[musictlk] Chord chart

Sat Feb 15 18:49:39 UTC 2014

O, ok thanks.  I've always wondered that whenever I searched for 
things on google for right hand melody lines.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Tyler <programmer651 at comcast.net
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Date sent: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:46:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [musictlk] Chord chart

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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