On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Ah, ok. That's a misconception on my part that's easy to fix.
> My references don't talk about 'bass' note, instead they refer
> to 'inversion/inversie (dutch)' (pitch). In C/E, the 'E' is the
> inversion:
>
> <c e g> / E -> <e g c>
>
> you can see the chord being inverted: the c moves up. Because of this
> name 'inversion', I assumed that the inversion pitch must be a part
> of the chord.
>
> So, instead of issuing a warning: 'not part of chord', the 'inversion'
> pitch should be added silently?
Yes. The chord/bass concept comes probably from guitar players. If you
play C/E on a guitar you wouldn't play <e g c> but rather <E c e g c' e'>
or <e g c' e'>. You usually don't care about the order of the pitches in
the chord - you are lucky if you find any way to finger it (except for the
bass note, of course).
harti
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