I've been practicing some basic chords and I've discovered there is some kind of pattern to all of them.

I'm sure there is a way to identify a notes chord just by counting, but I'm not sure what that method is.


If someone could please tell me I'd be very thankful.


sorry for my nubness.

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http://8notes.com/f/36_209848.asp

Rearrange the notes (by putting one or more in a different octave) such that they're all a third apart. The lowest note is now the root of the chord (the note the chord is named after).

Thirds, by the way, are every other note in a major scale--or every other letter in the musical alphabet, depending how you look at it. So A to C, for example, is a third, and so is B to D, C to E, and so on.

If you come across, say, G B C E, ascending, you can put it in thirds by bringing the C and E both down an octave (or the G and B both up an octave), giving you C E G B. Thus it's some kind of C chord (a C major seventh, as it turns out in this case).