....

For an Em9, you need the 1 b3 5 b7 9 of the scale, ie E, G, B, D, F#....

E A D G B E
0 2 2 0 3 2
E B E G D F#

Vic

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(@noteboat)
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It's pretty common to leave the fifth out of 9th chords... so your 'essential' notes would be E-G-D-F# for Em9 and C-E-Bb-D for C9.

So your easiest fingerings would probably be:

0
3
0
4
x
0

for Em9, and

x
3
3
2
3
x

for C9

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(@garytalley)
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This tab may be accurate, but one thing you have to watch out for on tab sites is that they often say C9 when they mean Cadd9, which would not have the b7 in it.

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(@ignar-hillstrom)
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If barre-chords are no biggy to you playing them like that is quite easy as well:

C9 [8 10 8 9 8 10] (contains all notes)
Em9 [x 7 5 7 7 x] (no 5)

Nice and close together, so changing between them is pretty easy.


   
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 cnev
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Arj,

That C9 doesn't look all that easy although I don't have a guitar in front of me at the moment.

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Trust me, it isn't hard. It's just a regular C-barre ar rge 8th fret, but the pinky moves from the 10th fret 5th string to the 10th fret 1st string. You don't have to move anything else, and it isn't a hard stretch by any means. In fact, I would say it is easier then the Em9 I gave, that one can be tricky the first few times.


   
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