Muse will play them. (Muse is not alone in this, in fact I think there are lots of programs that will). Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Dallas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 10:46 AM Subject: RE: [abcusers] Chords
Very interesting. Is there any way I can get my PC to play the chords (strange or otherwise) in an abc tune? Abc2win seems to ignore them. ------------------------------ Karl Dallas, HoustonMedia Please note new email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44(0)771 980 5907 Publishers of the jTechUpdate (Java), RUXPerienced (Windows XP), KD on jazz and KD on folk mailing lists. . To subscribe send email with 'subscribe' in the Subject field to . jTechUpdate: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . RUXPerienced: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . HardwareDaily: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . SoftwareDaily: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . KD on jazz: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . KD on folk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Walsh Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [abcusers] Chords Henrik Norbeck writes: >Yes, but even if you set "strangeness" in AbcMus to 100% at least >one of the notes in the chord must also be in the beat or bar it is >set to, so for instance (in key of G) |GABG| could only have the >following chords (I think): >G major, E minor, C major, B minor, D major, D minor, A major, >A minor, F major, F# minor, C minor, Eb major, G minor, B major, >E major, G# minor (the last ones are indeed pretty strange though) >But it could not have an F minor chord set to it, since none of the >notes in that chord (F Ab c) are in the music it should be set to. > I play the pipes, so, apart from the elementary chords one can get from the regulators, harmony is Someone Else's Problem; and something that seems ordinary to someone else might seem strange to me. But it's more the overall sound than the individual chords. When you crank up the strangeness on a simple Irish polka and it comes out sounding like a fugitive from the Rites of Spring, what else can you call it? I'm still grinning. Obligatory abc content: The R: field is only supposed to go in the header, according to the 1.6 spec. Now that some playback programs use this field for their stress programs, I think it should be allowed in the tune. By coincidence, the tunes I checked before posting this were in a medley: slide/polka/slip jig/polka, a bit of a joke, the joke being that the rhythm changes a couple of bars before the tune changes, e.g. the last two bars of the slide are in 2/4, the last two bars of the polka are in 9/8, etc. I'd like to use the R: field there to get the rhythm change to sound right on playback. Cheers, John Walsh P.S. For those of you who don't have Abcmus and wonder what we're talking about, (hope you don't mind, Henrik) here's Tommy Reck's Polka, with chords set by Henrik's Cyberbacker, 2 chords/bar and strangeness = 100%. (100% is overkill---you can get a number of different effects at much smaller settings, which is practical, since it suggests alternate chords to use---but we're testing the limits here.) Listen three times before making up your mind. But beware: if you listen to it too much, the ordinary accompaniment may begin to sound vapid. X:4 T:Tommy Reck's R:polka Z:J Walsh S:T. Reck M:2/4 K:D "A#"A2d2 "D#"fgfe|"D#m"d2F2 "A#"A3d|"A#m"c2E2 "G#m"G3B|"A#"A2D2 "F"F2A2|\ "A#"A2d2 "D#"fgfe|"D#m"d2F2 "A#"A3d|"F"c2A2 "D#"G2E2|"A#"F2D2 "A#"D4:| "A#"f2d2 "A#"d4|"G#m"c2B2 "G#m"B4|"G#m"e2B2 "G#m"c2B2|"F"B2A2 "F"F2A2|\ "A#"f2d2 "A#"d4|"G#m"c2B2 "G#m"B4|"G#m"B2e2 "A#m"B2c2|"F"d6 z2:| For comparison, here it is with strangeness = 0%, still 2 chords/bar. It's actually the same tune... X:4 T:Tommy Reck's R:polka S:T. Reck M:2/4 K:D "D"A2d2 "D"fgfe|"D"d2F2 "D"A3d|"A"c2E2 "G"G3B|"D"A2D2 "D"F2A2|\ "D"A2d2 "D"fgfe|"D"d2F2 "D"A3d|"F#m"c2A2 "Em"G2E2|"D"F2D2 "D"D4:| "D"f2d2 "D"d4|"F#m"c2B2 "Bm"B4|"Em"e2B2 "F#m"c2B2|"Bm"B2A2 "D"F2A2|\ "D"f2d2 "D"d4|"F#m"c2B2 "Bm"B4|"Em"B2e2 "Bm"B2c2|"D"d6 z2:| To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
