Chord symboles

JazZ-A-LoT · #1 01-12-2003, 11:28 PM

Hi I'm just trying to write a walking line for this song and one of the chords is an Fb with a triangle beside it. I was wondering if you guys could tell me what the triangle meant?? I should know these things.

**Chris Fitzgerald** · #2 01-13-2003, 12:19 AM

Fb is the enharmonic equivalent of E, and a triangle in jazz nomenclature designates a Major 7 chord. So for all practical purposes, treat that chord as EMa7.

JazZ-A-LoT · #3 01-13-2003, 01:16 AM

Thx man... You saved me from wut could have been a bass line gone wrong.

moley · #4 01-13-2003, 07:41 AM

I tend to wonder why the tune has an Fb chord in it. And what tune is it anyway?

Bruce Lindfield · #5 01-13-2003, 09:10 AM

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Originally posted by moley
I tend to wonder why the tune has an Fb chord in it. And what tune is it anyway?

Maybe it's a part that's been printed out from some software like Sibelius and the user hasn't been entirely familiar with this package!!

I have had stuff like this from the "arrangers" in our band - plus parts with loads of leger lines below the staff for normal bass parts!!

I suppose the other possibility is that the original poster has seen something like Fmajor7 (Flat or b 5) and assumed that it is the F that is flattened rather than the 5th?

moley · #6 01-13-2003, 09:15 AM

Or maybe it's a bad photocopy, and it's actually Ebmaj7 but one of the lines hasn't come out?

Either that or maybe it's a chart for Rite Of Spring

As I recall Rite Of Spring has an Fb major chord. It's the bit with the repeated 8th note chords - the chord is actually Fb major and Eb7 superimposed.

Bruce Lindfield · #7 01-13-2003, 09:21 AM

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Originally posted by moley

Either that or maybe it's a chart for Rite Of Spring As I recall Rite Of Spring has an Fb major chord. It's the bit with the repeated 8th note chords - the chord is actually Fb major and Eb7 superimposed.

Well I have the score for "The Rite of Spring" and you won't be surprised to learn that there are no chord symbols above the staves!!

moley · #8 01-13-2003, 09:43 AM

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Originally posted by Bruce Lindfield

Well I have the score for "The Rite of Spring" and you won't be surprised to learn that there are no chord symbols above the staves!!

LOL! Well there's a surprise!

JazZ-A-LoT · #9 01-18-2003, 08:42 PM

Lol my friend just wrote it out really fast.