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it seems the most attractive music has really good chords. i do not even really know what chords are though. and power-chords. people always say, "yeah, man, that band is just all power-chords, and chords", even though it sounds awesome. that link has diagrams of the top-8 most popular "power chords" or whatever. how do i actually read those? ive posted tons ofmy music around here but its just all beats, id like to knwo how to make some good sounding, like, "air-space" in them. open them up a little bit with some beautiful spots |
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and what the fuk does 'major', 'minor', mean? A major? B major? no idea what the fuck that's all about |
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"Castrato - Male singers who were castrated to preserve their alto and soprano vocal range." hahahahahahahahahahaha |
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thats not a power chord a power chord is a two note chord of the first and fith note! 2 notes e.g. the power chord for E consist of E (the root) and B (the fith) |
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so a power chord is any two notes that are played at the same time and are 4 notes in between? start with E and then B is the fifth note up from it. ok. |
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what is a chord that contains more than 4 notes |
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if you include bass in a track does that also count as part of the chord? |
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why do people bother with tabs? learn how to read music. cygnus. press G, C, E on a keyboard. it is a chord. it is a lovely sound.. |
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Amaj7add9 is the loveliest chord EVER"!!!! |
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sorry correction Amajadd9 (no 7th) |
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in fact fuck all aditional 9ths are great why else would people like message in a bottle its amde of arpegiated add9's |
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C G Am F |
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did you finish that track? i bet you havent |
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i am stll waiting for you to break up the wavs! :P Amajadd9 = A + C# + G# + B + E |
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GCE sounds cheesy kinda |
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sorry i meant structure the song! |
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what?! i did! and i mailed them to you g,c,e is a Cmajor which is the cheesiest chord |
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electronic musicians, ladies and gentlemen. |
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i thought you were doing that. i forgot. damn |
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hurry up if its done in time it may get on cash in the attic lol |
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hahah are you going to be a sell out and choose something 'nice' or are you going to fuck shit up and play some crazy music on daytime t.v? |
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i am gonna play a gabber rendition of FUCK FUCKY FUCK FUCK! |
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Mind that different chords sound better with different synths, wavforms, octaves, filters, frequencies, whatever. Likewise, if you are going through a batch of presets and think "jesus all these presets suck" then you are probly playing them too high or too low. When playing with chords, the best sounds to use are piano sounds. If you can get ahold of a good piano soundfont, or can get access to the NI bosendorfer grand kontakt player, that might be a better instrument for you to learn your chords from. I have plans on a decent stage piano, just for some reliable quality piano sounds that I can learn theory on it. |
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PS. Don't quote me on this, but your nord 2 should come with the chord memory option. Its really sweet. You can program certain notes to hit when you hit one note, allowing you to play chords with a single key. |
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I'd (Seriously now) advice you to take piano lessons for a year or so. It really helped me with my music, i was always inspired after learning a little music theory. I can barely play puff the magic dragon on the piano now, but i feel that the basic knowledge is helpfull to me. Minor, Major is (roughly) if the chord has a "happy" or a "sad" feel to it. (Minor, being the sad one if i rememberm correctly, i learned this in danish where there are completely different words for all this) |
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Also, i´d say, chords in themselves are nothing, but how you combine the chords makes the song. Say, you want to make a sad song, if you muck about with only minor chords to make a sad song, it can get kind of boring, but if you use some major chords, and then plop in a minor of sorts, it can really hit hard. Does that make sense? |
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in danish, i think minor is "softice" and major is "pylser" or "kylling". |
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Please in gods name, dont tell me you've been listenening to Shubidua........ !!!!!!! |
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:O |
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It seems the other scandinavians on the board always remember the shitty danish bands!!! Argh!!! you with shubidua. Vlari mentioned Østkyst hustlers the other day. FUCK! I have one thing to say if any of you swedish get cheeky: E-type!!! E-TYPE DAMMIT!!! And ARMY OF LOVERS!!! But i cant remember any crap norwegian bands now.... Help me out someone! |
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Because it is much much easier when you first go and buy your first £99.99 amp & electric guitar and want to become the next big rock act (or these days I suppose it'd be the next big "washed out sounding, wanky 70s throwback indie soft-rock hipster") it's so much more immediately gratifying (compared to sitting down and learning to read music and learning the associated fingering) to follow one guitar tab diagram to get your fingers in position and then strum the strings arhythmically, whilst going "yeah, yeah, yeah" in a voice that trys to sound loud, without actually being so loud that your parents can hear you. |
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yeah, man, that band is just all power-chords, and chords. (this thread is fucking awful) |
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why are you always such a fucking hater? youve posted your drawings tons here and i thought they were awesome. so why aren't you cool, like your artwork? ive never even insulted you and you have this like vendetta out to shit on every thread i make. please go fuck yourself |
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if I didn't know my music theory, nothing said so far in this thread would be informative at all.. though I'm completely self-taught, and I probably have some rough edges (like where I start counting and so-on). first off, cygnus, those diagrams you posted are for guitars, and they represent a guitar. The numbers indicate which finger you should put there. the black line is the upper fret. a chord is when you play more than one note at the same time and there are lots of different chords and lots of different voicings (like GCE which is a differently voiced CMajor (and probably something else as well)). a major chord consists of the root, third (counting the root as 1 then next step is 2, etc) and fifth notes of a major scale. A major scale starts on any note then proceeds upwards and the intervals are (in semitones (if you don't know what a semitone is, it is the interval from one key to the next counting all the black ones): root + 2 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 2. If you play a C Major, that means you play all the white keys from C to C on a piano. A D Major will have two black keys. A minor scales intervals are: root + 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 2. The A Minor is played on all the white keys from A to A. Now, there are many more scales (all the white keys from any key to another has a name.. there's ionic, dorian, lydian, mixolydian (I never remember which is which, though, and some are just technical names for minor and major), but you only need to worry about Major and Minor for now. When you see something noted as "C" or "CM" or "CMaj", it's a C Major. If it's "Cm", it's C minor, and to figure out how the chord goes, you start with the note that's written and then you count as I said further up; first, third and fifth. If it's a "C7", you add the seventh as well. |
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