Hi Cytania,

http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/chord_name.php

I have not looked for a while but  iam sure there is something on that site that allows you to type in the chords and it will tell you what key it is in, or it has the chords for different keys.

i.e G,C,A,D .... in the scale of G, or something like that.

Ken

pop musc as far as I am led to believe is short for popular music.
This wuld mean that pop musics root would have to derive from elsewhere. Any kind of muic could be described as popular if lots of people listen to it, therefore it is popular.
But we live in a world that has to label everything, put things in to categories unessesarily.
take for instance punk music, there is no such a thing really, it is rock music, mod music ( modern) no such a thing, it is rock too. It is the fans that categorise it by following who they decide they like. I think it is a dress sense more than a music thing sometimes, although "mod" music will sing about getting laid, getting high, where "punk music" will sing about how bad the governments are, how bad society is etc. these two forms of rock have also been catogorised as pop. The clash " london burning" a big hit, therefore in the charts, listened to lots, makes it pop ( popular), The jam ( mod music after their first album which was punk) number one hit with a few songs, town called mallice, in the charts, #1, pop!!

If the majority of heavy metal fans enjoyed abba music they would have been classed as easy listening heavy metal or some silly thing like that. and if it got in the charts then it would be easy listening heavy metal pop. lol

Ken

I am very open minded about music.
I dont think I can say there is one genre of music which I can catagorilly say I do not like.
but, I do hate dance music, rave music etc, even though I do like the prodigy and they I think are classed as dance, hmmm, maybe wrong?
I used to say I hated rap but I love eminem, dont like anyone else on that scene.

I dont like death metal but there are few song I do like.
I do love folk, rock and traditional mostly.
Blues is ok but too much is depressing ( in my view)
even some big band music and opera is not bad

Ken

Great song there James.

Another one I might use if i sound ok doing it.

Ken

go solo ( like you are now) and be a person it hyour own label.

Dont do thngs to impress others, do it to impress yourself.
if others dont like it then tough.

I am guessing you are young ( under 17), if so dont worry, ye'll nearly be old enough to go to pubs and clubs and meet others that feel the same.

If your guitar playing abilityis good enough then you start a band and dictate to them, who cares if you hate them or they hate you, as long as good music is getting made.

Ken

On the mentioning of the final cut,
would you consider that to be a pink floyd album or a Roger Waters album with 2 memers of pink floyd doing session work, since it was all roger's word really.

I still see it as Floyd since I see roger waters as the key to floyd, but a mate of min thinks differently,
what do you think./?

Ken

still good ye get out to them though, even if to enjoy the night.
The few I have been to, it is not someone gets up like at an open mic night. It is just one big jam for whoever wants to join in. So even if you have not got the skills to knock out a cong on yer own, you let someone else know the chords and they play along and if you have a fiddle, other guitars, accordian, banjo, mandolin etc it allows you to make mistakes ,lol

And although you say country is seen as too american, not all is country and western sort of music, lots of country music is just american folk music, and since it is a folk night, it does not have to just be scottish,irish,english etc. I play a few english folk songs up here and dont get any complaints. Even though when everyone is playing things like how hard done by the scots were by the english, they will then sing along to the streets of london.
Ye just canny beat a goof folk night to get people together.

Ken

hi mpraise,

If you are meaning there is chord diagrams through the lyrics then I think  there might be a bug.
Per ( the admin) did have this function you could have just the chord name above the lyrics or you could change the chord name to ave the chord diagram ,but I thought he had disabled this because there was a fault wit hthis.

Is this happening to all the songs you look at? If so then I am sure there will be somewhere to change this. I looked at a song and could not see anywhere to change it on the actual song, but there will be somehwere else to change this. I cannot tell you right now as I have not looked, but  iam going to go look now

Ken

oh,
the nolan sister, 5 of them I think.

alexander brothers,
proclaimers.

and the band HEART, was that not two wison sisters? nancy and, nancy's sister?

also Pete Townsehend brother Simon has played with The who, but not part of them.

only ones i can think of right now are eddie van halen and alex van halen from........ lol..............Van Halen

oh one more but not brothers, the white stripes, Jack and ermm Megan? white? I dont really know her name. I could google and cheat but I will hold y hansd up and say I have no idea. but they are brother and sisster

fantastic subject Phil,
I too have probably all their songs.

My top three albums are
in third place.

The Wall........... superb album and great to play a few songs off it too
Piper at the gates of dawn..............this used to be my first choice for years, shold be joint first with
Wish you were here........... not only my favourite floyd album but probably my all time favourite album.

I also love to bits Meddle, it should be in the top three as well I would think and dark side, but I cannot cram them all into three spaces unless I burn 5 albums onto 3 discs with mp3s, lol, I could fit a lot in then. Atom heart mother is also good by least fvourite would hae to be.................hmm, ahrd but Momentry lapse of reason, sying that I think it is a superb album too, but my least if I had to choose only because Roger Waters' precence is missing from it.

I much much prefer floyd with Roger Waters in it. I dont care if Rick Wright fell out with Roger because he felt he was taking over too much and wanted to dictate their direction ( leading him to not record The final cut with the band), what Roger was doing or wanting to do wit hthe music was the right thing in my opinion. Just look at the marvelous job he done wit h"the pros and cons of hitchhiking", just sounds like a floyd album, and why? because Roger is and was and always will be the true precnce of the sound pink floyd should have.
RogerWaters said last year about the time of that G8 live thing that Amused to death would have been a much bigger success if they had done it as pink floyd and I think he is damn right.
But saying this, without David Gilmour their would have been a big loss to the sound Floyd had in the 70's. His guitar playing and his voice were needed as well as Rogers musical direction for the success floyd had.
Although I Idolise Syd Barrett, the pink floyd would not have become so succesful without DAvid. But I do think they shuld have allowed Syd to stay in them for his ideas.
I said before somewhere I think that Syd was trying to get back in his band when they were making wish you were here but they told him he was not needed. And these guys had not seen him for a few years and still regarded him as a very good close friend? what utter bollocks!! they should have let him at least put a few wierd whistle sounds in a track or two, have him do voice overs, backing singing, anything to get him involved, and if Syd did not want that then fair enough, let him walk, but they should have gave him a chance.

well, thats some of my views on the magnificent band.

Ken

I dont write many love songs now but I find minor chords which are used a ot in sad songs ( as previously discussed elsewhere) sound good in love songs.

Tesla have a great song called "love song" it has Am,D,Bm,Em,G, C

you could make a love song up with any sort of chords really, it is the lyrics that can put a song into a category.

once you do it, you could share it wit hus all and post it on the songwriters section

byefurthenoo
KEn