I think we're talking about the same thing.
The instruments that I play on the whole don't do bass lines (with the
exception of bass guitar that does nothing else) but many accordions have a
row or two of buttons on the left hand that do a single note. These seem to
be used to either add a note to a chord (so one might add an A to a C to
make a C6 - and whether that could be written C/A seems to be open to
debate) or to play a tune in the bass - often a bass run as suggested (...
"D7" "/D" "/E" "/F#" "G" ...)
[Note the awkwardness of writing chords that don't match the melody
rhythmically which (I think) Laura mentioned. I'd like to keep these two
debates separate so I'm not going to suggest remedies here, only that at
present you'd have to split up the melody note into a bunch of tied notes
and write something like:
... "D7"A5/2- "/D"A- "/E"A- "/F#"A- "G"G2 ...
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard L Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 12:53 AM
Subject: RE: [abcusers] Chord notation
I think the slash chord is used to specify an additional note to be played
with the normal chord. C/A would mean to play the C chord but at the same
time play an A in the base region.
Question:
Since an e or d can be specified just as notes, is the desire to have a /e
or /d simply to keep the focus on the base part of a tune whether dealing
with chords or notes?
"Richard L Walker"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pensacola, FL 32504-7726 USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Archer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
...I like this. I'm just not sure that I like it for the same thing that
Laurie does. I quite often want to put in little bass lines as
transitions between chords. Assuming the '/' mechanism is for
specifying the bass note of a chord it seems to me to make sense
to be able to write:
"G/g" "/f#" "/e" "/d"
(or something similar depending on what exact rules we end up
with for case & accidental).
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