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Came across these chords at rehearsal last night.
What does the : mean?
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11-28-2023 02:08 PM
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Looks like it's just a lowercase i
So Fmi7-- is Fm7
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One of my many pet peeves on handwritten charts
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Never seen it before, but it certainly looks like minor is written m: and major is written ma.
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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.
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the major chords have only one dot..so it appears to distinguish between minor two dots and major one dot
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I haven't seen this "C2" chord notation on a common lead sheet, apparently it's a C add9 (C-E-G-D). Somewhat odd in that they notated the G add9 as G/A. The tune is Wichita Lineman.
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Is it meant to be an ‘i’?
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The C2? It's a major chord.
Actually, I just found another chart in which it is called C(add9) so I suppose this new chart solves the riddle but raises new ones, e.g., the G/A in the first measure of the old chart is now called an Am7(add 4), which is quite different - but all of this could probably be cleared up by listening to Glen Campbell. Jimmy Webb wrote some cool chord changes.
Last edited by Mick-7; 09-22-2024 at 01:15 PM.
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I mean the letter ‘i’
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I had to go and listen to both. I hear what you're talking aboput. Something must have been in the air.
One sounds like "heavenly clouds of regret" and the other one sounds like "atmospheric radio static rippling thru a longing heart."
In the Moody Blues I hear mellotrons (choir, flute and string settings?) while I hear a real orchestra in Wichita Lineman. I know there is also an electronic theater organ set to "funny" or "sci-fi," per Jimmy Webb. During the "still on the line" Csus2 BbMaj part there's a soft attack flute that reminds me of a distant morse code thru a fog.
edit: I'm wrong about the mellotrons! On the back of the Moody Blues album it says "with the London Festival Orchestra"Last edited by supersoul; Yesterday at 09:53 AM.
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RIP Nick Gravenites
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