• Registered: 2010-05-28
  • Posts: 2

Topic: whether the chord tablature is really conforming to a song

I am not very advanced, so this is not clear to me. I go to a song I wish to learn, for example at the moment I am looking at "If I had you"-Sinatra's version. I then transpose it, in this case I transposed it to C. The tabs give me Cm7/9, for example, but the song shows CM7/9 and as other chords in that same song use the minuscule m, I am assuming that when CM7/9 appears, it is the major. However, the tabs don't show me how to play the major and it is hard to find in my other chord books. Please comment

  • From: Almancil, Algarve, Portugal
  • Registered: 2006-09-02
  • Posts: 6,205

Re: whether the chord tablature is really conforming to a song

Hi katestrel and welcome to Chordie,

All the songs that are displayed are the work of indivduals who have worked out the chords themselves and Chordie is a search engine that finds them and displays them in a manner that can be transposed and easily printed. As such, it is not uncommon to find typos and I suspct that the CM7/9 should in fact read Cm7/9. If possible you can look at another version of the song to verify this.

Roger

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