man pearl jam know how to use use Bb chord well

Excuse my ignorance guys but what is the Bb chord??

:o:o

I prefer the A#

sorry, someone had to.

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

hahaha..

so nerdy.

well done


Bb... Bflat.. a half step down from B (or up from A as our friend pointed out )

in tab it's written as: - 1 3 3 (e a d g)

So it's a power chord??

J.D. wrote:

B flat is many things.

A note, a key, a barre chord, a chord, power chord sure.

I always liked the tension the Bb gives off in Faithfull and Hail, Hail.

Thanks!!

I can play, I'm still just getting familiar with the theory

yenraek wrote:

or a tonic triad if u wanna get trixy

woo baby here is an opportunity for me to use those 6 years i spent obtaining multiple degrees in music lol.

a power chord is not a tonic triad. a power chord is made up of 2 roots and a 5th, omitting the 3rd which gives the chord neither a major or minor quality. therefore a power chord is made up of 2 roots and a 5th. the spelling of a Bb power chord would be Bb F Bb. a triad must have 3 different notes, those being the root, 3rd, and 5th. if you want a a Bb Major you need to add in the 3rd which would be D and the spelling of the chord would be Bb D F. if you want Bb minor the 3rd would be Db making the chord spelling Bb Db F. the only difference in a major and minor chord such as A major to A minor is the lowering of the 3rd a half step.

and a triad(or any other chord) can only be considered "tonic" if the chord is the ONE(I) chord in the key. so take a song like nothing as it seems where the chord progression is B(I) - Bb minor(vii). Bb in this case is actually considered a#(although a# is enharmonic to Bb). but at any rate, the ONE(I) chord here is the B minor and therefore that is the tonic chord and no other chord in the song will be a tonic chord until there is a point of modulation and we have a new key.

ok glad a BA in music business & technolgy and an AS is music general paid off for somthing lol...

by the way i wasn't taking a shot at anyone i was just having fun

CanvasAdam wrote:

woo baby here is an opportunity for me to use those 6 years i spent obtaining multiple degrees in music lol.

a power chord is not a tonic triad. a power chord is made up of 2 roots and a 5th, omitting the 3rd which gives the chord neither a major or minor quality. therefore a power chord is made up of 2 roots and a 5th. the spelling of a Bb power chord would be Bb F Bb. a triad must have 3 different notes, those being the root, 3rd, and 5th. if you want a a Bb Major you need to add in the 3rd which would be D and the spelling of the chord would be Bb D F. if you want Bb minor the 3rd would be Db making the chord spelling Bb Db F. the only difference in a major and minor chord such as A major to A minor is the lowering of the 3rd a half step.

and a triad(or any other chord) can only be considered "tonic" if the chord is the ONE(I) chord in the key. so take a song like nothing as it seems where the chord progression is B(I) - Bb minor(vii). Bb in this case is actually considered a#(although a# is enharmonic to Bb). but at any rate, the ONE(I) chord here is the B minor and therefore that is the tonic chord and no other chord in the song will be a tonic chord until there is a point of modulation and we have a new key.

ok glad a BA in music business & technolgy and an AS is music general paid off for somthing lol...

by the way i wasn't taking a shot at anyone i was just having fun

whatever you just said made me jealous, damn man thats quite impressive

i'm a music theory machine lol. 6 years studying classical music, playing 1st chair in the UAB Classical Guitar Ensemble, and making appearances with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and 6 years studying music theory will do it to ya =P

lol bach is the standard. the reason why is because bach is the daddy of music theory. he didn't know that he was and didn't even try to be. but all of classical music theory is derived from all of bach's work. i have over a 4 hour repoitoire of bach music for classical guitar that i perform often.

I 'wrote' three new 'songs' and two include the infamous Bb. It does have something.