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Thread #109020   Message #2277946
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
03-Mar-08 - 12:15 AM
Thread Name: What's this chord?
Subject: RE: What's this chord?
"if there's a website where you could just type in the data that Scorpio gave and which then gives back the name of the chord?"

The problem with that - what seems like a 'simple idea' - is that any 3 notes at random can be

1) in the root position, in the 1st inversion, or in the second inversion of the 3 notes forming that 'chord'...

2) well funnily enough you need then to pick a 'root note', and since it can be any one of the 3... you can theoretically have 3 possible root notes, and thus it could be any one of 3 'basic chords, of which EACH could be inverted.

3) the 'gadget' would have to make many assumptions - about which you probably would not be told - so it could decide - on the basis of probability, which would be the 'most common' chords...

The less technical information you know, the more dangerous you can be... :-)

"Education is what separates us from the beasts, and the failure of Human Society to fully utilise it will return us there."

:-)