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Does this chord have a name?


Gilliangirl

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In answer to part of Gilliangirl's original question.....

 

In music and music theory a chord is a set of three or more

different notes from a specific key that sound simultaneously.

 

The way Thermi plays, a chord is a set of any three or more

different notes from anyplace at all that sound simultaneously.

 

Me - I thought a chord was a line segment joining two points on a curve,

or a peer-to-peer system based on distributed hash tables in computing.

 

But what do I know.....

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Sweet Karen's original finger pattern:-

X00220

 

The names come up with so far:-

D maj9 (no 3rd)

A major added 4th

A sus4

Dmaj9 no third/A

A maj, add D

Dmaj7 add 9 over A (this got TWO votes)

Dmaj7 sus2

A add 11 (this got TWO votes)

D sus2 (maj7) (this got TWO votes)

 

One is reminded of Shakespeare's oft mis-quoted phrase

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet"

 

Or in the modern parlance - you got two choices.

[1] describe it with letters and numbers and sus this or added that blah blah blah words.

[2] put two fingers on a guitar neck and play the top five strings.

 

At least when you hear it you know what it sounds like, and can find a place for it in your playing.

Leastways, I have, so I am sure you can too - quit talkin' about it and play it. Way more satisfying.

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