{"id":986,"date":"2016-03-30T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/?p=986"},"modified":"2018-11-24T20:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:05:01","slug":"parenthesis-in-chord-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/parenthesis-in-chord-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenthesis in Chord Symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/parenthesis-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Parenthesis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2594\" \/>Some musicians write extensions (except for the first one) between parenthesis. Thus, they would write <q>G7(>9)<\/q> instead of <q>G7>9<\/q>, and <q>D7(<9<5)<\/q> instead of <q>D7<9<5<\/q>. This way of notating can be seen in The New Real Book. But apart from that publisher, not a lot of publishers use this method. Here is een example of <a>Take the A Train<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-train.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2589\" data-gallery><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/A-train.gif\" alt=\"A-train\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2589\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUsing parenthesis do not really help in making the chords more readable. I would advise starting musicians to leave them out.<\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/parenthesis-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Parenthesis\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2594\" \/>Some musicians tend to write all extensions after the first extension between parenthesis. Thus, they would write <q>G7(>9)<\/q> instead of <q>G7>9<\/q>, and <q>D7(<9<5)<\/q> instead of <q>D7<9<5<\/q>. This way of notating can be seen in The New Real Book. But apart from that publisher, not a lot of books use this method. Here is een example of <a>Take the A Train<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-piano-playing-and-harmony","category-8-arranging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}