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A final example: If you want to create a major ''b''7 chord, you will find four suitable pitches in the horizontal Mode 4-line (Fig.3) from m=0 to m=3. If you want to replace the upper 7/4 interval with, say, a 9/5 interval, find the ''Least Common Denominator'' (''LCM'', which is 4*5=20 in this case), and you get a 20:25:30:36 chord, which lives in Mode 20 (not shown)  and sounds noticeably more dissonant.
A final example: If you want to create a major ''b''7 chord, you will find four suitable pitches in the horizontal Mode 4-line (Fig.3) from m=0 to m=3. If you want to replace the upper 7/4 interval with, say, a 9/5 interval, find the ''Least Common Denominator'' (''LCM'', which is 4*5=20 in this case), and you get a 20:25:30:36 chord, which lives in Mode 20 (not shown)  and sounds noticeably more dissonant.
== Find out more about tonal space… ==
====[[Expanding tonal space/planar extensions|Part II: Planar extensions]]====


==See also…==
==See also…==