Hi,

Scorpio: If you want a minor 7th in that long A (002225), you could make it 002025 (but you need bigger hands than me to play that).

Peace: I think that's called "odd".

The triad built from a 1st, 3rd and 5th is called a "common chord", but that's not because only triads are chords. Dyads and tryads are all chords. And don't mix things up, or you'll make Sue Allan's dryads angry.

Don: In the tuning all of us are used to, 1st, 4th, 5th and 8th all are quite harmonical. But the 3rds aren't quite right. We can hear them being somewhat out of key as we play them too high (major) or too low (minor), and this is what gives the chord its character. But if you were to double the 3rd, you'd stress that it's out of key, often not a good thing to do.

McGrath: I once told a non-folky friend of mine that he really ought to try visiting a session. He did, but he told me afterwards it was the weirdest thing he had ever been to. Someone would shout out a number, and sometimes a few others would shout the same number, and then the rest applauded. This went on without pause for half an hour, so he asked one of them what was going on. "Well", the guy told him, "We've had the same group of musicians for so long, that everyone of us can now play every piece of music we ever brought to the session. So, instead of playing the pieces, we've numbered them, and the player just calls what he would play. A few of us may join in, and then we applaud the performance. We now can fit in many more pieces into one evening." So my friend asked: "Can I try that?" "Sure", said the guy, "Go ahead." And my friend called "42". He was greeted with massive round of silence. So he asked the man: "Why aren't they applauding like for the others?" "You know, that's the thing about folk music", the man replied: "You have to know how to play it."

First one to tell me what chord this is: 000000; was quicker than the rest. Better still if you can tell me a song that starts that way.

BFN
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