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Originally Posted by cherko
Thanks for your post. I'm sure all you wrote was educational, somehow, but I don't know anything about music theory and I don't know what all those musical terms mean; sharp, dimnished, augmented, etc.
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Okay, here's a breakdown.
natural - all the white keys are natural notes. Also, all the notes on a guitar (or pretty much any instrument) correspond to one key on a piano, but where the notes are located on a guitar depends upon your tuning, whereas on a piano, they're always in the same place unless something's wrong with it.
# - sharp, ## - double sharp, A - augmented - a higher note is a sharper note. # indicates that it's one note above a natural note, while ## indicates that it is two notes higher, but this notation is not common. Augmented means that at least one note in a chord is played sharper than usual.
chord - more than one note is played at the same time.
b - flat, bb - double flat, d - diminished - the opposite of sharp.
m - minor a common type of chord or scale notation.
M - major - the other common type of chord and scale notation on which all Western theory is based.
P - perfect - the fourth and fifth scale degrees of a major and minor scale are the same. Since they represent both major and minor intervals, we say they're perfect.
Let me know if you have any other questions
