{"id":2581,"date":"2009-07-28T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2019-08-09T10:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T10:10:33","slug":"guitar-chord-of-the-month-eadd9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/guitar-chord-of-the-month-eadd9\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Chord of the Month &#8211; Eadd9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Eadd9 &#8221; Chord works to enrich a softly played E Major, with a surprising easy-on-the-ear cluster dischord of three notes in a row (E, F# and G#).<br \/>\nThis first fingering is fairly well-known &#8211; and is a good start because it is easy to see how the basic E shape is modified to lift the root note to a 2nd.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"e2-i\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/e2-i.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2593 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/e2-i.jpg\" alt=\"e2-i\" width=\"500\" height=\"78\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, for intermediate players the stretch is painful after only a short time.<br \/>\nThis alternative is harder to understand (for those of us who don&#8217;t recognise notes so easily at the dusty end of the fretboard) but easier to play, and close to a few other &#8220;high-=position&#8221; chords which I&#8217;ll introduce later.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"e2-ii\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/e2-ii.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"attachment wp-att-2596 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/e2-ii.jpg\" alt=\"e2-ii\" width=\"500\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Eadd9 &#8221; Chord works to enrich a softly played E Major, with a surprising easy-on-the-ear cluster dischord of three notes in a row (E, F# and G#). 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