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RE: Need a musician - 8/1/2010 2:02:47 AM

Termyn8or

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Mm, I had to jump in here.

Now if you are playing a regular E major on a guitar, you are at the fourth string on the second fret. But taking that to the third fret is also a chord. WTF is that called like an A fourth or something ? I started to study this but this thread piqued by interest.

On a guitar some chords are actually more than one chord, like they can be an A this and a D that simultaneously. E and A work the same way, as do G and C. Of course I know this has to do with how the (standard) guitar is tuned. But now I think it was tuned that way because, it is simply the right way to do it, in other words, that is how it is supposed to be.

But to get on the OP here, I think some smaller ones are needed. I think it would sound good and when it comes to chords I have an idea or three. As I mentioned about the E chord on a guitar, of course we know the major and minor are only a fret away, as is the chord I asked about. But perhaps in some way those particular notes that are close together, too close to harmonize could be physically placed somehow so they would rarley chime at the same time.

Just an idea, whaddya think ?

Hell if it works you'd be able to tell which way the wind was blowing just by the sound ! (jk), wait, maybe I'm not joking. I trip myself out sometime when the good shit comes in. LOL

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RE: Need a musician - 8/1/2010 7:50:32 AM

Musicmystery

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There's nothing there that's gonna help his wind chime project. And chimes sound no matter which way the wind blows.

Your guitar chord information is not quite right. Yes, the notes in some chords could serve different harmonies...CEGA is a C6, and ACEG is an A-minor7, for example (though what you have above isn't so--maybe you're thinking of a major chord vs. a suspended fourth, like the beginning of Pinball Wizard, or Led Zeppelin's Ramble On). But even then, that's not what matters. Inversions of a chord affect the harmony, and we often today use entire chords suspended over pedals, like C/G, or Gm7/C (Fire and Rain uses this).

Not sure what you mean by "smaller ones." His idea already calls for one smaller set of chimes. Or do you mean smaller intervals? They would clash, and belong in the smaller chime if at all; lower ones would sound muddy.

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