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unusual facts about Chord



Andrew Chord

Chord is a highly accomplished armament designer, and designed Night Thrasher's original battle-suit.

Anomphalidae

Turbinopsis, from the Lower Devonian of North America, was removed from the Palaeotrochidae (Palaeotrochacea); has a spiral chord not found on typical Anomphalidae and an aperture with a thicker, wider lip, also atypical.

Arsenio Rodríguez

When the pattern is used as a type of block chord guajeo, as in "Oye Como Va," it's referred to as ponchando.

Bambi Meets Godzilla

After the credits, Bambi looks up to see Godzilla's giant foot coming down, squashing him flat (set to the final chord of The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" played at half-speed).

Bendu Apparao R.M.P

This is the only movie has struck the right chord with the audiences across theaters as one of the most entertaining films after the unbeaten box office success Magadheera.

Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films

The case centered on N.W.A.’s song “100 Miles and Runnin’” and Funkadelic'sGet Off Your Ass and Jam.” Essentially, N.W.A. sampled a two-second guitar chord from Funkadelic's tune, lowered the pitch and looped it five times in their song.

Carl Friedrich Weitzmann

His most lasting contribution to music theory (researched by contemporary American theorist Richard Cohn) concerns chord relations.

Chord function

Diatonic function – in music, the role of a chord in relation to a diatonic key;

Dave Laing

His books have included The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), The Electric Muse: the story of Folk into Rock (with Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow and Robert Shelton, 1975), and One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985).

Demon's Dance

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "The record retreats a bit from McLean's nearly free playing on New and Old Gospel and 'Bout Soul, instead concentrating on angular, modal avant bop with more structured chord progressions... While Demon's Dance didn't quite push McLean's sound the way its two predecessors had, there was no sign that the altoist was beginning to run out of creative steam".

Dissonance

Consonance and dissonance in music are properties of an interval or chord (the quality of a discord)

Europa XS

The Europa touring wing uses a unique Dykins 12% thickness/chord ratio airfoil designed by Donald H. Dykins, who had been deputy Chief Aerodynamicist at Hawker Siddeley Aviation, and later technical director of British Aerospace and chief aerodynamicist on the European Airbus.

Funk 'n Pussy

The album was released in 2000 for Chord Records and was produced by Schoolly D, DJ Code Money and DJ Chuck Chillout.

G major

This is in part because of its relative ease of playing on both keyboard and string instruments: its scale comprises only one black note on the keyboard, all of a guitar's six strings can be played open in G, half of the strings on the mandolin and violin/fiddle are in the G chord when open, and the banjo is usually tuned to open G. It is the key stipulated by Queen Elizabeth II to be used for "God Save the Queen" in Canada.

Hoffnung Music Festival

They included works such as Haydn's Surprise Symphony 'with extra surprises' added by Donald Swann, an 'excerpt from Belshazzar's Feast, with full orchestra and chorus conducted by William Walton himself (with a fly swat), which turned out to consist of just a single chord with the word "Slain!", and humorous works specially commissioned from well-known composers of the day.

Hold the Line

"'Hold the Line' was a perfect example of what people will describe as your heavy metal chord guitar licks, your great triplet A-notes on the piano, your 'Sly'-hot-fun-in-the-summertime groove, all mishmashed together with a boy from New Orleans singing... and it really crossed over a lot of lines.".

Howrah railway station

The station is served by the Eastern Railway for local trains to Belur Math, Tarakeswar, Katwa, Bandel, Sheoraphuli, Bardhaman and numerous intermediate stations (see Main Line, Chord and Tarakeswar branch line); and mail/express trains to Central, North and North-East India.

Hunts Cross chord

Hunts Cross chord is a section of railway track in Liverpool that was built by the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) to connect the LNWR's Edge Hill to Ditton Junction line with the CLC's Liverpool to Manchester Line.

Japancakes

Rhythm guitarist Eric Berg formed the band with the idea of putting ten musicians in a band without any rehearsal, and performing a D chord for 45 minutes (similar to Terry Riley's In C).

Leanne Rowe

Rowe's radio drama work includes Avoid London, Loving, Forget Me Not, One Chord Wonders, Roald Dahl's The Witches and To Sir with Love.

Lost in the Desert

It seems to have struck a particular chord in the UK, where it was released in cinemas as a double-bill with The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in 1974.

Love Buzz

In a 1989 review for British music magazine Melody Maker, Everett True wrote, "Nirvana are beauty incarnate. A relentless two-chord garage beat which lays down some serious foundations for a sheer monster of a guitar to howl over. The volume control ain't been built yet which can do justice to this three-piece!"

Macintosh startup

The first generation of Power Macintosh computers also do not use the Reekes chime, instead using a chord strummed on a Yamaha 12-string acoustic guitar by jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan.

Matsyaganda Express

The train has become important link and emotional chord for natives of Dakshina Kannada, Karwar and Udupi districts living in Mumbai and surrounding cities.

Merseyside Route Utilisation Strategy

There should be a study of the possibility of an electrified chord from Upholland with through services to Liverpool (3).

Microwriter

CyKey is named after the Microwriter chord system's co-inventor Cy Endfield.

Nathan Manufacturing, Inc.

The K5LA is the most popular horn in use today, with a B major 6th chord (D-sharp, F-sharp, G-sharp, B, D-sharp).

Neotonality

Neotonality (or Neocentricity) is an inclusive term referring to musical compositions of the twentieth century in which the tonality of the common-practice period (i.e. functional harmony and tonic-dominant relationships) is replaced by one or several nontraditional tonal conceptions, such as tonal assertion or contrapuntal motion around a central chord.

Pitch axis

Pitch axis theory, a musical technique used in constructing chord progressions

PlanetSim

In PlanetSim, developers can work at two main levels: creating and testing new overlay algorithms like Chord or Pastry, or creating and testing new services (DHT, CAST, DOLR, etc.) on top of existing overlays.

To validate the utility of our approach, we have implemented two overlays (Chord and Symphony) and a variety of services like CAST, DHT, and object middleware.

Robert Tappan Morris

Morris' principal research interest is computer network architectures which includes work on distributed hash tables such as Chord and wireless mesh networks such as Roofnet.

Rusty Cooley

He relied on instructional books and videos like Doug Marks's Metal Method, Ted Greene's "Chord Chemistry" and "Modern Chord Progressions" books, REH instructional videos, as well as, Robben Ford's instructional DVD's.

Shanti Wintergate

"This Moment" was a spark of an album with catchy 3-4 chord pop/rock tunes that caught the attention of famed Warped Tour promoter Kevin Lyman and let to performances on 2006/2008 Vans Warped Tours.

She's the Woman

As the original guitar solo ended up becoming the breakdown in 1981's “Mean Street", Wolfgang came up with a new breakdown "that had these crazy chord changes", leading Eddie to carefully plan out a new solo, the first time he had done so since "Runnin' with the Devil".

Simply Music

Alongside the Foundation Program, and often using concepts from the Foundation pieces, students learn arrangement, improvisation, composition, chord-reading, and theory.

Singur

It is 2 km ahead of Kamarkundu junction, the crossing point of Howrah-Bardhaman chord and Howrah-Tarakeshwar lines.

Snecma Silvercrest

The engine architecture includes a solid wide-chord swept fan with a 4-stage booster, followed by a 4 axial stage + 1 centrifugal stage high pressure compressor.

So What chord

Frank Mantooth dedicated two chapters to the chord under the name "Miracle voicing" in his work Voicings for Jazz Keyboard.

Soldier's Son

Ricky Skaggs, Paul Brewster and Ed Faris' guitars was featured on the intro in the chord of D. Steve Gibb, who was also musician, he joined bands like 58, Black Label Society, Crowbar and many more.

T. V. Smith

Casey Chaos, lead singer, is a lifelong fan of The Adverts, and referenced them in the song "Hello (One Chord Lovers)".

The Very Best Definitive Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection

# "New Improved Song" (Released on a 7" EP free with Sounds magazine in 1988. Outtake from the Introduce Yourself sessions. The song "The Morning After" from The Real Thing shares the same chord progression and bassline, but is largely a different song.

Tristan chord

The Brazilian conductor and composer Flavio Chamis wrote Tristan Blues, a composition based on the Tristan chord.

Unified field

In Béla Bartók's Bagatelles, and several of Alfredo Casella's Nine Piano Pieces such as No. 4 'In Modo Burlesco' the close intervallic relationship between motive and chord creates or justifies the great harmonic dissonance.

Vicky Ki Taxi

The stories conceived and written by Vipul K Rawal of Iqbal (film) fame were heartwarming and touched a chord with all sorts of viewers.

We Started Nothing

"Great DJ" was me playing a D chord on the guitar for hours, because that's all I could play.

Weesp–Leiden railway

Amsterdam De Vlugtlaan was closed in 2000, after the opening of the Hemboog: a chord at Amsterdam Sloterdijk which connects Schiphol and the city of Zaandam.

Woodmansterne

Just beyond Woodmansterne upper part border to the north, in the Oaks area of the Wallington is on the A2022, a chord-like route within the M25 from Epsom to the London Boroughs of Croydon and Bromley.


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