On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 22:15:23 Jonathan Rosanowski wrote:
> I'm new here so I apologise if this has been discussed before. It seems to
> me that interpreting the chords as actual notes is of limited value(I'm sure
> someone is going to disagree with this but can you give an example of where
> you would use it if you do). Most chordal instruments(well in Jazz anyway)
> wouldn't play C9 as <c e g bes d>.
>
> In most cases don't people just want the chords to be symbols above the
> staff? What about having a 'chord symbol mode' where you can enter the
> symbols you want and the symbols are placed there without the notes being
> interpreted and without all the guessing as to added/removed notes etc.
> ie c8:m9 -> Cm9
> c8:m11 -> Cm11
> c8:m7b5 -> Cm7b5
> c8:13 -> C13
> This would mean that there wouldn't be arguments over whether c8:maj is
> Ctriangle or CMaj7 if you could enter c8:t say for Ctriangle.
>
> This seems ridiculous c8:13^9.11 for C13, by the way here's a nice guitar
> voicing for C13 that includes the 9th <c e bes' d a>
>
> Jonathan.
Stop hitting yourself on the head and enter them as
lyrics. They look better too.
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