Today’s Chord, and the Move It Makes
The network’s pick for today, read the way this site reads any chord: as the move a chord like it makes most often in the corpus, then shown making it in a line.
Today’s shared network chord, read the way this site reads any chord: as the move a chord of its kind makes most often across the corpus, then shown making that move in a corpus line moved into the key that puts it there.
How the reading works
Every Warrior site draws the same chord each day from one shared seed, and the instrument sites show where the fingers go. Here the pick is asked what this site asks of any chord: what move does it make? A single chord makes no move on its own, so the page asks the corpus instead. It counts every move the reader finds on a chord of the pick’s own kind across the corpus of lines, a dominant seventh counting the moves dominant sevenths make. When no line in the corpus has a move on that exact kind of chord, a major seventh say, it counts every chord with the same triad, major or minor. The move counted most often is the reading; when two of them share the count, the one declared first is taken and the other is named. A chord with no third, a sus chord, makes none of the declared moves, and the page says so.
The line it is shown in
The page then takes the first corpus line where that move is made on such a chord and moves every chord in it by the same interval, so that today’s chord stands exactly where the move happens, in the chord symbol it was picked as. The reader reads that line like any other you could type into the reader, key, numerals and moves, and the move has to fire on today’s chord in the result; if a seventh or an added note tips the line into another key, the next corpus line is tried.
Where the pick comes from
One seed, shared by every site in the network, turning over once a day. Nothing is personalised and nothing is chosen by hand: the date decides, the same for everyone. The calculation runs in your browser against your own local date, which is why this text describes the method rather than naming a chord; if it is still yesterday where you are, you are looking at yesterday’s chord, and that is the right one.