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	Chord
		Chords are also said to have a function in their diatonic scale, which relates to the expected resolution of each chord within a key.
		When a chord progression resolves to a III or IV chord, it is called a Tonic Substitution, because the stable III or VI chord is being used as a substitute for the expected I chord.
		The dominant seventh chord is useful to composers because of the fact that it is a major chord with a very strong sound, that also includes a tritone between the third and seventh of the chord.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chord.html (2241 words)

	Learn more about Chord (music) in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If the chord is an inversion, a lower case letter is written after the roman numeral: b for a first inversion, c for a second inversion and d for a third inversion.
		While the dominant seventh chord is typically built on the fifth (or dominant) degree of a major scale, the minor seventh chord is built on the second, third, or sixth degree.
		Chords not formed from thirds are named similarly for the interval used, thus a chord made from two fourths on top of each other is quartal.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ch/chord__music_.html (2645 words)

	Chord Formation-- 30 Jan 2002
		As stated in the description of Table 4, a chord fits within a key when all the notes in the chord are contained in the key (major keys are shown in Table 2).
		The fifth chord uses 1 - 5 (there is no third), the sus2 chord uses 1 - 2 - 5 (the third is suspended and replaced by the second), and the sus4 chord uses 1 - 4 - 5 (the third is suspended and replaced by the fourth).
		It might seem logical to call a "suspended" chord one with the third removed, but this is not done (that chord is called the "fifth").
	home.earthlink.net /~kstengel226/guitar/theory/chord_formation.html (1410 words)

	Fundamentals of Music Theory Part II: The Types of Chords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In standard chord naming convention, instead of writing down all the notes in a chord, often just one note is chosen as the root note and a chord name is given that tells you where the other notes are relative to the root note.
		Suspended chords are quite common but not as common as the standard root-third-fifth triads.
		An augmented chord is like when something shocks or surprises you and makes you jump though you don't know yet whether the surprise is going to be really good or really bad whereas a diminished chord is more like walking into the aftermath a bloody battle.
	home.comcast.net /~jeromys-site/musicchordtypes.htm (2590 words)

	An Introduction To Chords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A major chord consists of a 'root' (the note on which the chord is based, usually also the lowest note of the chord), the note a 'major third' (four half-steps) higher than the root, and the note a 'minor third' (three half- steps) higher than the second note.
		This "seventh chord as the dominant of a scale" is known as a "dominant seventh" or "major-minor seventh", and the term "seventh chord", if not modified somehow, almost always refers to this chord.
		A "suspended chord" also lacks the third, but differs from a power chord in that there is usually some other note added to replace the missing third.
	www.radix.net /~dglenn/chords/chords.html (3231 words)

	Christian Guitar Forums - chords G2
		"2" chords are a suspended chord, and the 2 means that the chords are triads built from the 1st, 2nd, 5th notes of a major scale, instead of the normal 1st, 3rd, 5th notes that make up a major chord.
		The chords with the "slashes" in their titles are often refered to as "slash chords", which is really a colloquial phrase for a chord inversion, and the note following the slash refers the the base note in the inversion.
		That being said, you can use a suspended 4th and the corresponding suspended 2nd chord that is up a 4th from the root chord interchangeably as chord subsitutions, provided that you know your circle of 5ths and chord inversions appropriately.
	www.christianguitar.com /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=87 (1470 words)

	Jazz-Primer.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Suspended chords, for the most part, are associated with Dominant 7th chords.
		The suspended tone, the 4th degree from the root, creates tension that is relieved when the suspended note resolves to the 3rd of the chord.
		As with the suspended chord the minor 11th must also resolve - but to the minor 3rd, one whole step down.
	guitar-primer.com /Jazz/Skill2.html (88 words)

	Chord (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chords are also distinguished and notated by the scale degree of their root note or bass note.
		In chord notation, the sixth of either chord is always assumed to be a major sixth rather than a minor sixth.
		Borrowed chords are chords borrowed from the parallel minor or major.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chord_(music) (3740 words)

	Suspended Chord Formulas 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The suspended 2nd chord (sus2) consists of a root (1st), 2nd, and a 5th.
		If a sus2 chord is constructed from the 2nd degree in the key of C then the starting note, or root, would be D. To obtain the next note in the chord, go up a whole step.
		The suspended 4th chord (sus4) is constructed with a root, a 4th, and a 5th.
	www.daddydoodle.com /suschf.html (472 words)

	Chords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A suspended chord is a passing chord that demands resolution to a major chord or 7th.
		A typical chord progression would be I, IV, Vsus4, V7, I. In the key of G that would be G, C, Dsus4, D7, G. Suspended chords are used on the I chord also and resolve to the I chord.
		The one augmented chord he chose for the example setup used the augmented formed on the root of the principal key.
	www.autoharpworks.com /pages/WebHelp/Chords.htm (663 words)

	Chord Phrasing Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Chord phrasing is art of taking a chord progression and turning it into a means of personal expression.
		Chord phrasing allows you total freedom during the performance of a song to do anything you can imagine with the song's chord structure.
		A chord composite is a diagram showing us all the instances of the notes of a particular chord on the fretboard.
	chordphrasing.com (347 words)

	Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Chords in Detail
		Thus, a small a after the chord name denotes a chord in root position (although this is usually omitted), a small b indicates that the chord is in first position, a small c that the chord is a second inversion, and so on.
		the German augmented 6th chord is derived from the raised subdominant, whereas the Swiss augmented 6th chord is derived from the raised supertonic chord.
		C suspended 4th triad where the third of the major triad is raised by a semi-tone (half-step).
	www.dolmetsch.com /musictheory17.htm (2483 words)

	Glossary of Music Terms for Hammered Dulcimer and Autoharp
		For example, the tones of the C major chord can be arranged into a root-position triad (C-E-G; the tone for which the chord is named is the lowest tone), first inversion (E-G-C; the third is the lowest tone), and second inversion: (G-C-E; the fifth is the lowest tone).
		38-41 of The Hammered Dulcimer A-Chording to Lucille Reilly).
		The suspended fourth chord (sus4) is root-4-5; Asus4 is spelled A-D-E. The suspended-second (sus2) is root-2-5; Gsus2 is spelled G-A-D. syncopation—often confused with the dotted rhythm.
	www.thedulcimerlady.com /glossary.htm (1567 words)

	Chords3 - music theory - plus 1000 Great Guitar Sites on the Web
		Chords are derived from numbering the scale degrees of the corresponding root.
		The notes of all chords (except suspended and 6th chords) are derived from choosing a tonic, and building the rest of the notes from the corresponding scale by skipping every other note of the scale.
		The power chord is used a lot by guitar players because the guitar's standard tuning and the distortion's effect upon the sound of the major third.
	www.guitarsite.com /chords3.htm (2049 words)

	Added tone chord - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A suspended chord is a chord in which the third is replaced or accompanied by either a fourth or a major second, although the fourth is far more common.
		This type of sound is borrowed from the contrapuntal technique of suspension, where a note from a previous chord is carried over to the next chord, and then resolved down to the third or tonic, suspending a note from the previous chord.
		Suspended chords are most commonly found in folk music and popular music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Added_tone_chord (295 words)

	Suspended Chords: Musical, no 3rd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Suspended chords are chords, no...they're a single note playing outside like a kid playing stickball in the street after all the other kids have resolved to going safely home to eat with they're mothers, these defiant notes linger outside, they'll come in soon.
		Think of suspended chords being in the tension family...but they're also in the resolution family.
		To really understand how to use suspended chords, and understand what's useable about them, we have to change our thinking a bit and get away from 'what chords' we're playing and look inside the chords and see what each of the notes are doing.
	www.stiffarmingsociety.com /writing/suspended_chords.htm (297 words)

	songweaver.com: The Cirlce of Fifths
		Chords are combinations of three or more musicial pitches.
		A minor chord, for example, is a major chord, with a flat third.
		Thus, your major seventh chord is C,E,G,B. For whatever reason, musical convention distinguishes between the major seventh chord and the basic seventh chord.
	songweaver.com /music/chords.html (347 words)

	Easy Music Theory Suspended Chords from the October 2002 Newsletter
		A suspended chord (or a chord suspension) is usually made by holding one of the tones of a chord a tone higher, then resolving it to its resting place.
		This can be done with any tones of a chord, but one of the more common suspensions is to manipulate the third of the chord, by first playing the fourth, then resolving it to the third.
		A C suspended chord of this type is often shown in chord charts as either a "Csus", or a "C sus4".
	www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca /suspended.html (402 words)

	Let us learn Music-- Part 7
		The last note of the major chord is raised by a ½ tone.
		Placements of these chords are quite tricky and we need be cautious in using them.
		You may use Suspended chords for transition from eminor to major to complete the progression It would be better if at least one note in the chord is found in the melody line.
	www.dhool.com /chords/articles/Srikanth/007/mt7.htm (847 words)

	Chord Variations and Complex Chords
		When the "third" of the chord is in the bass, it often sounds best to leave the "third" out in the right hand.
		There are a whole group of chords with wild names like nines, elevens, thirteens, nine sharp fives, nine flat fives, and the list goes on.
		Slash chords were introduced to keep track of bass notes when the bass is playing something other than the root.
	chordmaps.com /part4.htm (812 words)

	Guitar Lesson World: Lesson 19 - Suspended Chords
		The C major chord has the notes C, E, and G. The C minor chord has the notes C, D#, and G. Notice that the difference is in the third degree (2nd note shown).
		Also notice that D# is a half step below E that means that all you have to do to change a major chord to a minor chord is to lower the third degree a half step.
		suspended 4 chords are chords that have the fourth degree instead of the third degree.
	www.guitarlessonworld.com /lessons/lesson19.htm (282 words)

	Guitar Files™ Guitar Chord Reference Chart,Chord Theory
		C/D is a C chord with a D bass note (xx0010).
		A/B is an A chord with a B bass note (x22220).
		A suspended chord typically means that the 3rd of the chord has been replaced by the 4th (Xsus4) (or, less commonly, by the 2nd in which case it is called Xsus2).
	www.theguitarfiles.com /chordreference.php (210 words)

	Chord Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		While sample voicings for each chord are provided, the main purpose of these charts is to facilitate the guitarist's generation of his/her own desired voicings.
		Long-term efforts with this approach will eventually allow you to play any chord desired, for any genre of music, without further reference to these charts--AND you'll be able to place any tone of that chord in the bass and/or uppermost voice ("melody") at will--no small step in developing a professional style.
		Many chords with four or more tones can be thought of as two different chords combined, or "stacked": thus a M7 chord can also be considered a iii (minor) chord "stacked" atop a I (major) chord (e.g.: CM7= Em/C).
	www.usd.edu /~tgannon/chrd/chrdir.html (521 words)

	Suspended Chords... How Do You Build Them? - Black Belt Guitar Discussion Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Suspended chords are aptly named, because they actually give a "suspended" feeling.
		A pretty innovative player who uses suspended chords in unconventional ways is Alex Leifson, of Rush.
		James, remember that a suspended chord doesn´t have an added 2nd or 4th, actually the 2nd or 4th REPLACES the third of the chord that we´re suspending.
	www.blackbeltguitar.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=361 (623 words)

	Easy Music Theory Newsletter, November 2002
		So a C suspended chord has the tones of the root, the fourth and the fifth.
		Play the chord, then follow it with a standard C chord, of the root, the third, and the fifth.
		When you study music theory, you come to understand that an F major chord played at the same time as a D minor chord, is actually a D minor 7th chord.
	www.musictheory.halifax.ns.ca /newsletter_nov02.html (1521 words)

	chord name - StoneDragon's Guitar Discussion Forum
		Anyway, adding the 4 to a major chord makes it a sus chord (suspended), so it would be F#sus.
		Naming chords is not really an exact science, the conventions are a bit loose.
		The definition of a suspended chord is a chord without a third.
	www.zentao.com /ubb/Forum3/HTML/000314.html (189 words)

	Dansm's Guitar Chord Theory: Suspended Chords (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The "sus" in a sus2 or sus4 means suspended, a theory term for notes not fitting into the root-third-fifth chord structure.
		In major or minor chords, there are three different notes: the root, third, and fifth.
		Therefore, a D chord has D, F#, and A. In a sus4 chord, the third is replaced by the fourth, so the chord contains a root, fourth, and fifth.
	scenicnewengland.net /guitar/chords/susp.htm (332 words)

	WOMANROCK.com \| music resources \| practical theory: lesson 3, basic chords
		The simple answer is that a chord is any 2 or more notes played at the same time, so in essence the intervals we covered in Lesson 2, are the most simple chords (guitarists, think root / fifth power chords, Or, all those AC/DC songs you learned as a kid).
		I've also included the Suspended chord in this lesson, because of its prominence in modern pop music, and because it too is a 3 note chord.
		Well, its very simple, starting with the root (the letter name of the chord), you build the chord by stacking a 3rd and a 5th on top - the exception here is the suspended chord, which uses a 4th in place of the 3rd, giving it a "hanging" or "suspended" sound.
	www.womanrock.com /music_resources/practical_theory_0203.html (789 words)

	Building Chords
		This is the Chord Building Worksheet - This will help you see how the pattern used to build chords stays the same.
		We have our own version of 'suspended' chords which we call "Powered Extensions" - A power chord is the basic chord without the 3rd, the Powered Extensions are extended chords without the 3rd.
		Our "Powered Extension" term comes from the fact that the suspended chords seem to step on each other meaning that one "suspended" chord would use the same tones as another "suspended" chord which include the sus4 and sus2...
	www.guitarweek.com /chord-building/index.php (127 words)

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