Re: Guitars with capos

2014-02-02 Thread Wols Lists
On 01/02/14 08:05, Federico Bruni wrote: 2014/2/1 Rachael Thomas Carlson r...@sleeplimited.org mailto:r...@sleeplimited.org Sometimes the standard notation is at sounding pitch and sometimes it is at pitch as if there were no capo. In all books I know (staff + tabstaff) I always

Re: Guitars with capos

2014-02-02 Thread Tom Cloyd
On 01/31/2014 09:53 PM, Rachael Thomas Carlson wrote: In standard notation (without tabulature) you will often find that the music is written with the pitch notated as if there wasn't a capo. Very rarely will you find music that is written at sounding pitch with a capo. I'm a classic

Re: Guitars with capos

2014-02-01 Thread Federico Bruni
2014/2/1 Rachael Thomas Carlson r...@sleeplimited.org Sometimes the standard notation is at sounding pitch and sometimes it is at pitch as if there were no capo. In all books I know (staff + tabstaff) I always see the latter: pitch as if it were no capo. I use transpose in the midi block so

Re: Guitars with capos

2014-02-01 Thread Hilary Snaden
On 2014-02-01 04:53, Rachael Thomas Carlson wrote: Hello Hilary: Hello Rachael and other contributors Please excuse a short notation question! This is a fun question! [...] In all cases, one will find that there is an indication of the use of a capo in the area of the top of the score that

Re: Guitars with capos

2014-02-01 Thread Johan Vromans
Hilary Snaden h...@newearth.demon.co.uk writes: Transposing seemed the most intuitive solution, but it's good to hear what real guitarists prefer. I'd gone with Capo on 4 above the first bar of the guitar part, it's now Capo on IV. I'm acquainted to Capo 4 but I guess it's a matter of taste.

Guitars with capos

2014-01-31 Thread Hilary Snaden
Please excuse a short notation question! What's the preferred way of notating music for a guitar with capo? Sounding pitch, or as a transposing instrument (so that a guitar capoed on the third fret is effectively a guitar in E flat)? -- Hilary ___

Re: Guitars with capos

2014-01-31 Thread Rachael Thomas Carlson
Hello Hilary: Please excuse a short notation question! This is a fun question! What's the preferred way of notating music for a guitar with capo? Sounding pitch, or as a transposing instrument (so that a guitar capoed on the third fret is effectively a guitar in E flat)? This would depend