Confusing Chord Symbols: Swedish & French Studio Chart Stories

#jaygraydon #guitar #musicproduction #recording #musicmastery #jaketherake #allthingsmusic #education Ever run across a chord symbol during a session that completely stopped you in your tracks? In this video, I share a couple of classic studio moments—from deciphering an "H minor 7 flat 5" on a chart (turns out, in Sweden, B is H! to dealing with French shortcut symbols like a 7 with a line through it for major 7th chords. Sight-reading confusing charts like these is exactly why I have developed my own chord notation system to keep things crystal clear. In traditional European musical notation, the letter H stands for B-natural, while the letter B stands for B-flat. In this video I am telling you about the first time I encountered those older music notation standards. Sweden and most of Scandinavia mostly use the standard international English system nowadays, where B means B-natural and Bb means B-flat. You will still find the old "H" system in older Swedish print or Germanic-influenced classical charts. Have you ever encountered a weird chord symbol on a chart? Let me know in the comments!