Re: [LAU] Chord finder

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@email-addr-hiddenwrote:

> 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@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>> 2012/7/3 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
>>
>>> 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@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net> 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.
>>>
>>
>> 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 7m
>>
>> -r
>>
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>> *
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