yes, and cursed be those who would wish to force us to play in Eb on guitar! I often wondered is those chords on some sheet music were put there by someone who has never played guitar!
Don "Laurie (ukonline)" wrote: > 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 To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
