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What notes can be double stopped?
Quite obviously, most double stops where one note is an open string are easy. Apart from that, the safest double stops are generally major and minor sixths; you can use these in almost any context provided both individual notes are in the range of the cello – i.e. the lower note at least C2, the higher one at most ≈A5.
Are double stops dyads?
Double stops can also be considered chord fragments, which make them ideal to outline chord progressions and create solid consonant hooks and riffs. Two note chords are also referred to as dyads, however those are typically root and fifth power chord ideas that are played as a solid unit.
Are double stops chords?
A double-stop is nothing more than two notes that you play at the same time. It falls somewhere between a single note (one note) and a chord (three or more notes). ... You don't need to do anything special in fretting the notes of a double-stop. Fret them the same way that you do chords or single notes.
