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## Music Theory (#229)

Do-Re-Me Rubyists,

I have a musician friend, let's call him Steve. Steve wants to be a
legendary guitarist. He practices every day, learning new chords and
techniques. But he has a problem.

Steve bought all the books, but it's too much trouble to flip through
them when he's practicing. He tried all sorts of ways to solve this
problem: adhesive notes that adhered to everything, big music stands
that kept getting knocked over, websites with loud and annoying video
advertisements... everything. He even tried enlisting the help of his
trusty cat, Pajamas, to turn the pages, yet nothing worked.

He's trying to learn Amaj7 so he can be cool like his hero, Herman Li,
but Pajamas clawed out that part of his book. Steve is programmer, so
he knows that when solving a problem it should be solved once and
forever. Steve wants to write a program where someone can type in
Amaj7 and see the notes that comprise the chord. Not only Amaj7 but
Dsus2 as well. In fact, any chord at all.

Steve, because he is a proper programmer, is lazy. He came to me and
asked if I could send this out on the "weekly" Ruby Quiz. Anything to
help a friend!

Your task is to create a program that will accept strings like: Amaj7,
Dsus2, Aminor, C, C9, G#dim, Ebadd9, etc. The output will be the notes
that make up the chord, for example

Cmajor => C E G
Ebdim7 => Eb Gb A C

Have fun! And thanks for helping Steve out!

-- 
-Daniel
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