Re: sus7 chords in \chordmode

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Elaine,

> Precisely my point: we DON'T have a dominant chord here.  The starting 
> assumption is wrong.

To every player I’ve ever played with — and that’s a lot, in both jazz and 
musical theatre bands — the chord <c f g bf> is a dominant 7th with alteration.

> Yet, when this symbol is "sus", you want to say that the sus modifies what 
> comes after it. Why the discrepancy?

There is no discrepancy at all: “Amin” implies “a triad, built on A, in the 
minor mode”; “Asus4” implies “a triad, built on A, with a suspended 4th”; 
“A7sus4” implies “a dominant seventh chord, built on A, with a suspended 4th” — 
completely consistent. In the latter two cases, “sus” modifies the chord that 
comes before it (i.e., the major or minor triad, or dominant 7), just like the 
“min” modifies the chord that comes before it in the first case.

Cheers,
Kieren.

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