Simple chord pad

[peter017]

Hello Guys,

there is one think I would love to get a grasp of. Its this beautiful sounding pad.

I would like to have notes for this.

I think this will be very simple request for some musicians out there .

1. is F# min
2.?
3.?

thank you

at around 1:00

[BertKoor]

I'd say the sequence is derived from a simple

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| D    | E    | F#   | %     |

where in the F# chord the usual C# is replaced with D#.
I think you'd call that F#sus6, but if you know the notes are D#, F# and A# you can play it and that's sufficient.

[peter017]

Thank you very much. You ve solved a riddle for me .

[jancivil]

No, there is no sus 6. A sixth in addition to the fifth tends to be called 'Add6' or just a 6 after the chord's letter name. Instead of a fifth, no. The only question for a harmony with a seeming 6th in addition to the 5th is, say D# F# G# A#, with F# in the bass is it F#6 or D#m in first inversion. Which does indicate your intent if you need that. There is music where it's clearly a major triad with a 6th added, and music that has to pretty much be the minor 7th*.

Anyway you cut it, D# F# A# is the simple triad D# minor.

* I might add that classical music theory people call the first inversion 'the 6 chord' because that's the figure used in the 'figured bass'.

[someone called simon]

It's not quite that simple. Firstly there's the bass note (separate synth sound) which is consistent F# throughout,

The chords of the pad over that sound initially like:

D# minor (D#, F#, A#)
D major (D, F#, A)
E major (E, G#, B)
These are the some chords as BertKoor wrote really. D#m and F#6 have the same notes. But it sounds like that chord is the first in the sequence to me, not the D that he had. That's not really important,

But on closer listen there is a lower bass note in each of these chords, which seems to take longer to sound and seems quieter. Which changes it to:

B major 7 (B, D#, F#, A#)
B minor 7 (B, D, F#, A)
C# minor 7 (C#, E, G#, B)

Note, these new chords have the same top 3 notes as the 'first listen' ones, but building them from a lower note means they are actually different chords. If you wanted to factor in the low F# played by the bass synth you'd add that to the chord name B maj7/F#, B min7/F#, C#min7/F#.

[jancivil]

D#m and F#6 have the same notes.

As a factual matter, they do not. D#m is D# F# A#. F#6 has a C#, or it's D# minor. D#m7 and F#6 have the same notes.