{"id":993,"date":"2016-03-28T21:32:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T21:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/?p=993"},"modified":"2018-11-24T21:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T21:49:57","slug":"abbreviation-for-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/abbreviation-for-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbreviation for Minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmmm.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2591\" data-gallery><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmmm-150x150.gif\" alt=\"mmmm\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2591\" \/><\/a>Most musicians agree on the notation of a minor chord. Just an <em>m<\/em> will do, so we will write <q>DM<\/q> and <q>GM7<\/q>. Unfortunately, some musicians use <em>min<\/em> instead. And in some books, like the New Real Book and the Latin Real Book (both published by Sher Music), <em>mi<\/em> is used.<\/p>\n<p>So how are these preferences devided? Just for the fun it it, I did a small investigation in Google. I searched for the term <em>Am7<\/em> and I compared the number of hits to <em>Ami7<\/em> and <em>Amin7<\/em>. And then I did the same for <em>Bm7<\/em>, <em>Cm7<\/em>, etcetera. Here are the results. The total number of hits on <em>m7<\/em>-chords is 4.941.000, on mi7-chords 201.400 and on min7-chords 120.660. The numbers are clear. The notation method with <em>m<\/em> is far more common than the other two. As for the two alternatives, <em>min<\/em> is used a little less than <em>mi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We may conclude that <em>m<\/em> is the abbreviation musicians have settled on. Therefore, publishers and musicians, if you want to comform yourself to the standard, use <em>m<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmmm.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2591\" data-gallery><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmmm-150x150.gif\" alt=\"mmmm\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2591\" \/><\/a>Most musicians agree on the notation of a minor chord. Just an <em>m<\/em> will do, so we will write <q>DM<\/q> and <q>GM7<\/q>. Unfortunately, some musicians use <em>min<\/em> instead. And in some books, like the New Real Book and the Latin Real Book (both published by Sher Music), <em>mi<\/em> is used.<\/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-993","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\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krammer.nl\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}