Two or more pitches sounded together, with a specific intervallic relationship. See also [tag:harmony]
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Scale change in “God will make a way” by Don Moen
God will make a way starts in F scale (as far as I know).
So the chords are from F major scale. (F, Bb, C, Dm).
This is fairly simple.
But if you check the lyrics-chords from the line "By a ...
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How to learn chords for piano?
I am starting to learn some music theory and improving other things in my piano playing, and I've decided I will begin by learning chords. I've read a bit about them and I know, more or less, how they ...
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What is the convention for splitting 4 parts of the same instrument in a score?
I'm orchestrating a piece and distributing a chord among 4 bassoons.
If I were writing the French Horn part, I'd know one of the common practices would be to have two staves: one for Horns 1 and 3, ...
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Can E/G# be played like this?
I looked at several sites and I found this:
4 x 2 4 0 0
The 6th string is played on the 4th fret, correct? I found this on a message board but on the sites that I usually go to they don't show this. ...
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What named chord is this?
I'm looking for named chords - we've already identified a couple others (it's part of a puzzle, e.g. Dream chord, Electra chord, etc.)
It goes: A A# D D# G A A(low) and is played in arpeggio ...
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How can I hold a barre chord for a long period of time?
I don't know if there is a special word for this playing style - I do it like this: I take a barre and I play all single notes along - if I need a chord I just keep the barre and press all needed ...
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Harmonizing melody exercise question with specific parameters
I'm reading the book Harmony for the computer musician and there's an exercise where you need to harmonize 3 notes of a melody in D major, parameters are:
you must use the same note length as the ...
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Finding out which scales contain a specific chord
Notation note: scales will be notated as C Major, D minor, etc. and chords as Am, F, etc.
Once you know a scale, yo know which chords it contains, for example the C Major scale contains the chords:
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Finger landing order for D#m chord (and similar)
Which one is a faster finger landing order for this and similars chords:
4-3-2-1 or 3-4-2-1 (4 is a pinky finger).
I play 3-4-2-1(somehow faster for me)
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Notating Augmented Chords
When writing an Augmented chord, which inversion of the chord should I use?
The problem came up while I was composing (piano). I came to an augmented chord and couldn't think of which version to use ...
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What usally follows an Augmented major seventh chord
I don't have a clear understanding of the notation used in the following sentence from the article on Augmented major seventh chord from Wikipedia:
As with dominant seventh chords, non-dominant ...
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What chord is this?
0-0-8-7-9-7
I'm not sure if that is correct.
Here is the song I'm trying to play. I'm just trying to figure out what the first chord is, but if you recognize what the other chords are I would like ...
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How should I finger A# and F# Major on piano?
How should I finger A# and F# Major with the left hand, 5-2-1 or 5-3-1?
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How to follow the lyric to strum in guitar [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I play (and sing) a chord pattern song?
I am wondering how do I follow the lyric and strumming at the same time when I looking at the chords on the top of the ...
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Which note or chord is this [closed]
I try to play guitar with this song. But i come to this chord so i dont know how to play like this.
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What are the Most Common Piano Chords for Pop Music? [closed]
I'm looking for a list of common chord progressions for pop music on piano. I'm fairly new to piano (transitioning from guitar) and have learned that most pop songs used modified versions of chords.
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Trying to find chord progressions of a song. How?
How does one find chord progressions of a song?
I'm trying to find the sequence to: http://wildcatstrike.bandcamp.com/track/lloyd-braun-2
All I have though is A minor though :(
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How to extract musical notes(tabs) from chords?
Is there any way to extract tabs from the chord?
I am a guitar player and i want to play some songs on my guitar. I found the chords for these songs on the internet but there are no tabs available. I ...
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Finding chords that match with single notes
I just heard Lenka's "Everything at Once".
The Background chord progression is quite catchy. I tried to figure out its chords, but to no avail.
I tried singular notes: I found F A C A and also C E ...
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What is the key of this song? “All in the serve - Michael W Smith” [closed]
I would like to know what is the key (scale) of the song "All in the serve" by Michael W Smith
Video -
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Are there any consecutive 5th/octave/unison in my harmony? [closed]
I'm doing harmony exercises with a book and I was wondering if anyone could double check if I have any consecutive 5th, octave or unison in there. Also any other pointers to improve the harmony would ...
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What left hand technique is being used to create this percussive chord transition sound?
There is a strange chord transition that I cannot figure out how to play near the beginning of this acoustic guitar song:
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Chords to fit notes [duplicate]
Is there a chart, or website, or book somewhere that shows all the chords that use a particular note? Lets say I want to find a chord for the "C" in my melody. Now I want to know all the chords there ...
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Which F to use on a bass?
What F is sounds best for a bass guitar/electric bass. First fret on E string (sounds too dark) or third on D string (sounds too bright). The tune is in F minor and the next chord is Eb.
Some choices ...
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I need the name of this chord [closed]
While messing around on my MIDI keyboard i found that an interval of two semitones and then four semitones produces very interesting harmonies like eg: D-F-A# .I want to know the name of this harmony ...
