Re: How many of you play 3rd-less chords?
No expert here but... I read this as a mix of several thoughts, which makes the reason behind the question unclear.
- Some Celtic music is known to be "modal", with at least some passages being neither major nor minor.
- Some rock music, and some (much?) Gregorian chant, is based on "power-5" chords, w/ no third, although I suspect that major or minor thirds show up in the vocals or whatever.
- Playing all notes of a chord (now assuming more standard Western music: pop, rock, roots, even classical) is far from a requirement for ANY instrument. Heck, just look at some piano arrangements and you'd see that the backing tones can be exceedingly sparse, even while the underlying tonality persists in the listener's perception.
So I'd guess that most have played 3rd-less chords at sometime or other, just maybe not often or intentionally, which probabaly doesn't answer the question.
BTW, jazz players are more likely to leave out the 5th and/or the root, making sure to get the major/minor tonality, plus some or all extensions. As in: "That's what the bass player is for."
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