Q.
A. Chorus 1: (x2)
Am7 Dm7 G7 Csus4
I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world
Am7 Dm7 G7Sus4 G7
life is plastic, it's fantastic
Am7 Dm7 G7 Csus4
you can brush my hair, undress me anywhere
Am7 Dm7 G7Sus4 G7
imagination, life is you creation
Verse 1:
Am7 Dm7
I'm a blond bimbo-girl in a fantasy world
G7 Csus4
dress me up make it tight I'm your dolly
Am7 Dm7
you're my doll rock and roll feel the glamour in pink
G7 Csus4
kiss me here touch me there hanky-panky
Bridge:
Am7 Dm7 G7
you can touch, you can play
Am7 Dm7 G7
if you say I'm always yours
Chorus 1:
Am7 Dm7 G7 Csus4
I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world
Am7 Dm7 G7Sus4 G7
life is plastic, it's fantastic
Am7 Dm7 G7 Csus4
you can brush my hair, undress me anywhere
Am7 Dm7 G7Sus4 G7
imagination, life is you creation
Chorus 2: (x2)
F G
Come on barbie let's go party
Em Am7
ah, ah, ah, yeah
F G
Come on barbie let's go party
Em Am7
oooh oh oooh, oooh oh oooh
Verse 2:
Am7 Dm7
Make me walk make me talk, do whatever you please
G7 Csus4
I can act like a star, I can beg on my knees
Am7 Dm7
come jump in, bimbo friend let us do it again
G7 Csus4
hit the town, fool around, let's go party.
Bridge: (x2)
Am7 Dm7 G7
you can touch, you can play
Am7 Dm7 G7
if you say I'm always yours
Chorus 2: (x2)
F G
Come on barbie let's go party
Em Am7
ah, ah, ah, yeah
F G
Come on barbie let's go party
Em Am7
oooh oh oooh, oooh oh oooh
Chorus 1: (x2)
I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world
life is plastic, it's fantastic
you can brush my hair, undress me anywhere
imagination, life is you creation
Chorus 2: (x2)
Come on barbie let's go party
ah, ah, ah, yeah
Come on barbie let's go party
oooh oh oooh, oooh oh oooh
a piano chord question?
Q. imagine c6, (notes C, E, G, A) but C, E, G, A flat. what is the name of this chord ? and Cm6 with an A flat replacing the A. also, what would you call the chord of C with an F added in, so the notes go C, E, F, G?
A. Well, C, E, F, G, would be SORT OF a Csus4, but I'm pretty sure in the regular Csus4 there's no E.
C, E, G, Ab is a Cadd13-. The - is not a typo, that is actually part of the name.
Cm6 (or C Minor 6) would become Cmadd13-. The add13 is of course because you add the thirteenth (it's the interval, like fourth, fifths, and octaves) from the root note of that chord.
How do they name chords?
Q. I have a book that shows all the chords on the piano but I have no idea where they got the names from. I understand what inversion means by looking at the patterns but I have no idea what the other stuff is. Like Csus4, C6, C7,C(degree sign)7,C minor 7 flat 5. What does the sus mean? What do the numbers mean? What does 7 flat 5 mean?
A. Chord Naming
http://www.standingstones.com/chordname.html
Usually the lowest note played becomes the letter the chord is named after (there are some exceptions eg inverted chords and slash chords but that is not important right now) - the other notes determine what "type" of chord it is.
So say the lowest note I play is A, I know it is an A chord of some description (well almost always) and I can work out what type of A chord from the other notes if I know my major scales and my chord formulas.
If you skip ahead in PMT a few pages you will note that major chords have the formula 1, 3, 5 - minor chords have the formula 1, b3, 5 - this is consistant and you might see or hear of them referred to as a triad.
So say I'm playing a chord but don't know what to call it - the way to work it out is to identify the notes I'm playing. For the example, if the lowest note is A and I also work out that I am playing C#, E - I align that to the A major scale and I would see that I am playing the 1st, 3rd & 5th notes of the scale so therefore I would call it an A major chord NB in tabs a single letter eg "A" really means A major but by convention it isn't stated as such.
If I discovered I was playing A, C, E - I would still call it an A chord but when I compared it to the A major scale I would see that C would actully be a flat 3rd - so this would make it a minor chord and I would call it Am
Note the 3rd controls the character of the chord i.e. whether it is a major or a minor - straight 3 = major, b3 = minor
Often when we play major or minor chords we actually play more than 3 notes but that is because we duplicate some of the notes - take A major for example, we play the A open string (which gives the chord its name), E on the 4th string, A again on the 3rd string, C# on the 2nd string and the open E on the little e string but essentially all the notes are A, C#, E
Now for lots of other chord types we add in a fourth note (a quadad). So when you see D7 it really means D dominant seventh (not a minor seventh, a major seventh, or a diminished 7th) the formula for a dominant seventh chord is 1, 3, 5, b7
So in this case we use the D major scale and see that 1, 3, 5, b7 are the notes D, F#, A, C and we call this D7
If we played D, F#, A, C# that would equate to 1, 3, 5, 7 of the D major scale and that would be called a D major 7 chord.
D, F, A, C would be 1, b3, 5, b7 of the D major scale and would be a D minor 7 chord (note the b3 is calling the shots on it being a minor)
And so on, and so on - this is the same for all chords - as long as we know the chord formulas for the different types of chords and we know how to relate that to the relevant major scale then we can work out what notes to play if we see a chord on a tab but haven't learned that chord shape yet simply by applying the formula. Alternatively if we are playing a chord shape that someone has shown us but are not sure what to call it we can work it out, again by seeing what the notes are and seeing which formula it fits.
Now onto your Cadd9 - that just means add the 9th degree of the C scale to your C major chord - so instead of playing 1, 3, 5 or C, E, G we add in a D NB not the D at the 2nd degree of the scale but an octave higher at the 9th degree.
Sometimes you will see a "sus" chord - either a 2 or a 4. That just means suspend the 3rd (take it out) and replace it with the 2nd or the 4th. So this chord is neither major nor minor but is a sus chord.
All the common chord formulas are in PMT
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