Bill Sheehan
Well-known member
Look at the simplest of chords like C and F. They both have duplicated notes so I stand by what I said. Also if are wanting to play a simple chord why in the heck would you tweak one of the duplicated notes to get another chord???? It's simply not the chord you want and won't sound the way you wanted it to. Note, I'm not saying you can't Jazz things up like by playing a 9th instead of a 7th (not the best example for this discussion since there aren't duplicate notes in a 7th) but in doing so you are Jazzing things up and not playing the original tune.
-- Gary
I totally see where you're coming from, Gary. For me, it's only an issue because the "duplicated" notes (be they identical, or the same note but an octave apart) seem to always sound slightly out-of-tune with each other, which makes me wince a little when it happens. Otherwise I'd be all for the occurrence of occasional "identical notes" in various chord shapes, because I do in fact like that "doubled" effect-- IF the two doubled notes are precisely ringing with each other. Unfortunately, because of the nature of the instrument, they often ring slightly "off" with each other despite careful tuning. Does that make at least some sense?