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copied!<p>I've been wanting to write a music program for a while, but I don't really know that much about programming so that probably won't happen. The goal of this program at first would be to represent guitar chords with letter names (Ex: CMaj = CEG) and there could be a few different types of chords (majors, minors, diminished, etc.) To make this the easiest, I think I'm going to start with a C major scale because in that there are no sharps or flats. My first chord would probably be a C major, which is the 1st, 3rd, and 5th of the scale ( <strong>C</strong> D <strong>E</strong> F <strong>G</strong> A B ). My question is, using strings and characters (or some other way, I'm kind of guessing), is there a way to represent C as String(?) C, where C=1, D=2, E=3,..etc. so that when the program inputs for a major chord, it requests the 1st, 3rd and fifth of the respective scale? So basically the user picks the chord C Maj, which converts to 1, 3, 5, and then the scales are matched up and the program calls those 3 specific intervals of that scale.</p> <p>Any help would be appreciated, or a different way to think about this entirely.</p> <p>Using what little knowledge I've had, I used <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/enum.html" rel="nofollow">Oracles</a> website and found their example of enumeration and put this together: </p> <pre><code>public enum Chord { CHORD, MAJOR, MINOR, DIMINISHED, BASS, BASS2 </code></pre> <p>}</p> <pre><code>public enum Scales { C, D, E, F, G, A </code></pre> <p>}</p> <pre><code>public class EnumTest { Chord chord; public EnumTest(Chord chord) { this.chord = chord; } public void tellItLikeItIs() { switch (chord) { case MAJOR: System.out.println("C, E, G"); break; case MINOR: System.out.println("C, Eb, G"); break; default: System.out.println("I screwed up"); break; } } public static void main(String[] args) { EnumTest firstDay = new EnumTest(Chord.MAJOR); firstDay.tellItLikeItIs(); EnumTest thirdDay = new EnumTest(Chord.MINOR); thirdDay.tellItLikeItIs(); } </code></pre> <p>}</p> <p>I still don't understand, using Olivers example, how to specify when I make a C major chord that I want the 1st, 3rd, and 5th value of the Scales enum. I like the idea about using the semi-tones from C and building off each chord, but I couldn't figure out how to put the #s into the Scales class (illegal character).. So basically my question is how do I get the Chord class to get the scale degrees from the Scales class and plug it into the EnumTest class?</p> <p>(If there is somewhere else I can go and ask dumb questions without bugging people I can try asking there =p)</p>

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