On Jun 20, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jun 20, 2008, at 1:56 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Oh, c'mon! They are not the same!
C4 means no 5th, while C sus4 means it contains 5th.
Not in my neck of the woods!
All the more reason to use a more universal symbol.
Fair enough, but not an easy task, going back to the left/right coast
sentiment.
To that end, how about C(4)?
Most of my shorthand with chord symbols comes from my hand copying
days in the early 80s, way before computers and music notation
programs. Old habits die hard. sus4, add9, etc. I was doing a
sh*tload of those kind of charts then and hated writing out all that
chord verbage. I started writing C(9) instead of Cadd9 and it not
only appeased my basic sense of impatience, the musicians I worked
with instantly gravitated towards it, read it without any hesitation
whatsoever, and the game was on. C5 was very common and the idea
came from a guitar player when we were rehearsing. So C4 for me was a
natural gravitation.
But, you can't please everyone.
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J D Thomas
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West Linn OR
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