Hey everyone,
Hopefully, you're all having a great time! :) I've got a question that I can't answer myself. For my current studies and arrangements I am trying to name every chord that I assign.
However, naming these chords leads to the following question:
How do you seperate different chord voicings in chord names?
I know that basic triads are formed with three notes. Let's take the C major chord. Taking from the C major scale, we get the 1 - 3 - 5, translating into C - E - G which is fine. If I were to use these three notes I would get the following notes on the guitar
1.-------
2.-------
3.--0-----
4.--2-----
5.--3-----
6.-------
This would give me the basic triad, wouldn't it? Now, I can inverse these chords which leads to different base base notes and so on but my question now is:
The basic, iopen C Major chord that we are all taught is played like this:
C - E - G - C - E
I know that this chord still contains the three basic triad notes C-E-G but there are two Cs and two Es which are both in different octaves.
Does this basically change the name of the chord to somehow distinguish it from a basic triad? Is there something like a 3-ton-voicing and 4 or 5-tone-voicings? Does it actually matter if I have 10 notes played as long as it still contains the three basic three notes of the chord? (based on triads)
Thanks a lot !:)
Cheers,
Lukas
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Guitar: Started January 2016
Styles/Genres I am currently studying:
- Classical Guitar
- Latin Style (Flamenco, Soleares)
- Folk Style (Pop, Celtic, Irish, Gypsi)
- (Fingerstyle) Blues
- (Fingerstyle) Jazz