
Long ago, when I first started dissecting barbershop music (and, yes, baritones DO have the strangest part!), I had a great 'chord spelling' chart; unfortunately, it was lost some years ago and I've never been able to find a good replacement. My daughter recently ran across some 'fake sheets' for current pop songs, which have naught but lyrics and guitar chords; she started asking me "What's a Cdim7? How do you play an Fm9b5?" I thought of my old chord speller, and decided to create my own.
Simply put, it's a one-pager that includes:
- Nomenclature (e.g. dominant 7th, minor 6th, etc.),
- Symbol notation (e.g. Cm7, C+, etc.),
- Scale note formula (e.g. C minor triad = "1 b3 5"), and
- Chord listings (e.g. "Gbm9 = Gb A Db E Ab")
You can grab a PDF copy of Chordspeller from my Slideshare library.
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