ringing chord

The defining characteristic of the barbershop style is the ringing chord, one in which certain overtones of the four voices reinforce each other, sometimes so strongly that the overtone is perceived by the listener as a distinct tone, even though none of the voices are perceived as singing that tone.

A unique characteristic of barbershop music that occurs when the four voices are tuned in a way that creates an audible sympathetic pitch or fifth note sounding the third harmonic. This pitch is different from, and higher in pitch from, the fundamental pitches being sung by the quartet.

A chord played as a sequence of single notes on multiple instruments (of the same or different kinds), sustained so that the chord can be heard.

A simple example of two notes being interpreted as a chord is when the root and third are played but the fifth is omitted. In the key of C major, if the music stops on the two notes G and B, most listeners hear this as a G major chord.

Put a finger of your picking hand (or the plectrum) on the string to mute it. If your next note is on an adjacent string, touch the current string with a finger as part of the picking motion. Press the side of your picking hand down on the strings to mute them.

Have you ever wondered why major chords sound “happy” and minor chords sound “sad”? According to guitar instructor Adam Neely, it all comes down to intervals. “It has a lot to do with the concept of brightness - relative sizes of intervals and how we psychologically perceive larger intervals to be 'brighter',” he says.

Barbershop is a style of arranging in close, four part, a cappella harmony; it is not an era, style of music, or genre. The melody is usually in the second voice with harmony above and below.

tritone In music a tritone consists of two notes that are three whole steps apart, such as “C” to “F#.” Not found in either the major or minor scales, and due to its discordant sound, it has been called “the Devil's Chord.”

Chords are two or more harmonic notes played at the same time. Most basic chords are built using three notes. Chords are built on their root note (the starting note). The rest of the notes in a chord are determined by the chord quality.

List of chords

In plane geometry, a chord is the line segment joining two points on a curve. The term is often used to describe a line segment whose ends lie on a circle.

A line segment joining any two points of a circle is called a chord of the circle.