[musictlk] Piano chords

Winona Brackett trumpetqueenwb at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 21:04:39 UTC 2014


Does anyone know of a book that teaches you how to read chords in Braille? I'm asking because I will be starting college In the fall as a music performance major and would like to know how to read chords for theory and piano. 

Winona 

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> On Mar 28, 2014, at 4:20 PM, "National Association of Guide Dog Users" <blind411 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Marissa,
>    An open fifth is the same as a perfect fifth, just another name for
> it. It consists of the root note and its perfect fifth interval without the
> minor. And inverted chord is created when you play the fifth as the lowest
> note followed by the root and the third. So, playing a "C" in  open fifth,
> you would play the c and the G. If you were to invert the c chord, you would
> play G-C-E. HTH!
> 
> Fraternally yours,
> Marion Gwizdala
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: musictlk [mailto:musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of josh lester
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 1:02 PM
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> Subject: Re: [musictlk] Piano chords
> 
> Hmmm.
> I'm not sure.
> Blessings, Joshua
> 
>> On 3/28/14, Marissa <marissat789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> People say that it's something different.  Like a a a d is an open 
>> fifth.  f-sharp c-sharp f-sharp.
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: josh lester <jlestermusic at gmail.com
>> To: Music Talk Mailing List <musictlk at nfbnet.org Date sent: Fri, 28 
>> Mar 2014 11:46:26 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [musictlk] Piano chords
>> 
>> An open fifth is when you're playing five notes at the same time, with 
>> one hand.
>> It's difficult, but I do them all the time.
>> Thanks, Joshua
>> 
>> On 3/28/14, Marissa <marissat789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why do they call an open fifth an open fifth? And an invter  chord? 
>> Is there an easy way to play those?
>> 
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