Chord symbols?
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a half diminished chord has a minor third and a flattened fifth so your example should be g bb db f. this could be written as g-7b5 and is can also be indicated with the ø symbol i.e gø.
hope this helps
barry
gm7 / / / or perhaps
cm7 / f /
and was wondering what the slashes were for. i am assuming that it is breaking the measure up into beats, but i can't figure whether it means to play the previous chord as quarter notes, or whether to play the chord and lay out during the 'slash' beats or whatever. i'd appreciate anyone being able to shed some light on this for me. thanks.
slashes i believe indicate bass notes right? like c7/f is a c7 with a f root? but when there is more than one slash i don't know. maybe it is a way of letting know which measure the chord apears and how many it is hold for? don't know though, just a thought.
doc-z
if a specific rhythmic feel is required, you will usually see that rhythm notated in conventional notation - often in small notes above the stave.
hope this helps
barry
you are right about the slashes indicating a bass note in that context. also your c7- for a half diminished chord is simply an abbreviation of c7-5 - in other words a c7 chord with a minor or flattened fifth.
the problem with chord notation, like conventional notation is that people kind of made it up as they went along and discovered new sounds and new chords became used more commonly. this means that there a load of ways of writing the same thing. it can be confusing at first but you kind of get used to it after you come across each symbol a few times.
and of course, there's always ljp if you get stuck....:-)
barry
i'm not classically trained, so i've also just figurred things out as i've went along.
cheers!
doc-z
i'm not sure what you mean by numbers above the notes.
peter
can you give us an example?
gv
doc-z
(in your example there are also fingernumbers under the notes for the lefthand)
doc-z
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