The more i know the less i know?

[Scottulus]

Yes and no - it’s actually it’s own thing. lol It’s a minor chord with a maj 7th.

[bradejensen]

i will say that there is no way i could learn chords on the guitar having heard a powerful analog polysynth. i would probably fall asleep, maybe i am losing interest in guitar.

[Drew]

@bradejensen

thats what i am trying to get at, the sound of the minmaj7 is both a minor and augmented at the end of the day, even in context, so to only spell out the interval is leaving out the true point of that chord the augmented higher triad, its not major. the entire aural pronunciation of the chord is minor/augmented.

By that do you mean literally a minor chord with a major 7th, like Em with a D# in addition to the E-G-B? Or the fact that the C major 7th chord can technically be seen as having an E minor triad inside it?

If the latter, I’d say that in context it shouldn’t sound minor at all, but sort of dreamy and almost suspended, but very major-y. If the former, I mean, that’s going to be a very dissonant sounding chord anyway, so having it work musically is really going to depend on how you resolve it… A minor chord with a major 7th isn’t really a voicing I ever find myself using though, probably because it IS such a dissonant sound.