Thanks, Don and guests.

Peter, I'm not sure that "implying" has a precise enough meaning for you to get a definitive answer.

Let's say you were doing a tune using Cotton Picking for Wimps - hitting the tonic note as a bass note on the first and third beats, for example. That single note would be implying the chord, I'd say.

For what it's worth, here's one of the earlier threads on the subject: Music nerds assemble! Implying... (but I suspect that you've already read it and found it unsatisfactory, Peter).

Marion