How about a #9th chord? Maybe a #7th? In many cases this is done to circumvent copyright infringements. We had an arranger who had a sixteen piece dance band that played all the big ballrooms here in Chicago land. He would do six or seven arrangements for our little seven piece dance band throughout a year. He was a neighbor of mine and I landscaped his home. I guess that is why he would do that when he had time and would not charge us too much. Nice guy. He told us that arrangers and others would do these crazy ways of writing chords because of that reason but I suppose there are others. By the way, does any one know what in essence these chords are, and how they would normally be notated? Sharp the ninth and/or sharp the seventh and see how your keyboard reads them. How about maybe flatting the fifth? I run across these more often than you would think in music written in a jazz form. Nothing earthshaking to learn but fun to know. I, myself have no problem reading or playing them because I suppose my mind automatically sees them in their more common form over the years. How about sharp the fourth? I mostly play in fingered mode rather than piano mode. Therefore sometimes you have to figure out different fingering to use to make some of the jazz chords or rootless ones come out and sound like they should. So use your ears rather than your eyeballs because what you see in the window don�t always lineup with your thinking mechanism. I never let my eyeballs get into a fight with my ears. I�m the boss and by George they better do what I tell them. Just like Ruthie and me, I think.

Grandpa Doug