Sentence examples for fixed chord from inspiring English sources

Free jazz has a different relationship to tempo and fixed chord changes; it can be electrifying to listen to, or it can feel as if you have accidentally tripped some sort of alarm.

Mr. Helias's tightly structured works are launching pads for terrifically energetic sections with no fixed chord changes, which can wander and expand and contract and still show great discipline.

He didn't get rid of the notion of harmony — he and his musicians created magnificent contrapuntal interweavings — but he got rid of the idea of a fixed series of chords that matched to a fixed series of bars and to particular beats within bars.

The basic idea for a PS joint is such that it is fixed on the bottom chord without sliding under the design load, but can slide along the bottom chord to help distribute the unbalanced tensile forces that the catenary action generates on different bottom chord members.

In a few pieces, with her left hand fixed in a droning chord and her right reformulating the notes of a rhapsodic melody, the music came close to the arty pop vocabulary of Tori Amos; at other times there was a strong hint of Mr. Bley's down-home themes played in eccentric time.

The Reynolds number based on the airfoil chord is fixed at Rec= 408,000 for all flow configurations studied.

Because the bass-oriented music of the 17th century relied primarily on chord progressions as fixed by the bass notes, it was structurally quite open-ended; i.e., the new technique suited any number of formal patterns.

The propulsor pitched about a fixed axis at its quarter chord, with a six-axis load cell measuring the forces and torques on the shaft.

You're fixed with the notes and chords you have.

Instead of fixed verses or choruses there are two-chord patterns that run as long as Ms. Case wants, or as short; they might add or subtract a beat, suddenly switch chords or support an entirely new tune in mid-song.

There's a nearly fixed structure in pop music, and a best-selling chord progression, I-V-vi-IV.