common chord in a sentence

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1. In the right hand, the most common chord is the octave composed of the far-left key played with the thumb, and the fourth key, played with the index finger.
2. Ergonomically, the harmonic table format is exceptionally compact : all notes of the major and minor scales fall under the fingers, and all common chords can be played with one or two fingers.
3. Tim, even then, was well liked and always hit a common chord with his local Louisville people whenever he played and sang, as witnessed by his band members during this time of his career.
4. In analysis of a piece that uses this style of modulation, the common chord is labeled with its function in both the original and the destination keys, as it can be heard either way.
5. In the program for a concert in Oslo, Norway in April 2013, Crane writes that " I use simple and basic musical objects; common chords and intervals, arpeggios, drones, cadences, fragments of scales and melodies.
6. To make that point with the greatest possible force, Serialist composers have sometimes gone out of their way to avoid what had previously been taken as natural items : octaves, common chords, consistent pulse and so on.
7. But the everyday hardships of such an existence _ from shoddy housing to poor pay _ struck a common chord among the masses of their countrymen for whom such indignities are accepted as the unofficial price of undocumented life.
8. The style made use of several relatively common chord progressions, such as blues ( at base, I-IV-V, but infused with II-V motion ) and'rhythm changes'( I-VI-II-V, the chords to the 1930s pop standard " I Got Rhythm " ).
9. This is also one of the few CD-ROMs available that does an adequate job instilling the concept of triads and the idea that a common chord " grip " is but one voicing, or arrangement of notes, that characterize a given chord.
10. Both composers took the opportunity to write for a large orchestra with choir, boys'choir and soloists, and both were encouraged also to be affirmative in ways that only the common chord knows : their works both, curiously enough, ended in D major.