Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

[Laurie Griffiths]

bert van vreckem wrote:

>For info on the chord notation, see
>http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~desmith/guitar/chords/notate.htm

Hm!  His notation seems very guitar-oriented (that's OK I've
played guitar for over 35 years).

He calls xx0233 (notes are xxDADG) "Dsus4" presumably because there is a 4th
but no third.
Alas, he doesn't quote x32011 as a chord at all (notes xCEGCF)
Would he call it Cadd11 (because it has both a third and a fourth) or would
he call it Csus4.

My confidence that he knows his stuff is eroded a little by the absence of
076700 as a version of E7. (If you have a guitar, try it.  It's the best
seventh on the instrument).  He quotes only 020100 or 022130.

Laurie

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