Yeah, 3 & 7 decide the nature of the chord. Ditch everything but that,
then add extensions (at least for the instruments that carry the
harmony). You took a better musical route; I learned jazz first so my
theory is good but my knowledge of the traditional ruleset is a bit
lacking.

Incidentally, I just tested my code on my other machine and got a
"warning: parenthesize argument(s) for future version"... I hope
there's no seachange in syntax on the way? I'm assuming this is just
for ambiguities?

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Brian Candler <b.candler / pobox.com> wrote:
> Evan Hanson wrote:
>> Actually, one of the toughest parts
>> about
>> this problem was deciding what degrees of the chord are implied by a
>> given
>> symbol. I'm a jazz musician, and we just play whatever the hell we want,
>> so I
>> wasn't sure on the specifics of a few of them.
>
> I learned classical at school, so had to unlearn a load of stuff when
> trying to play jazz.
>
> OUT:
> Cmajor => C E G
>
> IN:
> Cmajor => E B  ¨Â ¨Â > not C: that's the bass player's job)
> not G: perfect 5th just reinforces the root)
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