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  2. Closely related key - Wikipedia

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    In music, a closely related key (or close key) is one sharing many common tones with an original key, as opposed to a distantly related key (or distant key). In music harmony , there are six of them: four of them share all the pitches except one with a key with which it is being compared, one of them shares all the pitches, and one shares the ...

  3. Common chord (music) - Wikipedia

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    A closely related key can be defined as one that has many common chords. A relative major or minor key has all of its chords in common; a dominant or subdominant key has four in common. Less closely related keys have two or fewer chords in common. For example, C major and A minor have 7 common chords while C major and F ♯ major have 0 common ...

  4. List of guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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    Drop B variations – B-F ♯-B-E-A-C ♯-F ♯ / B-F ♯-B-E-G ♯-C ♯-F ♯ / B-G ♭-B-E-A-D ♭-G ♭ a tuning which imitates the standard drop B tuning of a 6 string electric guitar, but with a high F ♯ for soloing. Used by bands such as All Shall Perish, Decapitated, Unearth, and Assemble the Chariots,

  5. Chord notation - Wikipedia

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    the chord quality (e.g. minor or lowercase m, or the symbols o or + for diminished and augmented chords, respectively; chord quality is usually omitted for major chords) whether the chord is a triad , seventh chord , or an extended chord (e.g. Δ 7 )

  6. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    Approach chord; Chord names and symbols (popular music) Chromatic mediant; Common chord (music) Diatonic function; Eleventh chord; Extended chord; Jazz chord; Lead sheet; List of musical intervals; List of pitch intervals; List of musical scales and modes; List of set classes; Ninth chord; Open chord; Passing chord; Primary triad; Quartal chord ...

  7. C-sharp major - Wikipedia

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    In Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, Franz Liszt takes the unusual step of changing the key from D-flat major to C-sharp major near the start of the piece, and then back again to B-flat minor. Maurice Ravel selected C-sharp major as the tonic key of "Ondine" from his piano suite Gaspard de la nuit.

  8. Guitar chord - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, the BFBFBF augmented-fourths tuning repeats itself after one string. [75] In major-thirds tuning, chords are inverted by raising notes by three strings on the same frets. The inversions of a C major chord are shown. [76] A chord is inverted when the bass note is not the root note.

  9. Chord progression - Wikipedia

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    By thinking of this blues progression in Roman numerals, a backup band or rhythm section could be instructed by a bandleader to play the chord progression in any key. For example, if the bandleader asked the band to play this chord progression in the key of B ♭ major, the chords would be B ♭-B ♭-B ♭-B ♭, E ♭-E ♭-B ♭-B ♭, F-E ...