Re: 7b5, or 7#11?

"David Webber" <dave@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> So why, when add9 existed already?    The last three D's  *are* a 9th 
> above the root!

I think the philosphy is that:
Sus 4 means replace the 3 with 4 (or move the 3 to 4 etc.)
So "add 4" should mean that the 4 being added should be adjacent to the 3
it 
would have been replacing.

So sus 2 and "add 2" would of course mean the same thing.

I think the confusion is that 9ths are probabaly (or at least have been) 
more common historically than 11ths, and triad forms of the past were more

likely to use sus4 of all of the sus/add family, that 2nds were "unknown" 
and 11ths were on 7th forms and thus distinct.

Personally, I think
C E G D should be add 2  period. "9" should be reserved strictly for those

chords that also include the 7th (or the 6th in the case of a 6/9)

But I'm not going to bother trying to change the evolutionary process 
(except in miniscule increments :-)

Steve