Q. If it helps, it's an electric, Fender stratocaster with pretty low action.
@Jos h2o - THANK. YOU. Seriously, I really needed this. X)
A. I can show you a few ways. One would be like this:
E-2
A-4
D-4
G-2
B-2
e-2
(if you don't like to barre chords, play the high e and the B strings with your index finger and skip the low E--it's easier... Or just skip the high e string as well http://josh2o.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/f-minor-e-shape.jpg ).
Also, you can play it like this:
E-x
A-x
D-4
G-6
B-7
e-5
It's like playing a Dm, but moved up four frets( http://josh2o.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/f-minor-d-shape.jpg ).
By far, the easiest way, but it only has one voicing of each note and is an inversion, is this:
E-x
A-x
D-x
G-2
B-2
e-2
( http://josh2o.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/f-minor-first-inversion.jpg )
EDIT: I added links to pictures kind of showing you the easiest way of holding these shapes... Easiest in my opinion.
Also, and I'm sure you know this since you play classical music on a piano, but the inversion has the same notes as the whole minor chord(F# A C#), but it's rearranged so the third degree is where the root usually is(A F# C#).
Just FYI.
Before i asked a question on double flats and sharps, why not just write what your supposed to play ?
Q. With the double sharps and flats, I ask myself WHY?!? Instead of writting G double sharp why not just natural A? Triple and quadruple sharps and flats? People PLEASE!! I know it concerns music theory and all, but can annyone shed a bit of light on this subject? In plainest terms please!
A. The section after this first one is about triple sharps and flats. I figured that I might as well answer the main question in simple terms since I posted in here.
If you don't use double sharps or double flats, then music gets even more confusing than you think. Sure, some of us understand what you are getting at with this question. You want an enharmonically equivalent note that is simpler to read.... but this makes no sense at all if you are looking at chords (string music, piano music, etc.). Your "easy to read" notes make chords look completely dissonant when, in fact, they are pleasant chords.
The Doctor's example is good here. If we were to cater to you and spell the Gb minor chord as Gb, A, and Db, then it would look like like a sus2 chord - a chord with a dissonant second (in purer Classical music this dissonance is arrived at via non-harmonic tones - in this case the appogiatura or retardation would be appropriate). The performer would not immediately recognize such a chord spelling, and would assume that the composer had meant for some strange dissonance; however, the chord is simply a Gb minor triad. Nothing more, and nothing less. If you think about this example, you might understand why double sharps and flats are absolutely necessary when it comes to stacking chords. They are also necessary in voice leading (the creation of individual musical lines and parts).
I decided to show you this example (so I wrote it out in Finale for you):
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1655/finout.jpg
edit: The fact that the above example can resolve to some other chord does not make it any less awkward.
Let's also assume that Gb minor is the vi chord and that I doubled the third because it was necessary =). I wrote it in bass and treble clef just in case the poster can only read one or the other.
Others have already elaborated on why you need double sharps or flats for voice leading purposes.
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The reason that you don't see triple sharp or triple flat more often is because they are only needed when you have a key signature full of sharps or flats.
It makes theoretical sense. If you have C# major as your key and you build an augmented chord on the Leading Tone (B#+), then the best theoretically correct way to spell it is B#, Dx, and F#x (F triple sharp).
This is the only example I can think of, so that is probably why it is not generally taught or accepted. That is why they are only used in modern repertoire on rare occasions. But - nonetheless - I have SEEN them in real music. Therefore, they surely exist. Triple sharps have been published in music, therefore they exist.
You can deny it and say they don't exist because they only have 1 or 2 uses. That is fine. I don't mind.
what are the piano notes that make up the Eadd2 chord and also the Badd2 chord?
Q. please don't comment if you don't know about piano chords?
A. E major: E, G-sharp, B / minor E, G, B.
B major: B, D-sharp, F-sharp / minor B, D, F-sharp
add2 has nothing to do with classical theory or parlance. Sounds like you add the second scale degree within the key (major or minor) for the E chord, an F-sharp / the B chord, C-sharp.
You should be aware you are learning a limited theoretical terminology for one instrument or genre which is not universal to all musicians.
[ It is you, of course, who doesn't know about piano chords; that's why you're asking.... Just sayin'. ]
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