is it on your iphone? i have one or two of those as well. try entering this chord, your basic g there, with just one extra note added, and see how many additional descriptions it comes up with...

the 'no 5' means 'no 5th in the chord'. and just about any chord you care to mention can be 'named' in at least one other way.

naming of chords is, just about, always relative. it has to do with where and in what key you're playing it, among other things. that is just about as much as i can go into now, without getting into too much detail. just enough to confuse you, without confusing myself.

good luck, feel free to ask more and i'll try my best to answer. whatever i can't, someone else here will be able to, i'm sure.

peace
out

nah, no iphone. I use Guitar Pro to build chords when I need to do that.

Thanks for explaining the "No5" thing. I was reading it as "No" being an abbreviation for "Number", so I was thinking "Number 5" and wondering what happened to the other 4 heh

How do you get the chord chart on there?

I wondered about that too! How to make and insert the chord charts

Press one of the tools below your post. You can choose either the "Insert a Chord Chart" or "Insert a Scale/Sequence Chart".

Examples:
Just fill in the dots and you get:

A7sus9

or

G Major

OK then

Fun isn't it???

That little sequence did not turn out quite as I imagined.
I made a chord and not a sequence.

If I ever get a handle on this, could play "name that riff" !

You are having to much fun now Ken - lol. Use the preview button to check if you have made any mistakes and then you can correct them as necessary.

How many notes??? lol

yep.. it is fun!

I like Powertab too

Oh that is cool!

Very interesting Brent regarding a standard G major chord (G,B,D). Anyway the program probably inverted the chord giving it, it's new name. Normally with the chords appearance, it would be called G Major. If we rearrange the letters or go to the second inversion of "G" we get D-G-B. It is still a "G" chord but with the 5th in the bass.

As for funky name it gave "Dsus4add13 (no5)", D would be the root, B is the 4th and G is the 13th. Suspention chords usually contain the 5th, in this case "A" which is missing, hence "no5".

I hope that helps....

I put that one in, and it's the same thing since you just changed the B to a D which was already there from the open D string. Guitar Pro didn't see a difference in the two.

Ahh the flaws of computer programs. The programmers will need to fix that one as the sequence of code definately has a flaw - maybe????

probably. ;-)