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Hi, I'm Mike Lais, and on behalf of Expert Village, this is "Tensions on Piano". The
Major 13, this is the 6th of the scale, but we like to call it the 13th because when you're
dealing with tensions you deal with the second octave, numerically, so you have 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8 for the first, and then 9 through 12 for the remaining. So we're going to check
it out. We're going to do a "C" Major 13, which is going to be 1, 3, 5, and the 13,
like I said, is the 6. So, right there, a Major 6. If we wanted to play a Minor, or
if we played a flat 13, it would be a flatted 6th, which would be just like that. Not very
good in root position, but the root position, Major 13, it sounds kind of nice. We've got
1, 3, 5, 13. If you wanted to play that, you can play that anywhere you want, it's the
same voicing. If we were to play an "E" chord, we would go a 1, 3, 5, 6, right? Just like
that. It's the same thing, but since we're doing everything in "C", we'll just keep it
there. We want to go 1, 3, 5, 6, or 13, and that is your Major 13 root position.