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A chord chart (or chart) is a form of musical notation that describes the basic harmonic and rhythmic information for a song or tune. It is the most common form of notation used by professional session musicians playing jazz or popular music. It is intended primarily for a rhythm section (usually consisting of piano, guitar, drums and bass).
A common type of three-chord song is the simple twelve-bar blues used in blues and rock and roll. Typically, the three chords used are the chords on the tonic, subdominant, and dominant (scale degrees I, IV and V): in the key of C, these would be the C, F and G chords.
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Borrowed chords are widely used in Western popular music and rock music. For example, there are a number of songs in E major which use the ♭ III chord (e.g., a G major chord used in an E major song), the ♭ VII chord (e.g., a D major chord used in an E major song) and the ♭ VI chord (e.g., a C major chord used in an E major song). All of ...
In jazz music, on the other hand, such chords are extremely common, and in this setting the mystic chord can be viewed simply as a C 13 ♯ 11 chord with the fifth omitted. In the score to the right is an example of a Duke Ellington composition that uses a different voicing of this chord at the end of the second bar, played on E (E 13 ♯ 11 ).
Some pop and rock songs from the 1980s to the 2010s have fairly simple chord progressions. Funk emphasizes the groove and rhythm as the key element, so entire funk songs may be based on one chord. Some jazz-funk songs are based on a two-, three-, or four-chord vamp. Some punk and hardcore punk songs use only a few chords.
Besides these five types there are many more seventh-chords, which are less used in the tonal harmony of the common-practice period. [80] An approximate "ranking by frequency of the seventh chords in major". [82] V 7 ⓘ (dominant), ii 7 ⓘ (minor), vii ø 7 ⓘ (half-diminished), IVM 7 ⓘ (major), vi 7 ⓘ, IM 7 ⓘ, or iii 7 ⓘ