Re: [tablatures] open tunings

[Carl Sorensen <c_sorensen@xxxxxxx>]

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))
> 
> 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.

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
> 
> 
> Maybe we could make a "survey" in the users' mailing list and see what
> people need..
> 
> 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