Talk:chord

Number of co-sounding notes

my Longman dictionarystates "two or more notes plaid at the same time."> Amennd definition?[. I'm not a musical expert so I preferreded here to post on a discussion page]--史凡 08:02, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

• I have always thought that it takes at least three notes to make a chord. Wikipedia agrees. (I can't remember what a comination of two notes is called) (Definition cleaned up a little) SemperBlotto 08:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
• However . . .
  • Grove Music Online - The simultaneous sounding of two or more notes.
  • Ocford Dictionary of Music - Any simultaneous combination of notes, but usually of not fewer than 3
  • Oxford Companion to Music - Two or more notes sounded together.

would it be an idea to put it as "two, but more oftenthree or more, etc. etc." -- it would also harmonize so to speak /pun with their computer siennce sense but I don't feel strongly about it merely suggesting new paragraph to paragraph.

Translations, Mandarin[ Shouldn't that replace Chinese?] according to my dictionariesxxianxxxxx弦 is for " string, geometrical cord",和弦 specifies the musical one[, strings together'], similar as one seems to take from the Japanese and Korean provided [that is circumstantial evidence, as I don't really study the latter languages for now.]].paragraph

By the way by the way,,, what does t+/- connote?

I haven't really understood the wiki code for the translation section yet though. And more over dee translations shouldalready have been checked. So I again amhesitant to make those changes-- I can provide my references aspect thatwould be more something for the corresponding Chinese entry that likelydoesn't exist yet--. I have not given in references so far and for those books it would need to be decidedrather in English Chinese or both

my speech recognition has perversely been hard to work with tried to give in this reply testimony of which testimony of which of which all the spelling and other mistakes in the above, apologies史凡 10:33, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

chordable

An adjective about musical scales. It is possible to create chords on chordable scales. All the notes have to be in the scale (some lay-musicians use the basic major and minor chords in C, and they shift only the notes they don't exist in their new scale in order to find its own chords).

The adjective "chordable" is very important for musicians who play non-classical (illegal) scales.

• the non-classical musical scale:

  do, re#, mi, sol, sol#, ti

  or same in letters: C, D#, E, G, G#, B

  is chordable

__________

• the non-classical musical scale:

  do, re, re#, fa, fa#, sol#, la, ti

  or same in letters: C, D, D#, F, F#, G#, A, B

  is chordable

Many Greek buzuki musical scales are non-chordable.
This means that many chords on these scales don't match as a sound with the solo (they are junk), and the most common solution is to either pluck fewer notes on the scale, or the guitarist p!ays standard classical chords (off-scale, not of the scale used in soloing).

chordable (adjective):
a musical scale (not necessarily classical) able to produce chords coherent to its overall mood,
and not dysfunctional cacophonies

Keyboard shortcuts with distinct keypresses

I spend a lot of time in keyboard enthusiast spaces (such as mechanical and ergonomic keyboard forums on Reddit), and the above definition is not how people use the term. A chord is in fact just multiple keypresses occurring simultaneously, such as Ctrl-K or even R-N-O (the kind of thing you might see used in stenography). See for example the glossary for the Plover stenography software. --Henrebotha (talk) 16:39, 30 April 2022 (UTC)