Why not use everything? If you pick up a book of chords it can be daunting,
but allowing a program to build any chord should be very straightforward.
Different scales might use different notes (my knowledge isn't horribly
strong here) but it seems the concept of the "starter set" could be done
away with for allowing almost anything chord related.
You start with an R,3,5 root (like C-E-G where C=R, E=3 and G=5).
Using the 3, you use 3b for a minor or 3# (or 4) for a suspended.
Using the 5, you use 5b for a flat or 5# for an augmented.
Using the R, you add a 7 for a major 7th, a 7b for a dominant 7th or a 6 for
a 6th.
For dominant:
The 7 is R,3,5,7b
The 9 is R,3,5,7b,9
The 11 is R,3,5,7b,(9),11
The 13 is R,3,5,7b,(9,11),13
For Major:
The M7 is R,3,5,7
The M9 is R,3,5,7.9
The M11 is R,3,5,7,(9),11
The M13 is R,3,5,7,(9,,11),13
For Diminished 7th use R,3b,5b,7bb
For Half Diminished use R,3b,5b
The chords might look daunting, but the programming to allow them all should
not require that much programming (Warning, I neither program nor am I a
musician - although I have started lessons. Also, there might be errors in
the above. It was hastily typed.).
"Richard L Walker"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pensacola, FL 32504-7726 USA
-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of Laurie Griffiths
...The question is "what's in the standard set?". I had (from memory)
major,
minor, diminished, augmented, 6th, seventh, major seventh, ninth, just (the
root), just (root and fifth) and a mechanism for adding an extra bass note.
I also suggested a mechanism to allow people to define extra chords...
...I don't know whether C7(9)+13 is gibberish or meaningful or, if
meaningful,
what it might mean. I just know that there are people (including Frank) who
need things which (to my eye) look like that and I think BUT DON'T KNOW (I
floated it here and Frank didn't reply) that the extension mechanism that I
had proposed was inadequate because it would in effect have meant either
including a "boiler plate" of thousands of chords at the start of every jazz
guitar file or else writing out a definition of (almost) every chord to be
used. So I think he wanted a language which in effect put just about
anything one could dream of in the starter set. I hope some time tomorrow
to look through Mike Whitaker's the language proposal again, but I am in no
position to judge it...
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