I've been trying to figure out exactly what notes are being played (piano part)for various chords and have come across some surprising things. For about 1/3 of the possible chord types, it seems that the root is not played by the piano (or guitar?). For example, displaying piano chords when...
It seems that if I want a C major triad, I just use the notation C. C^ which should also give the triad actually gives a C^7 (according to the piano chords display). I don't have a problem with that, but it seems to be an inconsistency in the notation.