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12/09/2017 5:01 am
Originally Posted by: Meridirh

[br]I know that this chord still contains the three basic triad notes C-E-G but there are two Cs and two Es which are both in different octaves.

Does this basically change the name of the chord to somehow distinguish it from a basic

triad? Is there something like a 3-ton-voicing and 4 or 5-tone-voicings? Does it actually matter if I have 10 notes played as long as it still contains the three basic three notes of the chord? (based on triads)

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No. Octaves and amount of each note in chord doesn't affect to chord name. Sometimes chord inversions are notified by it's bass note.

For example C/G means that lowest note in chord is G (2nd inversion). Still, the order of C and E in chord doesn't affect to chord name.