how not to do it

[solarbird]

So this chord I've been writing down sometimes as Em (just as Em, presumably not to be confused with the other Em that people actually use, presumably through the magic of just knowing) and sometimes as just plain old E, and which I've discovered is not actually in my chord book, is actually a second-inversion E major.

I discovered this today was I was - finally! - getting some traction on a new song, not the one that I've been trying to get to go but once that is a reaction against the one I've been trying to get to go, and tried using it when I realised I didn't know how to write down what I was playing there.

So, um, if you're one of the two or six people in the world who might have chords for any of this stuff: in "Moment of Decision," all those Em markings are actually second-inversion E major (with a bonus high E if you're on mandolin) and the same is true for that one E in the bridge of "Thought You Knew," and I think that's all that have escaped into the wild.

Some day, I'm gonna have to learn to read music. ^_^

Comments

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

I has confusion! E minor and E major have, like, totally different notes in them!

[solarbird]

I know! But names confuse me. I've been playing the right things, just writing down the wrong things in my crappy notation to hand other people. HA ha! or something, except it's me.