Re: [abcusers] Chord notation

[Phil Taylor]

Bert Van Vreckem wrote:
>Phil Taylor wrote:
>
>> Bert Van Vreckem wrote:
>> I always thought that chord was D11, but then I never was very good
>> at figuring out the names for these things.
>
>An 11th chord consists of 1, 3, (5), b7, (9), 11; a sus4 chord of 1, 4, 5.
>Hence, D11 = D F# (A) C (E) G, Dsus4 = D G A

Since the original chord was given as x00233, or [A,,D,Adg] in abc the
g is more than an octave above the root D, and therefore 11 rather than 4
surely?  Or is it only called 11 if you have the 7th and 9th below it?

(I have a deep suspicion of the ambiguities inherent in text-based
guitar chord symbols.  I'd really rather write them out in abc.)

Phil Taylor


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