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Mar 5, 2021 at 22:19 comment added OwenM Great answer, I was putting one together but was thinking while doing so it would really be better from a harmony instrument player who uses this sort of thing practically rather than theoretically! Great insights into real world useage.
Mar 5, 2021 at 20:01 comment added jdjazz I played the first chord (E A D# G#) and added an extra E in the bass. Then I tried it again with an A in the bass, then F#, C#, B, etc. The ordering was roughly based on my prior knowledge and intuitions/suspicions about which roots may work. Ultimately, though, you can just try all 12 keys. When testing a given root, I used a mixture of these techniques: (1) Pattern recognition (is this a chord I already know? Many were, thanks to background knowledge/prior experience), (2) Do I like how this sounds? (3) If I wrote down a chord symbol, would it make sense? Does it have practical application?
Mar 5, 2021 at 19:01 vote accept grugintel
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Mar 5, 2021 at 18:59 comment added grugintel Thank you for your response. I must admit that I can't quite grasp all of what you explain, but I do understand certain concepts. Could you please elaborate on how it is that you went about determining over which chords those chords I derived from the scale can be used? If not elaboration then identification of the concepts involved, so I could research them, would suffice.
Mar 5, 2021 at 2:21 history answered jdjazz CC BY-SA 4.0