1.   The big feller had struck up the opening chords of his set, the last one of the evening.

2.   I distinctly heard the triumphal opening chords of Also sprach Zarathustra in my mind.

3.   Does anyone hear the opening chords of a cacophonous campaign for the Republican presidential nomination?

4.   He sang conversationally and in clumps of words, delivering entire lines before he even plucked an opening chord on his Spanish guitar.

5.   I would construct an opening chord for a violin concerto in my head and then I would wonder just who I could send it to.

6.   Normally at rock concerts, crowds cheer with recognition when the opening chord progression of a hit song is played.

7.   The quartet proceeds with dignified formality, but its calm opening chord progression becomes a foreboding welter of notes before the opening phrase is finished.

8.   Then the John Williams music starts, the opening chords so unmistakable that movie audiences burst into applause.

9.   With the opening chords, Anthony bounded onto center stage, a slight figure in suspenders and wire-rimmed glasses.

10.   In the Brahms third movement, she softens the opening chords that are usually played more vigorously.