One reason for preferring sharps for guitar chords is that if they are actually to be played on a *guitar*, you can always move a shape up the neck by a fret, so that I can immediately think of several ways to play A#. Of course they need barlocks, but there's not always a way round that. On the other hand the chords of Ab, Db, Eb, Gb and for that matter Cb all require a mental shifting of gears to avoid having to use fret number minus one.
I'm pleased to say that in Muse the option to force the guitar chords into sharps is indeed optional. Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Atte Andre Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [abcusers] iabc, and features expected in softwares in general On 22 Jun 2002, Laura Conrad wrote: > >>>>> "laurie" == laurie griffiths <Laurie> writes: > > laurie> Why does transposition need to understand the mode? > > Currently, the abc2midi transposer only understands the key > signature. So if I have a piece in D dorian, and I transpose it up 3 > half notes, the transposed output is in Ab. It should be in F dorian. And even worse: most (all?) guitar-chords with a black-key root is translated into sharp rooted version: X:1 T:test M:4/4 L:1/4 C:Atte K:C "C"CDEF | "Bb7"GFED | "Ab7"C4 | "G7"z4 Becomes this after "abc2abc org.abc -t 2" (the A#7 should have been Bb7): X: 1 T:test M:4/4 L:1/4 C:Atte K:D "D"DEFG | "C7"AGFE | "A#7"D4 | "A7"z4 although "abc2abc org.abc -t 5" is ok: X: 1 T:test M:4/4 L:1/4 C:Atte K:F "F"FGAB | "Eb7"cBAG | "Db7"F4 | "C7"z4 Maybe it's because my harmonies are more chromatic than my melodies, but I fell the most transposition hickups by abc2abc is in the guitar-chords... -- love, peace & harmony Atte 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
