UncreativeName 🐡

[pseudo trout]

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[pulsar slate]

Too many dos in that sentence

[compact bobcat]

J’ai oublié le bécarre ♮

[delicate oracle]

French doesn't use letters
do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si

[lament yacht]

this is called solfège and is common in all romance language countries as far as I'm aware

the A,B,C,D,E,F,G system was German in origin, iirc

[lament yacht]

note that in French it's "sol" and not "so"
and "si" and not "ti"

[pulsar slate]

Ty all, it surprised me when I first heard of that because in english it's just kind of a vocal warmup lol (at least among the average person idk im not a musician)

Is that consistent for things like chord notation? For example Cm7 or something

[lament yacht]

No clue for chord notation, but definitely for notes, e.g. sol dièse, si bémol, etc.

[compact bobcat]

Sol majeur 7 ? 🤔

[lament yacht]

I don't know music theory…

[lofty steeple]

i think that could work in a fixed solfège system, but in movable you probably just use chord numbers

I-II-IV for example

[next otter]

I was also curious about this so I looked up some guitar chords in french and this was what I found:

Seems like you'd still use the usual chord notation as in GMaj7 but pronounce it as either "Sol 7ème majeure" or "Sol majeur 7"

[real imp]

Fun fact: we use 'H' instead of 'B'.

Easy mistake to make, to be fair.

[lament yacht]

bh