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by Jean Banwarth9/25/2025
Chord arrangement: D-D-D-A | Bm-Bm-Bm-A | G | A-A/C# | D | Bm-A | G | A // D | G-A | Bm | A |
D | G-A | Bm | A-A/C#-D
Jean Banwarth[https://youtu.be/qEsvY1W6kQo](https://youtu.be/qEsvY1W6kQo)
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Adam-Francis: Something that I do in such cases is simplify a bit and either use the majority chord for the entire measure, or, make the chord change a little prematurely on beat 3 to have only the measure split into 2 chords instead of 4.
Still pleasing to the ear and saves on crowding the measure. Hope that helps.
Adam-Francis: Unfortunately this is the only way to do it for now.
Will definitely make a note of this though as something to consider optimising in the future.
Thanks for raising the issue Jean
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Jean Banwarth: I wonder if there is a way to place a chord on the fourth beat (for example the A of measure 1), without burdening the score with the three preceding D...
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