understand voicings page

[felixroos]

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[daslyfe]

Thank you for doing this!! It will be much easier to teach now

[TodePond]

very helpful and interesting!

i followed through and noted down and questioned I had along the way.

• I didn't understand what you meant by "the voicings will be automatically generated with smooth voice leading" but then you got to it later on and it was fine. maybe adding a "(more on this later)" or something would have helped me to keep going.
• when you say "- ^ is the same as M, for example C^7 = CM7", I assume that C7 is also the same? or am I wrong?

do whatever you want with this user test, thanks for the write up :)

[felixroos]

thanks for the feedback!

I've tweaked a few sentences to hopefully make it clearer.

when you say "- ^ is the same as M, for example C^7 = CM7", I assume that C7 is also the same? or am I wrong?

this is indeed a bit confusing, but unfortunately the "norm": C^ = CM = C . but C^7 !== C7
C^7 = C E G B but C7 = C E G Bb or generally "^7" = 0 4 7 11 and "7" = 0 4 7 10 .
It might make sense to add a little bit more theoretical background about where these chord symbols come from / what they mean.

[bwagner]

Thank you, @felixroos, for your answer on discord about how to implement Drop2-voicings!

Maybe it helps to understand if the voicing dictionary in the example would be broken down:

addVoicings('house', {
'': ['7 12 16', '0 7 16', '4 7 12'],
'm': ['0 3 7']
})

The first key is the default (empty string), hence the major triad.
The provided voicings for the first of three voicings of the major triad are:
7 = 7 half steps = pure 5th
12 = 12 half steps = pure octave
16 = 16 half steps = octave above major third

I guess the order of these offsets is irrelevant to the result since they'll sound simultaneously. Still, this might be worth mentioning.