I (31m) am new to music and trying to understand how the human ear hears a chord as a combination of strings.
To avoid ambiguity I’ll focus on the C chord of a 5 string banjo tuned to G.
The individual strings for a C chord are played with E,C,G,E,G(high)
How do G and E combine to sound like C? My initial thought is constructive wave interference but that seems like it would make an F note, not C.
Please help a newbie 🙂
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As said below, what you get when two or more notes are played together is a Chord .
Chords are generally the changes in the song, between verses, choruses etc.
So when you play a C chord, you can play all the notes within it and they normally follow this pattern, imagine a piano (even better if you a real one of virtual one)
Start at C (if you don’t know this Google and come back!)
Now the white keys on a piano can be part of some cool patterns (the blacks can too but for the sake of This C chord).
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