[LAU] Chord finder

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 06:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On 3 July 2012 19:05, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-
> > > For "musicians" with an academical background it's very important,
> > for
> > > people who are simply musicians this kind of theory is completely
> > > unimportant.
> > 
> > thanks for speaking on behalf of all of us ralf. or perhaps on the
> > other hand, we're grown up enough to decide for ourselves?
> > 
> > -- 
> > robin
> > 
> > http://fu.ac.nz - Auckland's Free University
> 
> I'm not anti academies.
> All I wanted to say is: "Don't care too much about how chords are named
> and why they are named, the way they are named. Just take care that the
> emotion that should be transported by your music, is transported by your
> music."
> 
> IIRC another reply was regarding to "it's better to know how to name
> chords, than to say 'put one finger to that fret and another finger to
> this fret'" Full ACK, but in the beginning nobody is able to know that
> and after a while everybody is able to know what to do, we neither need
> to name a chord, nor to say where to put the fingers. Just for the
> record, to know a chord's name doesn't protect to say "put one finger
> here and another finger there", there are 3 inversions, for three notes
> and for string instruments such as a guitar, we have additional
> extensions, such as two strings should or shouldn't play the same note.
> One and the same named chord could cause different emotions.
> 
> Is it an advantage to be able to see on which key, which fret a finger
> should be? For beginners it usually is, but after a while nobody does
> visually control where the fingers should be. IMO for musical theory
> it's similar. Btw. IMO music is similar to sex and far away from
> astrophysics. Academical rules for astrophysics are good, but I suspect
> nobody is using books to get knowledge how to have sex.
> 
> Does anybody seriously studies tantra?

PS: Sorry, "Maithuna", since all is one, but we need to differ some
bullshit, as soon as we're searching for a finish speaking. So all isn't
one?!.

> ;)
> 
> Just 2 Cents, since the topic already is solved.