[Dixielandjazz] No chordal Instrument - was Two horn front line

[Gluetje1 at aol.com]

It's delightful that you assume more than one chord player in a group can  
agree on how many chords/changes belong in a given song.  You see, the  stumping 
point is what number one would divide by.  Course adding up  those sums is 
pretty challenging also.  ROFL
Ginny
 
In a message dated 9/18/2006 2:21:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
jazzboard at hotmail.com writes:

I think  it's time to re-introduce a revolutionary new approach to chords. It 
has  been proposed before but does not seem to have gained much acceptance in 
 
our genre (or, for that matter, any genre) of music.

The system is  called "Chord Averaging" and holds great promise in the 
generation  harmonic accompaniment to a melodic line.  The way it works is as 
 
follows:

1. Chords have numerical equivalents - I, IV, V chords,  etc. (this can also 
be referred to as the 1, 4 and 5 chords which are the  basis for virtually 
all 12 bar blues tunes and many, if not most of all  popular music.  
Nevertheless, other chords are often inserted -  passing chords, color 
chords, etc. and they all have numerical  values.

2. Using the information in the paragraph above, one adds up  ALL the 
numerical values of ALL the chords used in any given song.   One then divides 
the total sum by the number of chords in the song to  arrive at the average 
(mean) number.

3. The mathematically oriented  musician will immediately see the value of 
this system . . . all one needs  to do to accompany any given song is simply 
play the average chord  throughout the entire rendition.

No thanks are necessary for  introducing this marvelous musical system . . . 
a job well done is thanks  enough for -

Bill "producing 'mean' music"  Gunter
jazzboard at hotmail.com

ps - this is especially useful to  washboard players.