Played in an ensemble / orchestra, such notes are frequently used to provide a counterpoint or counter-melody, in a harmonic context either to outline or juxtapose the progression of the chords, or with percussion to underline the rhythm.

For some characters one or two prefix chords are required.

With each of the three fingers limited to its own row, 229 chords are possible with 3 fingers.

85 % of average keystrokes in English text can be typed without chording, and chords are limited to 2 fingers.

Claimed advantages of the IN10DID method are the diversity of devices, limited motion and simple chords.

The diameters are the longest chords of the circle.

The midpoints of a set of parallel chords of an ellipse are collinear.

Examples of this are the use of minor 9th tonic chords or the use of the open 1st string as a kind of pedal tone.

Many other scales, both diatonic and synthetic, can be obtained by adjusting the pedals differently from each other ; also, many chords in traditional harmony can be obtained by adjusting pedals so that some notes are enharmonic equivalents of others, and this is central to harp technique.

Many house mixes also include repeating, short, syncopated, staccato chord-loops that are usually composed of 5-7 chords in a 4-beat measure.

There are also other chord harmonicas, such as the Chordomonica ( which operates similar to a chromatic harmonica ), and the junior chord harmonicas ( which typically provides 6 chords ).

The chords are typically derived from the 7th tone of its corresponding scale ( see Seventh chord ) and can consist of ii-V-i progressions or improvisational comping.

Epstein had already imagined that " through the transposition of natural sounds, it becomes possible to create chords and dissonances, melodies and symphonies of noise, which are a new and specifically cinematographic music " ( Battier 2007, 191 ).

In rock and popular music, the major system is, " a chromatic system involving variable qualities ( major and minor ) of several chords whose roots are built on the notes of the Mixolydian scale.

Though, " traditional functions do not apply ," such as the, " brief forays into another key ," implied by secondary dominants, the, " traditional ," ' five-of ' ( V / x ) names are often used by musicians without formal training and are useful to, " distinguish them from the ... chords of the chromatic-minor system.

" For example, in C minor one finds E major ( III, rather than V / VI ) while in C major one finds E major ( V / vi, rather than III ), both of which are chromatic chords.

The cascading, passing chords created by the interplay between multiple voices, and the absence of a strong or obvious beat, are the features that distinguish medieval and renaissance motet styles.

Most punk rock songs are short, have simple and somewhat basic arrangements using relatively few chords, and they use lyrics that express punk values and ideologies ranging from the nihilism of the Sex Pistols ' " No Future " to the anti-vice message of Minor Threat's " Straight Edge ".

Several fretting schemes involve frets that are spaced unevenly to produce " better-sounding " chords in a limited number of keys.

In popular and jazz harmony, chords are named by their root plus various terms and characters indicating their qualities.

In many types of music, notably baroque, romantic, modern and jazz, chords are often augmented with " tensions ".

Once the series of chords is selected, additional lines are added to embellish, adding depth to the music.

He was fond of chords of the ninth and eleventh, and his characteristic harmonies are largely the result of a fondness for unresolved appoggiaturas, such as in the Valses nobles et sentimentales.

Also his contribution to mathematics should be noted ; in 1658, he found the length of an arc of the cycloid using an exhaustion proof based on dissections to reduce the problem to summing segments of chords of a circle which are in geometric progression.

As a result, Western music students trained in historical musicology may listen to a funk or Latin song that is very rhythmically complex, but then dismiss it as a low-level musical work because it has a very simple melody and only uses two or five chords.

" She uses three chords, one major, one minor, and one whose third is exactly half way between (" this triad possesses architectural significance, but also a symbolic meaning ") being used at importance cadence points also determined by the five open strings of the higher orchestra section.

By the 1930s, the guitar began to displace the banjo as the primary chordal rhythm instrument in jazz music, because the guitar could be used to voice chords of greater harmonic complexity, and it had a somewhat more muted tone that blended well with the upright bass, which, by this time, had almost completely replaced the tuba as the dominant bass instrument in jazz music.

America sees the absurdities -- she sees the kingdoms of Europe, disturbed by wrangling sectaries, or their commerce, population and improvements of every kind cramped and retarded, because the human mind like the body is fettered ' and bound fast by the chords of policy and superstition ': She laughs at their folly and shuns their errors: She founds her empire upon the idea of universal toleration: She admits all religions into her bosom ; She secures the sacred rights of every individual ; and ( astonishing absurdity to Europeans!

This holds because the diagonals are perpendicular chords of a circle.

The most frequently encountered chords are triads, so called because they consist of three distinct notes: further notes may be added to give seventh chords, extended chords, or added tone chords.

Bebop " polarized listers, critics and musicians alike " because it differed from swing in many important ways, including a lack of typical riffs and danceable beats, the use of melodic progression and the chords as the basis for all soloing and improvising.

This is the more meaningful usage because the directions of zero-lift are pertinent to longitudinal trim and stability while the directions of the root chords are not.

In addition, Howe listened to classical guitar and jazz, citing Barney Kessel as a primary influence, " his playing was a remarkable mixture of ' single line ' and ' chords ', ya know, which inspired me to believe that any guitarist who doesn't understand chords won't be able to play much in the single line because they relate so much ".

The Russian version of the seven-string guitar has been used by professionals, because of its great flexibility and its sound, but has also been popular with amateurs for accompaniment ( especially Russian bards ) due to the relative simplicity of some basic chords and the ease of playing alternating bass lines.

He gave up acting because of an infection of his vocal chords in 1887, moved to the provinces and took up painting without success.

# Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows an example of how chords may be perceived or abstracted from an unaccompanied melody.

# Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows an example of power chords.

* It is possible to play chords without any arpeggiation, because up to 4 strings can be plucked simultaneously.

Hohner's Chord is known as the Hohner 48, because it plays 48 chords.

' And it really was easy for them, because there are not many chords, but for me it's like a novel.

This is because by playing the C harmonica in G, or A harmonica in E, the dominant or seventh chord is produced in place of the tonic chord, and in the blues, all chords are typically played as dominant ( seventh or ninth ) chords.

The Russian version of the seven-string guitar has been used by professionals because of its great flexibility, but has also been popular with amateurs for accompaniment ( especially Russian bards ) due to the relative simplicity of some basic chords and the ease of playing alternating bass lines.

The Japanese National Railways used a chime whistle that sounds like a very deep single-note plain whistle, because the chords where just accessed in a simple parallel circuit if the whistle trigger is pulled down.