Maybe I was too cryptic.
I know what the note is, it's G - but if I write "G" then
I'd expect a guitarist (accordionist, mandolinist,...) to
play a chord of G major. So how do we write "just
the G by itself". I don't fancy writing something to
parse "just the G by itself" any more than I fancied
parsing "F sharp minor". So what do we write?
One suggestion was "G!" another was "g".
Given that "F#/G" means 'the chord "F#" with a
G bass note added', I wondered whether "/G"
meant 'the chord "" with a G bass note added"
and as the chord "" has no notes in it (but I'm
labouring the point). Having invented it, I'm not
sure that I like it. So I repeat, "any takers?"
Laurie
----- Original Message -----
From: John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [abcusers] Chord notation
Laurie writes:
|
| Incidentally, it occurred to me that "/G" would be a logical name for the
| degenerate single-note chord which has G in the bass and nothing else.
Any
| takers?
Well, as an accordion player, my response would be "What's the
difference?" That's pretty much a description of the first two rows
of "chords" on the left side of an accordion. Though players tend to
call them "bass notes", they are usually made up of two or more reeds
that sound in different octaves, so they are "chords" in this
degenerate sense. And, of course, organs and harpsichords have
similar multi-octave coupling mechanisms.
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