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
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
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.
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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
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
