Re: [Finale] guitar/TAB question
At 10:36 PM -0400 4/30/06, Darcy James Argue wrote: You want the guitarist to tune their top E string up by *eight semitones*??? I'm not a guitarist, but my strong suspicion is there's no way to do that without serious risk of breaking the string. It sounds like this part is not playable on a guitar without an extended fretboard. Other fretted instruments (i.e. viol and lute) can easily play above the frets. Can classical guitars? Can electric guitars? Darcy's right; the strings will break. John -- John Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] guitar/TAB question
You want the guitarist to tune their top E string up by *eight semitones*??? I'm not a guitarist, but my strong suspicion is there's no way to do that without serious risk of breaking the string. It sounds like this part is not playable on a guitar without an extended fretboard. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 30 Apr 2006, at 10:26 PM, Cecil Rigby wrote: Hi all- A guitar part I'm working on has notes outside (above) the range of a standard six-string instrument with normal tuning. The highest note is eight frets above playable (assuming a standard 20-fret instrument). Is the most common solution a retuning of the strings (when an instrument without the needed extension isn't available)? If so, is there a secondary tuning that is more common than another for such situations, or do I just retune as many frets upward as necessary for that one string and know the average guitarist can handle it? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] guitar/TAB question
Hi Darcy- yep, that's what the composer wants, and I thought was too much as well. My only experience is with my ukelelee and dulcimer, and I know I wouldn't try tuning that high on either of those, but I'm not as knowledgeable about guitars.. I'm wondering whether the use of a few harmonics isn't in order here as the next possible solution. Any takers on whether that's a technique an average church guitarist can handle with ease? Cecil Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) www.harrockhall.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] guitar/TAB question You want the guitarist to tune their top E string up by *eight semitones*??? I'm not a guitarist, but my strong suspicion is there's no way to do that without serious risk of breaking the string. It sounds like this part is not playable on a guitar without an extended fretboard. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 30 Apr 2006, at 10:26 PM, Cecil Rigby wrote: Hi all- A guitar part I'm working on has notes outside (above) the range of a standard six-string instrument with normal tuning. The highest note is eight frets above playable (assuming a standard 20-fret instrument). Is the most common solution a retuning of the strings (when an instrument without the needed extension isn't available)? If so, is there a secondary tuning that is more common than another for such situations, or do I just retune as many frets upward as necessary for that one string and know the average guitarist can handle it? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] guitar/TAB question
Hi all- I didn't think of this--- the guitar's a transposing instrument, normally notated an octave higher than it sounds. The composer gave me the correct notation, but the TAB feature doesn't take the transposition into account when figuring the fret numbers. One has to tranpose the scratch staff before moving it to the TAB staff. So, in this case the highest note uses fret 18, not 28! All is well, therefor- but I've learned some things about Finale's TAB features I never had to use before! so all's not lost. Cecil Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) www.harrockhall.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] A guitar part I'm working on has notes outside (above) the range of a standard six-string instrument with normal tuning. The highest note is eight frets above playable (assuming a standard 20-fret instrument). ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
