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What Is a Double Stop?

#41
Originally posted by CrawlingEye
hehe... It seems like he chooses intelligence over legibility.

Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if you were to either post the *normal* terms, and the *intricate* terms.
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Uh, yeah, I'm sorry you don't like my handwriting.

I put it in terms that were detailed enough to get my point across. Just takes a little knowledge of theory...very little.
 
#42
Originally posted by Pacman
Webster's is hardly the final authority on musical terms.....
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I vehemently disagree PINKY. Here's Webster's definition for bass:

1. (n) Canoe paddle.
2. (n) Fish.
3. (n) 4-stringed musical instrument of extreme ease to learn and master. Often played by "musicians" without enough talent to play a 6-stringed guitar. Much easier to play than guitar, usually consisting of roots and fifths.
4. See "Fieldy."

You see, they can't be wrong.
 
#45
Originally posted by Pacman


Webster's is hardly the final authority on musical terms.....
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Webster's is the final authority of all terms, musical or not. Show me something they've been wrong about.
Okay... How about "The Enjoyment of Music" eighth edition, a college textbook.
Chord - "Simultaneous combination of three or more tones that constitute a single block of harmony".
Double-stop - "Playing two notes simultaneously on a string instrument".
Now you show me anywhere it says that a chord can be two notes. I don't think you can do it.
You say you've been playing a long time, well I've been playing a long time too; longer than you. Think about it... play a C and a G, what chord is that? major, minor, diminished, sus2, etc. Is it none of these, or all of these?
When you use the term "two note chord" you are spreading misinformation.
 
#53
Originally posted by Turock

Do both notes have to be played on the same bass?

Double-stop... Yes
Chord... No
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You just contradicted yourself. In many texts, including the one I used in school, the term "diad" is defined as a two note chord. Now, if it can be a definition, it must exist.
 
#55
Interestingly, Virgina Tech's Mulitmedia Music glossary defines chord as I learned it:

"The sounding of two or more notes (usually at least three) simultaneously. The two most common chords are the major and minor chords. A major chord is composed of a major third above the tonic note, and a perfect fifth above the tonic, a minor chord is composed of a minor third and a perfect fifth. "

the entire glossary can be found here:
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#57
I stutied harmony at the university, and our teacher told us:
you need 3 tones to make a chord, 2 tones are an "intervalle" sorry I don't know the english word. I think it's interval though.
That was only one guy opinion but I repect his opinion very much.

But you can also have a chord with only one note.
If you play a C on the piano, is it minor or major?
 
#58
Originally posted by Turock
So, what are these two note chords? Name one and I will show you why it isn't a chord.
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Ok, G and D

I can analyze that in a few different ways. I could be G (no 3rd), perhaps Dsus (no 5th). The point is not what they're called, it is that they exist.
 
#59
Originally posted by Pacman


Ok, G and D

I can analyze that in a few different ways. I could be G (no 3rd), perhaps Dsus (no 5th). The point is not what they're called, it is that they exist.
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Yeah, and why don't you see if you can buy $10 worth of stuff with a dollar because it could be a ten with no zero.
If you don't have the 3rd or 5th for those "chords" then you don't really have those "chords" now do you. You know the answer.
I give up, believe whatever you like.
 

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