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Really good stuff! If I can give another suggestion: I think it would be much more useful for beginners to see the common alias of the chord in the main table
by moefh 4y ago
Really good stuff!
If I can give another suggestion: I think it would be much more useful for beginners to see the common alias of the chord in the main table (maybe below the name that already exists?).
(This is wrong, see the reply below:) For example, a beginner may see "G7" in the wild and not know it's a G minor 7 (and not a G major 7). They'd have to click the chords and search the alias list. If "G7" was written below "G minor 7", it would make things much easier.
Also, I think it would look better if the names in the main table were a bit more consistent. For exmaple, you have "G major ninth" but "Gmaj13". I think it would be better to have them as "Gmaj9"/"Gmaj13" or "G major ninth"/"G major thirteenth".
- moosedev 4y agoNit: G7 denotes a G dominant 7 (i.e. natural 3rd, flat 7th), not a G minor 7. G minor 7 (flat 3rd, flat 7th) is abbreviated Gm7 or G-7. (In my experience, the "Gm7" form is common in "official" printed guitar & piano songbooks, while G-7 is common in jazz lead sheets and fakebooks.)
- moefh 4y agoRight, total brain fart on my part! (And I actually had never seen the "G-7" notation) Still, I think it would be much more useful to consistently have the chord abbreviations in the main table.
- moosedev 4y agoI still stumble over the "-7" version sometimes. I grew up on "Gm7" :) Example from Google image search: https://www.musikalessons.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/lead-sheet.png https://www.musikalessons.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/0... . At least this one uses maj7 for major 7, rather than M7 or △7 :)