#Having some troubles with extensions, can anyone help?

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undone nymph
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From learning major scale and minor scale

I kept looking at chords at how many notes are in between… going 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2

For example

F# major: F# + A# + C#

There is 3 between F# + A# and 2 between A# + C#

so 3, 2 - then to continue the above add another 3 in-between we hit F

Now we have a F#maj 7

Another 2 in-between and we reach G# for e a full F# major 9

Then another 3 in-between to C…. wait that isn’t right….

I google and it’s B to make the F#maj 11…

So my calculations of going 3,2,3,2,3,2,3,2 continuously stopped here

Then if I wanted to go further to F#maj 13th, we’re actually going to have the 3 in-between which works in my calculation again but we remove the B so it’s only F# + A# + C# + F + G# + D# —— but why no B?

Does anyone have advice here and can see my warped line of thinking and how to correct it?

Just when I thought I was getting the hang of things… 😛

undone nymph
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ive come to realise from some practice since my post, that my theory only really changes slightly towards the end... for the major scale

the minor scale it kind of still works

empty aspen
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take a gander at some of these exercises

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i think ud benefit from the chord/scale construction exercises!

undone nymph
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# undone nymph From learning major scale and minor scale I kept looking at chords at how many ...

You're actually kind of on to something with this. More accurately, it's major and minor thirds. A major third is 4 half steps (i.e. from C to E) and a minor is 3 half steps (i.e. from E to G). Chords are built out of these thirds, so rather than thinking of how many notes are in-between, you can think of the order of thirds.

For example, a seventh chord is built like a normal major chord (major third + minor third) but adds another minor third to reach the B flat.

The F#maj 11 that you're thinking of is built out of a major third, minor third, major third, minor third, major third (if you want to think of it as an arpeggio)

The B is sharp to become a C, by the way. The way you're thinking about it isn't "incorrect" per se, you're just bruteforcing the pattern