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RE: 2 pÉÂÇÂɹɥʇ ʎʇıunɯɯoɆ- Grungie - 03-31-2014 I think I added a few extra open notes as it's really: 0 0 0 0 7 6 7 7 0 0 X X and no, those are D chords, play a D and then play those chords. Cuz it'll sound similar to this: X X 3 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 X X RE: 2 pÉÂÇÂɹɥʇ ʎʇıunɯɯoɆ- crazysam23 - 03-31-2014 (03-31-2014, 03:41 PM)Grungie Wrote: I think I added a few extra open notes as it's really:Wait, what is your tuning then? Because, in E standard, the notes I'm getting are: A, A, D, B, E for the first chord and A, A, C#, B, E for the second chord. Neither of those sound like any kind of D chord, when I play them. So, either they're NOT D chords, OR your tuning isn't E standard. hrug: Also, yeah, that last chord wouldn't fit if you had extra notes. Disregard. lol RE: 2 pÉÂÇÂɹɥʇ ʎʇıunɯɯoɆ- Grungie - 03-31-2014 Just looked up the chords on a couple sites, I'm playing a D 6add9(no 3rd) and it can also be A sus2sus4. If I don't add the open B and E strings, it becomes a D5/A chord. Might be what's causing Sam confusion. The second chord is a C# m7#5 So I guess that means I'm in A Major? RE: 2 pÉÂÇÂɹɥʇ ʎʇıunɯɯoɆ- crazysam23 - 03-31-2014 (03-31-2014, 04:35 PM)Grungie Wrote: Just looked up the chords on a couple sites, I'm playing a D 6add9(no 3rd) and it can also be A sus2sus4. Might be what's causing Sam confusion.Semantically, Asus2sus4 doesn't make sense. That's why I called it Asus2add11. (Note that 4 and 11 are basically equivalent, regardless of where in the chord that note is.) But we already noted that it was a suspended chord with the sus2 part. No reason to call it "double suspended", so to speak. It doesn't matter a ton, though. I could see the D6add9(no3); that makes sense. Either one would work, really. So, in order to determine which chord it actually is...I would have to hear you play it. If it leans strongly towards sounding like a D chord, then it is D6add9(no3). But if it leans strongly towards sounding like an A chord, then is it Asus2add11. Just looking at it, it's sort of ambiguous. So, please record yourself playing it. Quote:The second chord is a C# m7#5Yes. But not JUST because that chord is C#m7#5 (which is one way to look at the chord; the other way is Aadd9). Get to that in a second. The problem with looking up chords on a website is that, depending on the key, what the chord is called changes. So, in one key, the chord could be X; in another key, it could be Y. In this case, I would have to hear you play the chord progression to be able to tell whether this chord is Aadd9 or C#m7#5. Same reasoning as above, really. The reason why it is Amajor isn't just because of the C#m7#5 though. It's because the harmony, as a whole, is major. If you played an A major chord (notes: A, C#, E...I'm sure you know of a few different ways to play Amajor on the guitar neck), then it would sound resolved. The key of a progression/song is ALWAYS what the progression/song resolves to. In other words, what sounds like "home". If you played an Amajor chord after running your progression, it would sound like home. That Amajor chord wouldn't feel like it needed to "go anywhere". Make sense? RE: 2 pÉÂÇÂɹɥʇ ʎʇıunɯɯoɆ- Grungie - 03-31-2014 I'll record the demo this afternoon so you can decide if it's an A chord or a D chord, though I'm still confused with how it magically becomes one or the other when I'm still playing the same notes. RE: 2 pÉÂÇÂɹɥʇ ʎʇıunɯɯoɆ- crazysam23 - 03-31-2014 (03-31-2014, 05:22 PM)Grungie Wrote: I'll record the demo this afternoon so you can decide if it's an A chord or a D chord, though I'm still confused with how it magically becomes one or the other when I'm still playing the same notes.Well, because of the key. As I said, there are certain keys where the a chord is X, and other keys where that same chord is Y. Now, in this case, it's not because of the key. (This is pretty much why I said you picked odd chords; it's kind of hard to pin down the names of the chords, lol.) In this case, the reason is because I can't tell (without hearing you play it) how the chord is functioning. Does it sound more like an A chord or a D chord? Or does the third chord in your progression sound more like a C#m chord or an A-based chord? How is it functioning? This gets into the concept of functional harmony. You can read this lesson if you want to know what functional harmony is. I really don't know that I could explain it well. One note, don't call a VIm7 chord (often notated as vi7, the lowercase indicating it's minor) a "tonic" chord. It just would FUNCTION like the tonic, in that it can be used to help resolve part of the progression. This will make sense if you click on the link. If you ever call a vi7 chord the "tonic", you'll confuse or annoy a lot of theory people. lol RE: 2 pÉÂÇÂɹɥʇ ʎʇıunɯɯoɆ- Grungie - 03-31-2014 Basically this means music theory is bullshit RE: 2 pÉÂÇÂɹɥʇ ʎʇıunɯɯoɆ- crazysam23 - 03-31-2014 Nah, it just means it's easier to use phrases like "It acts like this, but isn't actually this" in music theory. RE: 2 pÉÂÇÂɹɥʇ ʎʇıunɯɯoɆ- carlcockatoo - 03-31-2014 Who needs music theory when you can write an entire song with one note? RE: 2 pÉÂÇÂɹɥʇ ʎʇıunɯɯoɆ- WCPhils - 03-31-2014 >notes |