Darcy James Argue / 05.3.4 / 08:36 PM wrote:
>I put the low A for the
>tenor in parentheses so the player knows what the contour of the line
>is, even if he can't play that note.
I occasionally write low A with a note "thigh" next to it :-)
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston,
Actually, in the most recent grammy awards, the first "Hawaiian Music"
grammy went to "Slack Key Guitar, Vol 2" which an album consisting totally
of what most call "drop tuning". In Hawai'i, we call it "slack key" or "ki
ho'alu".
Slack key playing is an art in itself, and tunings can be quite pers
Christopher Smith wrote:
And of course everyone's favourite country-jazz guitarist, Pat Metheny.
Some of his chords, too, are positively unplayable on a normally-tuned
instrument.
Nah - they'er *simple*!
If you're double-jointed, and have 16 inch long fingers.
:)
On Mar 5, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 05 Mar 2005, at 11:18 AM, Chuck Israels wrote:
And John Denver is alleged to have used a scordatura tuning for his
guitar, allowing him to play figurations that would have been
unplayable in normal guitar tuning.
Not so unusual for guitarist
On 05 Mar 2005, at 11:18 AM, Chuck Israels wrote:
And John Denver is alleged to have used a scordatura tuning for his
guitar, allowing him to play figurations that would have been
unplayable in normal guitar tuning.
Not so unusual for guitarists.
Yes -- as Chuck said, that's a wee bit of an under
On Mar 4, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Ken Moore wrote:
I don't think of all cases of tuning a lower string down as scordatura.
I associate that with notation that tells you where to put your
fingers,
but because the string is tuned in a non-standard manner, the pitch
that
comes out is not the one notated.
> "...In a few cases the actual sounding notes in a
> scordatura piece are given by the composer, and the player must work
> out his own fingering [examples given], but 'sounding-notation' is
> impractical for the player, and consequently it has seldom been used."
'Actual sounding notes' is the mo
Six-string or five-string electric basses are now common in pop music, and I wonder how they are tuned.
Low B, high C- 4ths all the way.
And John Denver is alleged to have used a scordatura tuning for his guitar, allowing him to play figurations that would have been unplayable in normal guit
John Howell wrote:
Six-string or five-string electric basses are now common in pop music,
and I wonder how they are tuned. And John Denver is alleged to have
used a scordatura tuning for his guitar, allowing him to play
figurations that would have been unplayable in normal guitar tuning.
My reg
At 9:53 PM + 3/4/05, Ken Moore wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roger Satorra
writes:
You're talking about a scordatura.
I don't think of all cases of tuning a lower string down as scordatura.
I associate that with notation that tells you where to put your fingers,
but because the string i
On 04 Mar 2005, at 4:53 PM, Ken Moore wrote:
In "Metamorphosen" he puts low F# into violin parts, but the brackets
around them indicate that he doesn't really expect them to be played
and
that they are doubled by violas.
I actually did that once with a tenor sax doubling a trombone line.
The lin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Roger Satorra
writes:
>You're talking about a scordatura.
I don't think of all cases of tuning a lower string down as scordatura.
I associate that with notation that tells you where to put your fingers,
but because the string is tuned in a non-standard manner, the p
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