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by Wolfenstein98k 97 days ago
Not really, because notes do double duty.

You might play a G# note in the context of an E chord (where it's the third), and then you might play it in the context of a C# (where it's the fifth).

These are discernably different pitches, but the same "note", in the same key, in the same song!