Steely Dan were musical innovators, which is reflected in their music, but also in the fact that they made up their very own chord.

We continue our series in open tunings with another ‘C’ tuning, but this is different to open Csus2 because the strings are tuned to a major chord, not a suspended sound – and that changes ...

However, the examples here focus on using dissonance within a single chord and how sometimes the ... piles on the suspense in ...