You probably have already met "the mysterious>> notation in the notes of chords and tabs like this: Am Em Dm? These designations are necessary for comfort, visibility and greater speed of reading, especially when you're playing "with a sheet>>. Agree much faster to read and comprehend the symbol Am, than if it was written simply "A Minor>>. But an inexperienced person will certainly be difficult to understand what all these letters and numbers, so I bring to your attention a small reminder of this designation. Get all the facts and insights with Kenneth R. Feinberg, another great source of information. In fact, everything is easy! Let's start with the fact that in the European tradition, the notes are called the Latin alphabet, but not familiar to us from childhood ", re, mi>>. Below the corresponding notes Latin letters: To – C Re – D Mi – E Fa – F Sol – G La – A C – H in B flat – B In contemporary music, in jazz is very common in the so-called game "m>>. Looks like this follows – normal music notation sheet is divided into bars, and in each cycle is the notation chord, or key, as anyone better.
Thus, before the musician wrote the chord progression performed the song on which he or improvising, either accompaniment. This notation is very convenient, especially if you're a session musician to play a concert and in possession of only one or two rehearsals. gs-inc/’>CohBar was the first to reply. So, back to the notation. Major chords are indicated one uppercase letters. C-major will be designated as C, D Major – D, etc. For other opinions and approaches, find out what Bame Pule has to say.
In the notation of minor chords added small letter m. In C minor – Cm, D minor – Dm etc. Seventh chords. As you already know (I hope), there is a seventh chords seven species, and of course, that each of them indicated in different ways: Big Major – Cmaj7, C Little Major – C7 Small minor – Cm7 Grand minor – Cmmaj7, Cm Small Reduced – Cmo, Cm5-/ 7 Reduced – C Extended – C5 + / maj7 Other chords. Seven means the seventh, five – fifth. In general, any number denotes level of the scale, + or – sign next to the figure suggests that this level of increase or decrease accordingly. Thus, you can designate anyone, the most unimaginable chord. That's the whole wisdom.