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a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together- In her first day learning the guitar, she has learned how to play G major, C major, and D major chords.
- Its tremendous chords held all the sorrow and all the strength of the people of the city.Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember
- There you have something—the deep chords beating, beating, while the melody runs on the strings like little footsteps.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- The deep, rumbling chords of the song filled Harken Square.Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember
- Wasn't no bigger'n a bug first time he give me C chord.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- You can do anything with a harmonica: thin reedy single tone, or chords, or melody with rhythm chords.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- You can do anything with a harmonica: thin reedy single tone, or chords, or melody with rhythm chords.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- Somewhere in the camp a guitar sounded, slow chords, struck without any sequence, practice chords.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- Somewhere in the camp a guitar sounded, slow chords, struck without any sequence, practice chords.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- Many men can chord a guitar, but perhaps this man was a picker.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- Playing a reel and tapping out the tune, and the big deep strings of the guitar beating like a heart, and the harmonica's sharp chords and the skirl and squeal of the fiddle.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- Like Arya's mind, music ran through this one: deep amber-gold chords that throbbed with magisterial melancholy.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- The harmonica knocked teeth, wheezing, Dad hocked forth great chords of squeeze-eyed hilarity, turning in a circle, jumping up to kick his heels.Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- In the distance, Bryan heard a few hesitant, amateur guitar chords.Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
- The low voice, deep, sweet as an old chord, faltered and broke and failed.Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
- I have felt the vibration of chords in your nature that I have continually felt the want of in his.George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- Do what he would, the chord of eagerness vibrated.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- Now Kurt's playing an experimental chord.Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble
- It was as if Dinah had put her hands unawares on a vibrating chord.George Eliot -- Adam Bede
- Yet, ironically, something Mr. Bourne said struck a chord with this court.Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
chords = notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
chords = a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
chords = notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
chord = a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
chords = a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
chords = a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
chords = a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
chords = a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
chord = a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
chords = a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together
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