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For general questions about chords like how to play them, construct them, or what symbols represent them. For more in depth analysis of the ideas behind chords themselves, please use the chord-theory tag.
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Do chords introduce interference/beating?
Mathematically the beat can be described in such a way: If you have a product of two (different) sine waves then the product of these can be written as a superposition of two frequencies, one having t …
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What is this chord?
Well, the chord is simply what it is. It might serve some functions and be classified in certain harmonic systems, but that is quite arbitrary and would depend on the context. For example in classic h …
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Getting \displayLilyMusic to output chord symbols
\chordmode is a special keyword that tells the parser to create such chords. This means that after parsing the file Lilypond does not know that this was entered using \chordmode. …
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G Chord Question
He is only striking the E,A,D and G string is not very helpful if we do not know what notes he is playing on these strings. F in a G major chord would be a G dominant 7 chord, which conventionally res …
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What is the function of the last chord in Final Fantasy VIII's "Liberi fatali"?
I’d say: The part before is definitely centered on a D minor tonality, we have an ostinato on D minor, A maj7, F major, G major which we can interpret as I V7 I7 IV# in D minor. Then we get some sort …
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Can Flat ii Function as a Dominant and Pre Dominant?
But commonly you’d find these sort of chords on the bVI instead of bII, functioning as a secondary dominant. Classic progression there would be
vi7 - i46 - V4-3 - i …
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How do I read chords with beams?
To determine the chords try to evaluate if a note is in fact a chord note, and ignore them if they are not. …
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E7add9+ Why is there a D?
Generally in jazz chord names the base 7-chord is taken to be the dominant 7-chord. So when you read E7 the 7-th does not depend on the scale like it would with standard figured bass notation, but it …
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Why does my power chord sound higher when I play the same notes on a different string on my ...
A slightly different explanation: I suppose you have power chords with some distortion (an acoustic guitar also does have some non-linearity, but to a less extent). …
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How to display Alt chords in Lilypond?
But if you need this more often you could define the chord modifier alt to simply be able to enter e:alt like this:
\version "2.22.2"
\header {
title = "Alt Chords"
}
%% taken from scm/chord-ignatzek-names.scm …
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A major in a C# major progression
Let’s take this to C major to be less confusing. Then we’d have C - Am - F - Ab. Ab can be seen as low altered mediant of C, which is not an uncommon thing to do. Basically what you’re doing there is …
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Sus chords? Or Ret chords?
I don’t like sus2 chords anyway, so let’s not call them anything, let’s just ignore them (this is a MP reference). …
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why does this Aminor "augmented" progression resolve in Gmajor?
Effectively what you’ve got here is two plagal cadences. You have Am - Cm - G - Dm - C - Ebaug - G. So in the context of G mixolydian this would be II - IVb - I - V - IV - bVI - I. Note that II,IV,IVb …
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lilypond redefining guitar chord spelling for each bookpart
By doing
\storePredefinedDiagram #default-fret-table
\chordmode { c'' }
#guitar-tuning
"x;x;10-3;9-2;8-1;8-1;"
you modify the h …
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What does it mean for a chord to be relative to the Dominant?
Other answers here have already explained well that this is supposed to mean the relative minor chord to the the dominant chord. This is a translation of the original German text:
Note that in German …