[musictlk] Chord chart

Tyler programmer651 at comcast.net
Sat Feb 15 18:46:50 UTC 2014


It's a flat. Visually, a flat looks like a b. Sharp is #. Like f# for f-sharp. 
So the b is flat.
Tyler Z
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:43:04 -0800, marissa wrote:


>
>I have no clue how to write that.  But, when you say like an eb 
>or fb or something like that, is the b the flat or the sharp?
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com
>To: Music Talk Mailing List <musictlk at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:36:31 -0800
>Subject: Re: [musictlk] Chord chart
>
>Hello,
>You don't really need one, just know the intervals
>major third minor third is a major
>minor third major third is a minor
>for example:
>c, e, g = major third, minor third (c, e = major third), (e, g = 
>minor
>third).
>c, eb, g = minor third, major third.  (c, eb = minor third), (eb, 
>g =
>major third).
>Don't just use your tts and scroll over those descriptions, read 
>them
>letter by letter or they won't make sense.
>From what you gave as an example, you are getting lost with 
>inversions
>as well.
>Each chord is basically 3 notes, and they are bassed off 
>something
>called a "root".  This "root" is what we say when we reference 
>the chord:
>"C minor chord, G major chord, E major chord..."
>The root is what we base everything off of.  The other notes can 
>be
>either above or below the root in the scale, so the chord can be: 
>e, c,
>g or g, e, c or g, c, e or any order you can think of.
>But when you are trying to figure out a chord, you pick apart the 
>notes
>and put them into what we call root position.  That is:
>c, e, g
>In root position you have 2 3rds of some quality stacked on top 
>of one
>another.
>Try and process the above and really understand it, because all 
>chords
>are based off 3rds in some way.  They are all stacked 3rds.
>Once you get that idea, you can move to using the thought that a 
>triad
>is composed of a root, a 3rd and a 5th.  That means that from the 
>root, a
>triad has a note that is both a 3rd above it and a note that is a 
>5th
>above it.  So a triad is both 2 3rds stacked on top of one 
>another and it
>is a 3rd and a 5th above the base.  Most musicians think of 
>chords as a
>3rd and 5th above the base.  That is because when you move to non 
>root
>position chords, (e, g, c) you look at the bottom note which is 
>actually
>called the bass.  So in a root position chord you have the root 
>as "the
>bass" in the chord (e, g, c), you have the e as "the bass".
>When referencing the chord you only need to know the root, bass 
>and
>quality in order to tell someone what to play on the piano.  A 
>chord in
>this format is:
>G root position minor chord.
>Root position is often just referenced as "G minor" rather than 
>saying
>"G root position minor".
>With E in the bass on a c chord, we call it "first inversion".  
>That
>means that:
>bass = e
>root = c
>quality = major
>so you would say: "c first inversion major chord".
>This holds true for all triads.
>If you have g in the bass on the above c major chord, it would be 
>called
>"second inversion".  So you would say "c second inversion major 
>chord".
>bass = g
>root = c
>quality = major
>There are other chords that add extra notes in thirds above the 
>5th, so
>you have something like: "c, e, g, b" and that is called a C7 
>chord.  But
>don't worry about those right now.  Just get the 2 main 
>qualities, major
>and minor and that all chords are 3rds stacked on top of one 
>another
>which is also known as a root, 3rd and 5th.
>The major chord is exactly the same as the minor chord, but the 
>3rd is a
>half step down in the minor chord from the major chord.
>so write back with your own chord chart based off the above 
>description.
>I'll give you an example:
>c, e, g = c root position major chord
>c, eb, g = c root position minor chord
>c#, e#, g# = c# root position major chord
>c#, e, g# = c# root position minor chord
>d, f#, a = d root position major chord
>d, f, a = d root position minor chord
>...
>Hope this helps!
>
>Brandon Keith Biggs
>
>On 2/15/2014 6:55 AM, marissa wrote:
>Hi,
>Does anyone have a chord chart? A basic one that explains the 
>chords,
>minor and major? Like this:
>
>c chord, c e g.
>g minor chord: g d b
>Wrong notes, I know.
>
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