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Offline SirTJ

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Do You...
« on: August 27, 2009, 10:00:32 AM »
Memorize chords you learn, or do you have a method of recalling them? Say for instance you're taught a new chord...do you simply memorize it or is do you have a way that helps you recall it (like the picture system?).

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Re: Do You...
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2009, 02:19:47 PM »
I hear them in my head, and see them notated in my mind. I'm weird that way. What chords are called sometimes I have to figure out later; many Jazz chords are ambivalent, can be spelled several different ways...

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Re: Do You...
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2009, 03:03:40 PM »
I have to memorize the chords at first.

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Re: Do You...
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2009, 05:34:26 PM »
I have to memorize the chords at first.
Me 2. But the more I practice, the less I have to think...it just flows.
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Re: Do You...
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2009, 05:51:02 PM »
Me 2. But the more I practice, the less I have to think...it just flows.

Thats kinda how I am for chords. But for easy songs, I dont bother learning the chords or memorizing them.

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Re: Do You...
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2009, 09:31:25 PM »
Memorize chords you learn, or do you have a method of recalling them? Say for instance you're taught a new chord...do you simply memorize it or is do you have a way that helps you recall it (like the picture system?).

The way I memorize something is by practicing it until it becomes a part of me, er my playing, LOL. Once it becomes a part of you, u don't have to go through the "bringing it back to memory" process that normally takes place, because it's a part of you already.

So, I don't necesarrily memorize the chord, I moreso memorize the context/movement in which I used the chord. For example, it's much easier IMO to remember a dom7.#5/#9 chord as the 3 of a 7-3-6 progression than by itself.
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Re: Do You...
« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2009, 10:07:09 PM »
I remember the hands separately, but I look at the chord as one, if that makes any sense.

I remember the right hand chord in relation to the left, for example, dom7 a whole step up, or minor a whole step up. I stack chords most of the time, so my left hand plays a diatonic 7th and the right hand will play some chord with the melody at the top, usually a normal major or minor chord.

I also use T-Block's method.

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Re: Do You...
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2009, 04:31:38 AM »
I memorize. Its a guitar thing. I am so used to memorizing chord shapes that i do it on keys also. It is probably very bad cuz it kind of limits the voicings i can play and i am trying to break out of it.

 
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Re: Do You...
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2009, 11:08:51 AM »
I remember the hands separately, but I look at the chord as one, if that makes any sense.

I remember the right hand chord in relation to the left, for example, dom7 a whole step up, or minor a whole step up. I stack chords most of the time, so my left hand plays a diatonic 7th and the right hand will play some chord with the melody at the top, usually a normal major or minor chord.

I also use T-Block's method.
I use yours and T's method as well.
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Re: Do You...
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2009, 01:26:08 PM »
I have to memorize the chords at first.

Me too, but after doing it enough, you just know.
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Re: Do You...
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2009, 02:04:19 PM »
For me its about where the chord I learned was placed in a song. Then I commit to memory for later use.
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Re: Do You...
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2009, 03:04:30 PM »
Memorize chords you learn, or do you have a method of recalling them? Say for instance you're taught a new chord...do you simply memorize it or is do you have a way that helps you recall it (like the picture system?).


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Re: Do You...
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2009, 03:22:50 PM »
The only 2 chords I know by shape are the fully diminished (dim.7) chord and the dom.7(#5/#9) chord.
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Re: Do You...
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2009, 03:23:46 PM »
I take that back, I know a 3rd chord by shape, the min.7b5 chord in 3rd inversion.
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Re: Do You...
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2009, 02:48:05 AM »
I take that back, I know a 3rd chord by shape, the min.7b5 chord in 3rd inversion.

I'm sure you know more than that.

1. Major - All inversions
2. Minor - All inversions
3. Diminished
4. Augmented - All inversions
5. Suspended - All inversions
6. Maj7 - All inversions
7. Min7 - All inversions
8. Dom7 - All inversions
9. Dim7
10. Maj9
11. Min7b5 - 2nd inversion
12. sus7b5 - 2nd inversion
13. Dom13
14. sus13


Those are some of the ones I know.

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Re: Do You...
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2009, 05:51:20 AM »
I know them but i dont when to use them.pls help me GOD BLESS
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Re: Do You...
« Reply #16 on: August 30, 2009, 06:40:15 AM »
I'm sure you know more than that.

What I meant was that if I can't remember the notes of the chord right off, I can play the shape of the chord and know that it's a ___ chord. Those chords up posted I can play automatically.
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Re: Do You...
« Reply #17 on: August 30, 2009, 08:49:51 AM »
What I meant was that if I can't remember the notes of the chord right off, I can play the shape of the chord and know that it's a ___ chord. Those chords up posted I can play automatically.

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