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Posted: 27 Nov 2020 1:11 pm
by Fred Treece
Bill M - The link I got was to a 454 line chart on chord intervals and positions for your E-Harp tuning. The one you just posted is more along the lines of what I was suggesting, and much more sensible than my psg interval chart, which is so weird I don’t even want to have to explain it.
Now how many people just think in intervals?
Posted: 27 Nov 2020 3:36 pm
by Tommy Martin Young
It just may be that I'm lazy or that I started musical life as a harmonica player- where I've never "seen" notes - but I've always pictured and transcribed the fretboard in intervals of the key signature (although for fun I'll sometimes transcribe the chord changes relative to their root just so I see the process and logic...aka arpeggios)
Autopsying a song in any one of 12 potential keys would quickly overload the floppy disk in my brain - whereas most songs in a particular genre (when seen numerically) adhere to certain recognizable patterns. To me a D-note has no context until I see/hear it as the I, or b3 or #5 etc and I easily know why it's there to fulfill its purpose. So that may come back to my viewing of the fretboard in "Positions" - my root note (or Center) is always on one of 4 strings (for 99.9% of 6th tunings) vs starting on one of 12 potential Root notes.