Originally Posted by: capoheadI sincerly hope hope this is a wind up right?

If not then lighten up matey. Yeah by all means learn your chords and write them out if you really want to be pedantic. I've got a BA in music and done the neapolitan sixth stuff but in the end having a resource like this just saves so much time and energy. Why get hung up about it?

Also I thought that posting this in the Open Forum would give it a broader audience which it deserved but that's been deleted as a duplicate post.

Come on guys get real. Sorry if I broke the rules but what harm is there in it?

Cheers
Dick

Well, it is nice to figure out the chords for yourself in that the knowledge will stick with you better. I mean, if I were writing music outside because it's warm and sunny or something, I'd just have to do the chords from memory, so I think that's the advantage to memorizing the difference between a Fr6, It6, Ger6, and Neopolitan 6. I mean, if one couldn't tell a Vii*7 from a CT*7 or NCT*7 just by recognition and memory, he'd have to use sites like this one as a kind of crutch. Now, they help make the chord finding process much faster, yes, but there's also an advantage to realizing how to construct these chords without the help. I think you're both right.

The only problem with breaking that particular rule is that it crowds the forum and wastes a bit of bandwidth. Your chord finding post belongs in this section, or possibly "places to go sites to see" if it had to be put somewhere else. We just have these divisions for ease.