What are these chords

[BBGuitar]

Came across these chords at rehearsal last night.

What does the : mean?

[mr. beaumont]

Looks like it's just a lowercase i

So Fmi7-- is Fm7

[jameslovestal]

Looks like it's just a lowercase i

So Fmi7-- is Fm7

I agree especially since "ma" is used when it is a major.

[mr. beaumont]

One of my many pet peeves on handwritten charts

[rpjazzguitar]

Never seen it before, but it certainly looks like minor is written m: and major is written ma.

[pauln]

[PatrickJazzGuitar]

Came across these chords at rehearsal last night.

What does the : mean?

It looks like a colon, but it's really a dotted " i ". If you look at the maj chords, he's using ma for those, so his convention is consistent.

[rpjazzguitar]

I'd guess that this writer got complaints about an earlier chart (one without the dots) -- that the players couldn't distinguish minor from major.

I agree that it looks like a colon and that it can be read, successfully, as a dotted i. But, a dotted i isn't two equal dots, so my guess is that it's just an idiosyncratic way of making minor and major look different. Or it could be a strange looking dotted i like Patrick already said.

[wolflen]

the major chords have only one dot..so it appears to distinguish between minor two dots and major one dot