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Why is this image from pianochord.org for A11 labeled as an inversion, when its lowest pitch note is an A?
I'm tempted to close this question because it's simply caused by a confusing website design, but the confusion itself can be addressed:
However under inversions, it shows this image
I see a button ...
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Why in musical notation may one notate the chord as dominant 7th, even though only the major triad of it is played?
Actually both Beats 1 and 4 which are notated as G#7 contain F#’s. On beat one it happens on the 3rd triplet and on beat 4 it happens one octave lower on the 1st triplet, both in the right hand.
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Diminished/Half diminished
Diminished 7 means that the 7th part is also diminished. So with C°7, the notes are in fact C, E♭, G♭, B♭♭. That last note is often mistakenly known as A.
A half diminished chord, on the other hand, ...
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piano newbie confused about how this strange (maybe) chord works
This is pretty common in music notation, especially in piano scores and wherever there is polyphony. What actually happens is that the right hand plays two distinct voices. That's why they are notated ...
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Why is this image from pianochord.org for A11 labeled as an inversion, when its lowest pitch note is an A?
Out of context, it's not possible to know the appropriate label. It could be any of the following:
A7sus2sus4, A9sus4, A11(no3), E-7/A, G6/A, D6sus2sus4/A, D6-9sus4/A, D11(no3, add6)/A, D13(no3)
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Inversion naming conventions
Inversions are named for their lowest-sounding notes - in other words, the answer to your first question is "a specific interval". Also, inversion naming is part of common practice music ...
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Diminished/Half diminished
A diminished triad is root, minor 3rd, diminished 5th. C, E♭, G♭.
A diminished 7th chord is all that plus the diminished 7th. C, E♭, G♭, B♭♭.
A half-diminished 7th (often notated as 'm7♭5') is a ...
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Diminished/Half diminished
Formulation #1 (stacks of thirds)
A fully diminished seventh chord comprises a stack of three minor thirds.
A half diminished seventh chord comprises a stack of two minor thirds and a major third.
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Why is this image from pianochord.org for A11 labeled as an inversion, when its lowest pitch note is an A?
It looks like the confusion was caused by bad website design, having a button "show/hide inversions" which shows inversions AND VOICINGS which is a separate concept. But I'll add this anyway,...
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Diminished/Half diminished
Strictly speaking, there are three chords under discussion:
the diminished triad (minor third and diminished fifth, for example, C-E♭-G♭)
the diminished seventh chord (diminished triad plus a ...
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Cannot understand this four-way close voicing example, is there a typo?
If this is truly a dominant approach then the chord is G7 and you are right. The root is G and he replaced the root (G) with the b9 (Ab) so E and F in the text must both be typos.
The thing is by ...
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Chopin Nocturne Op. 55 No. 1 chord toward end requiring large left hand
I wish you included the immediately preceding measure for the context! Here are the preceding measures from a French first edition score (1844) published by Maurice Schlesinger (see IMSLP, pdf here):
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what is the proper guideline for choosing a scale over a chord?
When playing solo over a chord, a scale should be chosen.
I would not necessarily choose a scale.
I would determine what key the chord is functioning in and then improvise in that key.
Ex. Dm7. You ...
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Inversion naming conventions
I think @ToddWilcox has answered your question as well as it can be answered from a technical standpoint. I however suggest you rethink the way you look at and label inversions.
You seem to be ...
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Isn’t the root progression or chord progression of a song meant to anchor in a foundation for rest of the instruments to experiment over?
You posted a lot of statements rather than questions. Here is one comment and one answer:
Classical on the other hand, the progressions may switch a lot more.
Some. But, a lot doesn't use much ...
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How can French A6 and V7b5/b5 be seen as the same?
You can look at it two ways. Let's take an example in C minor where the French augmented sixth chord will be spelled A♭ C D F♯:
A♭ C D F♯ can be enharmonically respelled to A♭ C E𝄫 G♭ which is A♭7♭5....
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How can French A6 and V7b5/b5 be seen as the same?
Note the passage's wording carefully. The French Augmented 6th in question spans ^♭2 to ^7 instead of the usual ^♭6 to ^♯4. This means that the French Augmented 6th in question contains ^♭2 - ^4 - ^5 -...
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Diminished/Half diminished
The other answers are missing the fundamental aspect of musical intervals that is part of source of your confusion.
Read the wiki article on intervals for a detailed description. But, the essentials ...
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Why both Ddim and Fdim resolve to Am nicely even though they are not in the same key?
Summary: The presence of G#/Ab — the leading tone in A minor — is the determining element.
First, recognize that Ddim7 and Fdim7 are enharmonically equivalent. That is, they contain the same pitches, ...
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The 7th chord as a gateway/bridge to?
Yes, the roots of the chords would touch every key. Each pair of chord roots are a major third and minor third apart, or vice versa. A major third and minor third combined make a perfect fifth (e.g., ...
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Diminished/Half diminished
A diminished seventh chord consists of the root, minor third, diminished fifth and diminished seventh: C, Eb, Gb, Bbb.
Cdim7:
A half-diminished seventh chord has a diminished fifth, but the seventh ...
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Naming some inverted chords
The 2nd chord contains E♭, F, A and C, so is fair and square F dominant 7. In any order at all, those four notes only constitute F7. However, in that 3rd inversion (E♭ at the bottom makes it that, ...
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Cannot understand this four-way close voicing example, is there a typo?
Based on some of your previous harmony question, I would suggested using different sources for study, and probably not jazz but "classical" sources, because those tend to provide stricter ...
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Isn’t the root progression or chord progression of a song meant to anchor in a foundation for rest of the instruments to experiment over?
Yes, if you had to use just one thing as the harmonic foundation, it would probably be the bass line. But just C in the bass doesn't tell us whether it's C major or C minor (or C7, Cm7, Cm7b5, C9(#11)...
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How should I see these beamed notes?
Beat 1 is Cmaj7 and at the syncopated onset of beat 3 there is an E7 chord, but the extension given of (♭13) probably makes clearer sense as an augmented chord, like Eaug7, because the base triad is ...
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How should I see these beamed notes?
The reason there are no chord symbols under the second and third eighth notes is because the underlying harmony on the first two beats is Cmaj7 until the E7 on 2+. One of the possible ways of ...
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How do you differentiate approach note from target note?
There are two different questions here:
How does one differentiate approach and target notes?
How can one tell if a certain apparent chord is actually some other chord without its root.
Approach vs. ...
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How would you label these chords?
vi viio7 I CTo V
CT = "Common Tone". Common-tone diminished chords like this one serve as a decoration or prolongation of some central chord. In this case, Eb is the common tone ...
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Does "falling fifth" pattern follow the bass tone or the chord label in case of inversions?
I generally agree with Michael Curtis's answer: most (though not all) modern harmony textbooks tend to assume "chord root" motion when speaking of a "falling fifths" sequence. ...
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what is the proper guideline for choosing a scale over a chord?
There is no "proper" guideline for setting a scale to play over a chord.
There are some standard practices in thinking about the scale-chord relationships in various styles of solo playing, ...
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