On Thursday 04 April 2002 16:48 pm, John Chambers wrote: > Lest someone thing that it's silly to have a term for chords without > a third, I might note that you can buy accordions with a gadget that > cuts out the thirds from all the left-hand chords. So there's enough > demand for such chords that manufacturers have made it an available > option. Maybe this sounds odd in your style of music, but be assured > that it is normal in some others. If not, who would be buying those > accordions? And I've seen notation like "A5" used to mean an A chord > with just A+E and no third.
A5 or Ano3 is the generally accepted way of notating the very common two note root+fifth power chord in rock guitar parts (which is the direction I'm coming from...) -- Mike Whitaker To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
