What do you mean "calculates chords"? Depending on which style of music a chord
symbol like E7#9 might mean a lot of different things.
1) Hendrix style it's the archetypical position 6 chord we all come to love.
2) In jazz it's probably E7 using F minor melodic (+5) or E7 using diminished scale.
3) For bass players it's just E7 whatever.
4) for piano players vocings might include cfg (you'd call that Csus then?) of g#-d-g or
E-B (a good open fifth blues style)
There's no royal road to this... work through all of them in all keys... get the sound in your
ear, not your computer! E#9 can be cfg(Csus??) c#fbf (Bm) gbd(gmajor) (gbfd) (g minor)
and so forth. Any halfway decent book on chords and harmony will contain several years
of study material you need to practice to be able to use, recognize and understand.
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Kevin Thoma <kevin.thoma88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, I think there are a lot of people who are simply musicians for whom it is important to name chords appropriately. If I want a certain emotion to be conveyed, it's often vital that I do play, say, a Cadd9 instead of a simple C major. And if need to communicate with someone about a chord progression, that's the language I have to use. (Unless I want to be all "put your fingers here and there." ;) )On topic: I think such a tool would be quite helpful. Kind of surprised it doesn't exist yet, there are definitely many use cases for it.On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
_______________________________________________Ralf, no hard feelings but may Hendrix et al. have mercy on you if you can't distinguish a 7 from a 7+ or a 7m2012/7/3 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 10:38 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 20:41 -0400, Ricardus Vincente wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 17:34 -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> > Opps ... sometimes I do type faster than my brain works. Of course I
> >> > meant to say that c e g would be G Major :)
> >>
> >> BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!
> >>
> >
> > Well, another chord we name it different here ;), but don't worry,
> > everybody should understand what app you wish to get.
> >
> One which automatically transposes C to G =). Or, alternatively, that
> recognizes a Gsus.
Serious, is there a command line tool or a GUI based tool that
"calculates" cords?
OT: At least I should fire up Qtractor now, but I'm still short in time.
FWIW I don't care, I only know that the OP is mistaken, because I teach
music and the pupils wished to know about theory. For "God's sake", in
Germany we also have a "theory of harmony" regarding to it's
functionality, e.g. c d# f# a is a symmetrical cord. Nobody cares about
it's name, but we care a lot about the emotions people listening to this
cord.
Since I'm a guitarist most of the chords I prefer are named insane.
Jimi Hendrix: Eb(no 3rd), Aadd9 and the sharp ninth, E7#9. Set to the
situational context I simply name "E7#9" "E major", so a simple blues
gets "Voodoo Chile"-quality.
However, as long as we don't try to get a certificate from an academy,
the names of cords are completely irrelevant.
It's bullshit, nobody needs to know. For a gig we need to know what
emotion should be transmitted, so we only need scripts that remind us to
the basics, such as C or C-. If the cord is a 7, major or minor etc.
shouldn't matter.
-r
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