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I was looking at some sheet music and there was an asterisk by the chord symbol above the music. Below the tab the asterisk indicated that the “chord symbols reflect the implied harmony.”  What are they telling me? I can see that most of the melody notes are chord tones of the chord shown.

After hours of searching, the only thing I have found is that the chord symbol is providing addition information, for example the song is in the key of E, but the implied harmony of the song is  “Actually related to the chord E7”. That is why the the melody notes align  with the “implied harmony”  than the key, for example the the key of  E doesn’t have  Db. The Db comes from the E7 chord and the melody notes contain the flatted D.

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