Can Chords Be Replaced By Single Notes? Options

[richardb]

Hi, as I havent learnt to play chords yet, I was wondering if any piece of

music that involves chords can be played with each chord replaced

by some ordinary note

or can a chord note only be done with the chord's group of notes played

simultaneously?


if each chord can be replaced by an ordinary note to achieve

the same tune how is that done?

do you replace by the chord by say the deepest note of the chord?

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[Dinaga]

The "deepest" note you're talking about is called the root note, and yes, you can say it's the most important note of the chord. But that in no way means you should play root notes instead of chords on the guitar. My advice is, start learning chords now, and it will help you a lot, not just theory-wise, but it will also train your musical ear. The sooner you start exploring chords and ways to play them properly, the sooner you'll become a better player. There are a lot of good chord lessons here so why don't you try?

I'd suggest you start with open chords and then build your way up.
Instructor Ivan has started chord sessions here:
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=42379
and I think it's a great way to start learning chords, because you can get constant feedback from the instructor!

Instructor Bear Rose has a section dedicated to beginners and there is a good amount of chords lessons there:
https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/lessonser...ginners-Corner/

But you can also search the lessons yourself for chords and see what fits you the most.

Good luck

EDIT: And to answer this:

if each chord can be replaced by an ordinary note to achieve

the same tune how is that done?

Without going into much detail, I'll just say that you can't achieve the same chord tune by replacing it with just one note because a chord is consisted of minimum three notes. That means that you can't fully capture the "mood" of the chord with only one (root) note. For example, chords A major and A minor have the same root note (note A), but they have completely different moods and other theory relationships because of the other notes in the chord. Major chords sound cheerful and happy, while minor chords sound sad.

I won't go into too much detail for now, maybe some of the other guys will have something to add.

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This post has been edited by Dinaga: Jan 13 2012, 03:01 AM

[richardb]

The sooner you start exploring chords and ways to play them properly, the sooner you'll become a better player. There are a lot of good chord lessons here so why don't you try?

any suggestions then of music which has as few different chords as possible and where the chords are as

easy as possible also?


when music has chords what kind of proportion of the notes are chords?

can it be any proportion?

or is it lots of single notes with an occasional chord, or is it all chords?

a chord would seem to be a different form of sound than a single note,

the chord sounds diffuse or vague where the single note is clear and precise,

if both kinds of notes occur then the nature of the sound is also changing

could that be say single notes for the main singer and then chords for

the background choir?

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