Was getting this ready for a wedding prelude this weekend. Its not often that I run across a chord and scratch my head trying to decide what it actually is.
Looking at the second chord with the Eb root…
Thoughts anyone?
Looks like an E-flat diminished icky with an add 9.
In other words, I’m clueless 
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Too many notes.
Is that like a (ManyNotes)ADD 2?
If you need more than 10 fingers to play it, then it’s an alien chord.
Otherwise it should be fine - just play it.
S
Wait a minute!! Do guys say icky??? Looks like a D sharp augmented 9th capo’d up to the 27th fret
… as Jonathan asks himself, why did I bother asking these guys again…??
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Perhaps a vi 9/11…
D=9
B flat= flat 7
F=11
C= root
B flat = flat 7
E flat = flat 3
You mean a flatted minor 6? Possible… Eb, Gb (F# enharmonic), and Bb seem like you could go that direction. The D♮ in the top voice is kind of an irregular 7th then… and it doesn’t really fit into any chord label I can think of.
I also looked at calling the the D♮, F#, and Bb in the top 3 voices a D+ chord, then thinking of the C♮ in the bottom as a 7th… So D7+5…but the Eb in the left hand throws a bit of a wrench in that idea. Honestly, by the time you put D7+5/Eb in a symbol, you probably defeated the purpose of attempting to name it. I think its a miracle that Puccini got it to function harmonically.
Hmmm. That Gmajor to Eb-ish thing re-occours through the entire aria. Its a pretty song. Don’t get asked to play this stuff at weddings much! It’ll be a fun gig this weekend.
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Here it is in context
Nessun Dorma is one of the most amazing tunes ever written… and Puccini is my fave composer ever…
And here’s what we call a SHOW !!!
I wasn’t crazy about the Paul Potts performance…Did watch it though as a I was learning the song. However I’m glad this style of music is still getting recognition in todays pop-culture.
I can’t stand listening to stuff with such crap sound quality as the Pavarotti video…
Overall, the Potts video is 50 times less painful…
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Oh, I agree…the sound is much better on the Paul Potts video. I just liked the way Pavarotti sang it better. Don’t get me wrong…the accomplished classical singer isn’t always better. There are a number of times when you took a classical vocalist out of their element, placed them in broadway, jazz, or pop, and it was an amusing experiment but sounded awful. I just mentioned it because the Pavarotti video was the first one that came up when I searched 