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Is this possible? (guitar related)
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Is there some kind of applet out there somewhere where you put in a note on the guitar, say string e 6th fret, and it tells you what that note is?
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http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=15782
And you can do what you're asking here
www.chordbook.com
I do have a tuner but I recently sold my guitar so I can't do that, good idea though.
e
b
g
d
a
e
This.
And for every note above "12" on the tab, subtract 12 and transcribe the result an octave up.
e ---4---
b
8----
g --5
d
a
e
So what would those notes be? And how would I determine sharps and flats?
e -> 4 is 4 half steps above e. E -> F -> F# -> G -> G#.
b -> 8 is 8 half steps above b. B -> C -> C# -> D -> D# -> E -> F -> F# -> G
g -> 5 is 5 half steps above g. G -> G# -> A -> A# -> B -> C
Sharps and flats are context determined by the key of the piece. If you just want accurate pitches, then it doesn't particularly matter.
Here's a complete list of the notes:
A -> A# -> B -> C -> C# -> D -> D# -> E -> F -> F# -> G -> G#
Or in flats:
A -> Bb -> B -> C -> Db -> D -> Eb -> F -> Gb -> G -> Ab
You can figure it out yourself, but some programs do do this. The website linked in the first response to you (chordbook) does this. You can use the Guitar Chords app on the website, and it lets you place markers on the frets you want, and at the top it tells you what note that string is now.
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Eh, I'm not really a musician or a guitarist, I just like to mess around on a keyboard.
If you can think of the software I'd like to know what it is.
I think it's more useful than you're making it out to be, but I would agree that it's much better to know the intervals.
Knowing all the notes on the fretboard is incredibly useful if you're going to be reading music.
That's a good one, thanks.
What do you mean? What note is an octave?
The octave is 12 frets up. The 12th fret is the octave, basically.
It is very easy to tell because they make the same note, just higher.
Like how the low E and high e are 2 octaves apart. It shouldn't be too hard to tell...
What?
An octave is the same note just a higher or lower pitch. For instance... if you are in standard tuning (EADGBE), notice how there are two E's? The low string is an octave higher than the high string. That's it.
2 Octaves.
I think he's trying to ask how you know which octave you're in so:
Middle C is 3rd fret 2nd string. 3rd space C in the treble clef staff is 2nd fret on the B string.
Go from there.
Also note that guitar reads on octave down. so middle C is really 2nd fret on the B string, if you're reading from a piano score or something not written for guitar.
edit: and it sounds like you don't really understand theory at all. I would strongly recommend learning theory on a keyboard or piano over a guitar - once you understand it there, it's easily transposed to other instruments.
Yeah that's what I was trying to get at.
To the above poster: you're right I don't know theory, people said I should learn it but I never wanted to be a serious "musician". It is difficult playing guitar tabs on piano but piano tabs aren't available like guitar tabs, they're off sometimes but it puts me in the right direction and I can pick up the rest by ear.
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I was looking to play songs other than just the ones played on guitar.
I know how to read music, if I find music sheets online I use those. I prefer playing by ear, but sometimes I just need to push in the right direction and I get the rest.
So I'd play the scale with seeing which fret to hit, then I'd read the scale, knowing the fingering and positions already, and look at the notes.
But keep in mind that every trick I have comes from endless amounts of theory and aural skills, as well as being a professional piano player and a senior in Music Composition. So that may just end up being frustrating and slow if you're not all that comfortable with theory and notation. Basically I just powered through learning to read on guitar.
what I meant for example, is I have a guitar pro tab of clocks by cold play. It has the piano part tabbed out in both guitar tab format and in the staff. So, you could choose to read the piano part as a guitar tab so you could feasibly play it on your guitar, or you could choose to read it in actual musical notation.
That's not a reference to a note, it's a time signature. It's actually a synonym of 4/4 time. Unless it has a vertical bar through it, in which case it means 2/2.
Search for "Time signature" on wikipedia for more info on this.
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