Sentence examples for off the chord from inspiring English sources
He then unwound his wrist from the securing rope and stepped off the chord.
Sometimes, take one of your fingers off the chord that you are playing, then quickly put it back.
The stimulus consisted simply of the chords which contained a figure (between 3 and 7 chords).
He said that he played off the melody, not chords.
At the same time, he left room for Mahler's grotesqueries and jokes, all the way to the end: the off-kilter augmented chord in the penultimate bar had an insolent, Bronx-cheer sound.
The show strikes an off-kilter chord from the beginning, with the men and women of a New Jersey town singing the unusual news that "all the things we've ever loved, all the things we've held dear, have begun to disappear completely".
If you lift your middle finger off of the string, it makes the chord minor.
As the guitars peeled off triumphant chords, he sang, "You stole from the rich and the poor/And the not very rich and the very poor/And you stole our hearts away-a-ay-a-ay," sounding disabused but not disillusioned.
The two fortissimo chords that kick off the "Eroica" came across like punchy, restless calls to attention.
It's a gleaming jewel of a love song: in the penultimate hook, a Hank Marvin-soloe solo and a perfectly judged, one-off minor chord give the kind of one-two combination punch that can, if you're listening to it in the right (or should that be wrong?) frame of mind, leave you breathless.
