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How do I play a G/A in "AI Fingering"

Started by chony, April 22, 2020, 01:31:50 PM

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andyg

Musically, C/A is Am7, even though the composer hasn't written it as such. There are plenty of mislabelled chords in sheet music. I've got one on the desk that describes the same chord in two ways - on the same line of music!

The A bass is the important part. A C will indeed produce A minor, so if you want to hear that G in the C chord as well, Am7 will give you that.

In any case, many of these chords are transitory and don't last more than a beat or two, so it often makes little difference to the overall sound.
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janamdo

Quote from: Toril S on January 25, 2021, 06:03:24 PM
What you just stated, you play a chord in any inversion, and it sounds the same :)

With this in mind.
Now i was interesting in the way how the yamaha styles are programmed : are chord inversion used in a style or not ?  :)
Can't find easy information about styles programming

mikf

Jan
You are getting confused between inversion and voicing. If the bass note is changed then it is already an inversion, regardless of the order of the other notes played. So when the style recognizes a different bass note it is already playing an inversion regardless of the order of the notes within the style.
Changing the order of the notes played is called voicing. The chord C for example consists of the notes C E G, but I can not only play them in any order, but anywhere on the keyboard. That is called voicing.
When you create a style you can of course decide what notes you will hear i.e. the voicing. So for example if you program a chord within the style on a pad or whatever composed of triad C E G, then that is what you will hear - relative of course to the chord you actually play in real time, and regardless of what voicing you actually use to play that chord. If you program EG C - or indeed any other collection of notes  eg C G (high)E , then that is what you will always hear when you play the chord C in real time, no matter how you voice the chord as you play in real time.
To allow a style to recalculate the voicing for every combination you could play in real time would be very complicated, and probably very messy. So the voicing in the style is set when you program the style and is not changed. But the bass note changes if you activate a fingering method to recognize the bass you play.
This whole thing is actually much simpler than you are making it. An inversion is simply a chord played with a different bass than the root. A slash chord is just a way of notating what bass to play. Is that always an inversion - no - because the bass may or may not be part of the standard chord. But what it is called doesn't actually matter - you just play it.   
Mike
 

janamdo

Quote from: mikf on January 27, 2021, 10:55:29 AM

This whole thing is actually much simpler than you are making it. An inversion is simply a chord played with a different bass than the root. A slash chord is just a way of notating what bass to play. Is that always an inversion - no - because the bass may or may not be part of the standard chord. But what it is called doesn't actually matter - you just play it.   
Mike

Thanks
Yes, was for me confusing the notation of a slash chord when the bassnote was not belonging to the chord.
Now i know it for the slash chord.
Must give new meaning onto a slash  chord notation.
I am also intererested how Yamaha styles are programmed in general. 

Did not a quick answer on this style construction build, but takes more time

Jan