Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: > On 18/07/19 15:42, David Kastrup wrote: >>> But provided the bottom string is part of the chord, it doesn't really >>> > matter. After all, chords are quite often inverted in other music too, >>> > no? > >> An inversion is an inversion. Guitar chords tend to be comparatively >> nonchalant about them except for the root note, and that's what we are >> talking about here. > > Isn't the whole point of an inversion that the root isn't at the bottom? > At least that's what I remember from my music theory.
Well, it's more a matter of "voicing" than of "inversion" with a guitar since mapping chords to notes is different on a fretboard instrument than on a keyboard instrument (I don't want to discuss clavichords here). > So a C-chord using all six strings is a first inversion - the 3rd of > the chord is at the bottom. Which probably does sound not too good on > its own ... It actually sounds awful. The lowest note sort-of determines what you'd call the equivalent of an inversion on a guitar. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
