Chord for Be Still

[Bach>Meer]

Hi all

Can you suggest a juicy chord for the word "presence" for Be Still for the Presence of the Lord hymn at all in the style of a minor seventh or something? Something to spice up the verse?

thanks!

[Corno Dolce]

How about a nice 13th chord - your choice of key, augmented or diminished

[Bach>Meer]

If in D Major - which notes would make that up??

thanks!

[Mat]

How about D-F#-A-C#-E-G#-B ? Might still sound nice, but slightly less dissonant.

EDIT:
Forgot you wanted it to be a minor chord. Maybe Dm6/9 (with major 7th) then?

D-F-A-B-(C#)-E

Thesea are blind guesses, as I don't know the hymn.

[JONESEY]

Isn't the chord for 'presence' an F#m? ... a bit boring maybe but I'd just stick a sus 2 or 4 as it's going to Em afterwards.

If it were a Sus 2, I'd hold the chord C# E F# A and then run down from the E on the words, ending up on the B for Lord in the Em chord.

Does that make any sense?, it's too early to think!

[pcnd5584]

Isn't the chord for 'presence' an F#m? ... a bit boring maybe but I'd just stick a sus 2 or 4 as it's going to Em afterwards.

If it were a Sus 2, I'd hold the chord C# E F# A and then run down from the E on the words, ending up on the B for Lord in the Em chord.

Does that make any sense?, it's too early to think!

Well, possibly. You could play a flattened tenth chord (or sharpened ninth, if you prefer). This gives: bass F# (in octaves), RH (ascending) F# - C# - F natural. Or, for something less likely to make some people think that you played an incorrect chord, simply F# m[inor] seventh.