Re: [tablatures] open tunings

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Marc Hohl schrieb:

Carl Sorensen schrieb:


On 9/16/09 2:12 PM, "Federico Bruni" <brunology@xxxxxxx> wrote:


Marc Hohl wrote:

Carl Sorensen schrieb:
Marc has moved the tunings from scm/output-lib.scm to scm/tablature.scm 
effective with 2.13.4.  He's also added  drop-d and open-g tunings,
but open
D is not there yet (except for the banjo).  I'm sure that he'll be
happy to
add any tunings that you think would be useful.

Yes, of course. I didn't use open tunings very often, but providing
useful definitions is easy. In 2.13.4, we have the following tunings
defined:

(define-public guitar-tuning '(4 -1 -5 -10 -15 -20))
(define-public guitar-seven-string-tuning '(4 -1 -5 -10 -15 -20 -25))
(define-public guitar-drop-d-tuning '(4 -1 -5 -10 -15 -22))
(define-public guitar-open-g-tuning '(2 -1 -5 -10 -17 -22))
;; bass tunings
(define-public bass-tuning '(-17 -22 -27 -32))
(define-public bass-four-string-tuning '(-17 -22 -27 -32))
(define-public bass-drop-d-tuning '(-17 -22 -27 -34))
(define-public bass-five-string-tuning '(-17 -22 -27 -32 -37))
(define-public bass-six-string-tuning '(-12 -17 -22 -27 -32 -37))
;; mandolin
(define-public mandolin-tuning '(16 9 2 -5))
;; tunings for 5-string banjo
(define-public banjo-open-g-tuning '(2 -1 -5 -10 7))
(define-public banjo-c-tuning '(2 -1 -5 -12 7))
(define-public banjo-modal-tuning '(2 0 -5 -10 7))
(define-public banjo-open-d-tuning '(2 -3 -6 -10 9))
(define-public banjo-open-dm-tuning '(2 -3 -6 -10 9))

Please send the tunings you want to be included; I can
create a patch so that they will be included in the next release.

Marc

Great!
I would add these two tunings, which are pretty popular:

(define-public guitar-open-d-tuning '(2 -3 -6 -10 -15 -22))
(define-public guitar-dadgad-tuning '(2 -3 -7 -10 -15 -22))

Ok.

There are many more (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_tunings),
but these are the most used..
As far as I can see, the Lower and Higher tunings shown on Wikipedia aren't very interesting; they just transpose the guitar. Somebody who wants one of 
those could write their own.
Yes - normally, Lower tunings are often written as if the guitar is tuned normally 
to avoid tons of accidentals.

Perhaps we should add

(define-public guitar-lute-tuning '(4 -1 -6 -10 -15 -20))

for the Renaissance lute tuning*:* E-A-d-f?-b-e'
Similarly, only the Drop D tuning is unique; the other Drop tunings are just 
transpositions of Drop D.

The open tunings may be interesting to add, as well as the cross-note,
modal, extended, and miscellaneous tunings.  Of course, with these 30+
tunings, I have no idea how many are really likely to be used...


Personally, I'm also interested in this tuning (just because one of my
favorite guitarists uses it a lot):
Asus4: low-high; E-A-D-E-A-E

Are numbers allowed? As it is a scheme expression, I think we can do

(define-public guitar-asus4-tuning '(4 -3 -8 -10 -15 -20))




Maybe we could make a "survey" in the users' mailing list and see what
people need..
I don't think that we'll gather a lot more proposals, but we could do so anyway ... 

Marc
It looks as if 2.13.4 is just about to being released, so I did a small patch with 
open-d, dadgad, lute and asus4.

Carl, would you push this patch, please?

Thanks,

Marc

Hope the building system will be fixed soon, I look forward to try the
next version.
There's a current release of 2.13.4 on OSX, and one currently being made for mingw, so I expect that we're very close to the official release for 2.13.4. 

Carl

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