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Originally Posted by Huinesoron
Now, I didn't even know fifth chords existed until now (only sevenths), but luckily they also give some saner chords. Like D! D is cool. They give D as 232000.
Wikipedia has an article on this, which also provides D... as 000232.
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Do they make more sense if you read them backwards? 
Yep! Here's Am as 577555 from an English-language source. Apparently Russians just write their chords backwards from the English-speaking world. |
You know, you might be onto something there. Because D can very much be played X00232. Whereas 232000 to me reads as F#-C-E-G-B-E, where literally the only note that belongs in D major is F#, maybe C if you make it into D7. And looking at these notes make me think of C major with an F# and a B natural slammed on top, or alternatively an E minor with an extra F# and a C, both of which make it sound like someone headdesked the piano (and what I really felt like doing after going through the cipher and getting similar gibberish). Let me try doing this backwards then:
Forest is worn line:
Am5 is fine
558775 = A-E-Eb/D#-A-E-A (which is much better than previous gibberish but E and Eb are still a weird combo)
I had to flee line:
323200 = G-Db-Bb-E-A-E (which actually makes Gdim7 with an A added on top)
656500 = Bb-E-Db-G-A-E (same thing: these are all notes of Gdim7 except for the A)
But this is a lot better than what I had previously, e.g. for the first "flee" chord: G-B-F-A-B-E - or, in other words, EFGAB, 5 notes in succession, which is a chord you might hear when someone headdesks the keyboard in frustration.
I think you fixed it. <3
(I will have to look up suspended chords, but diminisheds are beautiful things for resolutions into a minor key. I stuck them in several places previously because they made sense and sounded nice. That stuff is good stuff. I trust that stuff.)
ETA: what I now actually find amusing is that occasionally - very rarely, but just often enough to give me hope that I might be on the right track after all - there would be a chord that might have actually made sense as not quite harmonious but plausible thing, something akin to a X5 or X4 or something. Monkeys with typewriters do spell out "oksfordte dictoinnearie" without having to sit there an infinite amount of time, I suppose.
ETA #2: these flipped chords are a lot better to work with. So far I made it as far as "forthcoming death", with dissonance - but a more controlled sort of dissonance. I might not have to escape to Nargothrond after all, unless I jinx it.
ETA#3: Lol. Searched some of these chord-codes on google.ru to see if I can find confirmation of which notes are meant to be dissonant. First thing that comes up is a site with the chords for "Meeting". :/