Today’s Chord, One Voice Away
Today’s chord for the whole network, measured here like any other: every chord a single voice reaches a semitone or a whole tone away, and how far each voice lies from yesterday’s chord.
Every chord one voice of today’s pick reaches, a semitone or a whole tone away, with what each spells, and each of its voices set beside the nearest note of yesterday’s chord.
How the reading works
Every Warrior site draws the same chord each day, and the instrument sites show where it sits under the hands. Here it is read as a set of pitch classes, the way the calculator reads any chord: one voice at a time steps a semitone or a whole tone while the others hold. Each step that lands on notes some chord type spells is listed, a semitone first, then a whole tone, with every chord it spells linked to the calculator and any transform a cited source names linked to its own page. A major or minor triad has eight such neighbours, five a semitone away and three a whole tone away, and every chord in the pool has at least four.
Set beside yesterday’s chord
Yesterday’s pick comes from the same seed, one calendar day back. Each voice of today’s chord is shown with the nearest note of yesterday’s and the step between them: a step of 0 is a common tone that was already sounding, and when two notes lie the same distance away, both are named. If the two chords hold the same number of notes, the cheapest lead between them follows, counted in semitones as the calculator counts them. If they differ in size, the calculator pairs nothing, and the nearest notes are the whole reading.
Where the pick comes from
No one here chooses it. A hash of the calendar date picks one of the twenty chords of three, four and five notes in a pool every Warrior site shares, so the chord is the same everywhere and turns over at midnight. Your browser works it out from your own local date. This text describes the method and names no chord, because a chord printed into the page would still be showing the morning after. Where it is still yesterday, yesterday’s chord is the right one.
Every chord one voice away, by type · Rank any two chords in the calculator