enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Barre chord - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barre_chord

    To play an Fchord the guitarist may barre strings so that the chord root is F ♯. Most barre chords are "moveable" chords, [1] as the player can move the whole chord shape up and down the neck. [2] Commonly used in both popular and classical music, barre chords are frequently used in combination with "open" chords, where the guitar's open ...

  3. Slash chord - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_chord

    D/F ♯ (alternately notated D major/F ♯ bass) notated in regular notation (on top) and tabulature (below) for a six-string guitar. Play ⓘ.. In music, especially modern popular music, a slash chord or slashed chord, also compound chord, is a chord whose bass note or inversion is indicated by the addition of a slash and the letter of the bass note after the root note letter.

  4. Suspended chord - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_chord

    A suspended chord (or sus chord) is a musical chord in which the (major or minor) third is omitted and replaced with a perfect fourth or a major second. [1] The lack of a minor or a major third in the chord creates an open sound , while the dissonance between the fourth and fifth or second and root creates tension.

  5. Guitar chord - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_chord

    The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments. For example, in the guitar (like other stringed instruments but unlike the piano ), open-string notes are not fretted and so require less hand-motion.

  6. Chord notation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_notation

    Added tone chord notation is useful with seventh chords to indicate partial extended chords, for example, C 7add 13, which indicates that the 13th is added to the 7th, but without the 9th and 11th. The use of 2, 4, and 6 rather than 9, 11, and 13 indicates that the chord does not include a seventh unless explicitly specified.

  7. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_musical_symbols

    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  8. Nashville Number System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Number_System

    Other chord qualities such as major sevenths, suspended chords, and dominant sevenths use familiar symbols: 4 Δ 7 5 sus 5 7 1 would stand for F Δ 7 G sus G 7 C in the key of C, or E ♭ Δ 7 F sus F 7 B ♭ in the key of B ♭. A 2 means "add 2" or "add 9". Chord inversions and chords with other altered bass notes are notated analogously to ...

  9. Chord substitution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_substitution

    F–C7–F, FF ♯ 7–F, B–F ♯ 7–B, then B–C7–B. In music theory, chord substitution is the technique of using a chord in place of another in a progression of chords, or a chord progression. Much of the European classical repertoire and the vast majority of blues, jazz and rock music songs are based on chord progressions. "A chord ...