C7#9 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is C7#9. 7#9 chord's are commonly known by guitarist's as 'The Hendrix Chord', though jazzer's prefer to call them altered chords. We've featured a few other Hendrix chords and altered jazz guitar chords in previous posts.
This guitar chord is fairly simple to play but is less well known than the regular Hendrix chord inversion. This inversion has its root on the top E string of the guitar.

7#9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, b7, #9
C7#9 uses the notes: C, E, G,Bb, D#
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: E, Bb, Eb, C

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E7#5#9 | The Hendrix Chord Variation

A little while ago we featured a small mini-series of Hendrix Guitar Chords. Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is a much less known fingering of the famous Hendrix Chord that you can throw in for some more variation.
This guitar inversion involves more of a stretch than some of the other inversions of this chord we've featured before, though even more stretching is needed to play these stretch guitar chords.

7#9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, #5, b7, #9
E7#9 uses the notes: E, G#, B#, D, F## [G]
Today's guitar chord uses the notes in this order: E, G#, B#, D, F## [G]

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C7#5b9 / Bbm7b5 / Gb9 / Dbm6

The recent Guitar Chord a Day series 12 Dominant 7th Chords, introduced 12 useful dominant 7th guitar inversions.

Today's guitar chord of the day is actually four chords in one:

• C7#5b9
• Bbm7b5
• Gb9
• Dbm6

 Dominant 7th chords are easy to modify to create other chords:

• Lower the 3rd one fret to make a minor7 chord
• Raise the b7 one fret to make a major7 chord
• Raise the root two frets to make a 9th chord

Thinking of our guitar chord as a C7#5b9 - this could be created by taking this dominant 7th chord and raising the root and the 5th by one fret to create a 7#5b9 chord.

Thinking of our guitar chord as a Bbm7b5 - this could be created by taking this dominant 7th chord and lowering the 3rd and the 5th by one fret to create a m7b5 chord.

Thinking of our guitar chord as a Gb9 - this could be created by taking this dominant 7th chord and raising the root note by two frets to create a 9th chord.

Thinking of our guitar chord as a Dbm6 - this could be created by taking this dominant 7th chord and lowering the 3rd and the 7th by one fret to create a m6 chord.

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