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I've noticed that chords with wide intervals sound good, no matter what notes you use. Of course, "good" is purely subjective...but I have noticed that.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@... wrote:
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> did you guys know that if you put your fingers on the keys and kinda do,
> like, every other key and sometimes a black one here and there you get a
> better sound than when you push down a bunch that are right next to each other
> all at once?
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> In a message dated 4/25/2013 9:53:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> markpringnz@... writes:
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> Simple chord theory isn't difficult, and for popular music at least you
> don't need to know much, you could probably harmonize most popular music with
> 2 or 3 chords, 4 if you want to sound sophisticated! There are loads of
> tutorials available on the net.
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> My limited knowledge came from "The Pocket book of piano chords for
> dummies" which covers nearly every chord you could think of and "Music
> Composition for Dummies."
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> Once you get used to the various chord shapes on the keyboard you can
> improvise without thinking about what chords you are actually playing. I'm a
> bit like Fritz I often don't know what chord I am playing but probably for
> different reasons! However it does help to know what key you are in but even
> that is not essential.
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> There are rules but they are made to be broken. J S Bach did absolutely
> astonishing things with harmony which should sound dreadful, and admittedly do
> when I play them, but in the hands of a good player they sound wonderful.
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> Mark
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> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:42 AM, R l <_bluesrock77@..._
> (mailto:bluesrock77@...) > wrote:
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> Chord construction...it sounds good for a non-musician like me...could you
> please ellaborate?
> tks
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> From: _tomdcour@..._ (mailto:tomdcour@...)
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:04:29 +0000
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Dying Day.
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> My daughters piano teacher recently gave me a "refresher" course on chord
> construction- very interesting really, think I wrote like 15 songs right
> after!!
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> From: Tony Moffett <_atm655@..._ (mailto:atm655@...) >
> Reply-To: "_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) " <_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
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> Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:56 AM
> To: "_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) " <_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) >
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Dying Day.
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> Bernie I think it's holding down more than one key at a time.
> Some arbitrary names were assigned to them by folks in the "way back
> times".
> It's my guess, I could be wrong.
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> Tony
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> On Apr 25, 2013, at 6:43 AM, "tron400" <_tron400@..._
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> What are these "chords" you speak of?
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> Bernie
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> --- In _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) , fdoddy@ wrote:
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> > I never know the chords I play
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> > fritz
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark <markpringnz@>
> > To: newmellotrongroup <_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) >
> > Sent: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 3:21 pm
> > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] The Dying Day.
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> > Thanks. This is a bit embarrassing, I am not certain of the chords as it
> was a live improvisation. I think it started in e minor and it's mainly a
> mixture of descending 5ths and 4ths, it wanders around in F for a bit then
> ends in C. The sound is a mixture of the Mark II violins from Redtron and
> the tremolo strings preset from the Synth 1 VST. I recorded it using Reaper
> and added some extra reverb in Audacity.
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> > Mark
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> > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 12:09 AM, R l <bluesrock77@> wrote:
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> > Very sweet. The opening chord and sound reminds me of In the wake of
> Poseidon...what are they?
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> > To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)
> > From: marabus@
> > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:57:01 -0400
> > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] The Dying Day.
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> > Nice mellow piece
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> > Pete
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> > On 4/24/13 4:56 AM, Mark wrote:
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> > For Anzac Day
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> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuloWbKMapo
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> > Mark
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