Matrix code cluster (Cmaj13♯11): how to play it on guitar

Matrix code cluster (Cmaj13♯11): guitar chord

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The Matrix, 1999 · Don Davis · nearest shape for the hand

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Cmaj13♯11

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Cue 1m1 “Logos / Main Titles”, m.13–15 (0:00:26–0:00:30): the crescendo over the black screen that bursts into the first green Matrix code and the title card

Seven neighbouring notes sound at once. The trombones creep in with C, D, E and F sharp, then the horns add G, A and B right on top, filling in every note of the C Lydian scale inside a single octave. The cluster grows from a whisper to a roar over the black screen at the start of The Matrix and breaks into the first shot of the green code. Heckman calls these scale clusters the 'human' sound of the score; the machines get chromatic clusters instead.

Also called Code Cluster, human cluster

Sources: Christopher James Heckman, Taking the Red Pill (UCLA PhD dissertation, 2018), pp. 7–9 (PDF pp. 29–31), Example 1a and Example 1-1a · The Matrix (1999), Omni Music Publishing

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What’s in it

R C3 E5 Gleft out7 B9 Dleft out♯11 F♯13 A

About this shape

Lowest note: C3, the root
Highest note: F♯4, the ♯11th
Stretch: 2 frets
Fingers: 4 fingers

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