Outside of standard notation/tabs, is there a naming system for conveying the middle bits of the chord that one might want to specify?
These are not necessarily inversions, because the root stays in the bass. But maybe the fifth is played second, then the third up an octave. Or even the seventh is played as the second highest note, then the third?
Look, my stupid questions often require simple answers. So sorry in advance.
I like to harmonize my guitar parts in thirds but sometimes I like to play those harmonies lower than the original melody. I just want to know the official way to convey what harmony I’m describing. I feel it’s implicit when I say “this harmony is in thirds” that it’s just a diatonic third above the melody note. But I could even be wrong about that.
So for a lower harmony with the same notes would I say “the harmony is DOWN a sixth”? I know that the intervals are just inversions and maybe I’m just used to harmonizing the scale by going UP from the root.
Maybe I’m totally wrong in that saying a harmony in thirds is at all implying the harmony is UP a third and I should indicate pitch every time I try to describe a harmony part.
Idk I just want to be more clear when trying to describe this stuff.
I’ve always liked these chord progressions that sound great when you just play them over and over. They kind of meander from one key to the next and back again, for my ears anyway. Often good as a bridge or an outro. I have an example I’ve been jamming on and would like to know if there are any nuances I might not know about.
And sorry for my notation. Idk really how to do this over text but here it goes:
{Am - - -}
{Am - - -}
{E - - -}
{E - C9 -}
{F - - -}
{F - - -}
{Gm - - -}
{Bb - - Bbadd9}
Then it repeats.
Obviously the E major can be borrowed from A major or harmonic minor. And the C9 is a clear V of VI that resolves to F. But it seems we spend a little time in F major given the Gm chord. Bb could be a tritone sub of E and certainly adding the 9th back in (C) leads us back to Am.
I’m just trying to learn more and be more descriptive with my theory vocabulary. Any insight would be appreciated.
Been scratching my head at this for a while, but basically what the title says. How would I communicate what direction something spins in without necessitating which part of the object is “top or bottom”?
Like if you have a fan blowing towards you, the blades are spinning clockwise but the motor that’s powering said blades is spinning counter clockwise. Same thing with tightening a screw, you turn it clockwise but the material it’s being buried in “sees” a screw spinning counterclockwise.
I first thought of celestial bodies and immediately thought of distinguishing between magnetic poles to differentiate the orientation said body should be viewed from, but not all of them have a magnetic field.
And I remember some right handed rule from physics to determine torque; but doesn’t that still rely on some decided perspective of the force applied?
I’ve heard of neutrinos being the rule because they spin the same way based on the direction they’re traveling but I’m having a hard time understanding how that can be applied if I were to, say, communicate to a being in another galaxy which direction something is spinning.
Sorry for the long post.