Originally Posted by: Cryptic ExcretionsBut, when making a 9th chord, you could still get away with leaving out the 7th. Granted, I didn't notice he'd left the 7th out in the original example, or else I'd have probably mentioned something to the same effect, but you can still get away with bailing on certain notes. Unless I'm mistaken with my material.
True, but commonly you should bail on the fifth, not the seventh. And then you want to limit that to root position seventh chords if any seventh chord. So, yeah, that's how we do.