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Topic: Playing in tune is more technique/trick than tuning method |
Bo Legg
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Posted 30 Aug 2012 11:36 am |
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When we talk about playing in tune it seems to go instantly to how to tune instead of the techniques and tricks to sound in tune while your playing regardless of how you tune.
I’ve found that as I go up the neck I have to fudge a little above the fret marker to sound in tune.
I’ve found that when I play on the lower strings and lower frets I have to fudge back from the fret mark slightly.
I’ve noticed I will fudge differently with the same chord grip if I use it say as an A6 and then an F#m.
Is these common or just my ear? |
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Ransom Beers
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Posted 30 Aug 2012 12:19 pm
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| Is it you that's out of tune or is it the piccolo player? |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 30 Aug 2012 1:14 pm
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Q: How many bluegrass musicians does it take to tune a five-string banjo?
A: Nobody knows, it's never been done!
Fact is, the pedal steel guitar is only one of the vast majority of musical instruments that cannot be perfectly tuned at all, but require the player to make the constant adjustments to actually PLAY them in tune. |
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Ransom Beers
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Posted 30 Aug 2012 2:41 pm
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Whats the difference between a banjo & a chainsaw:Vibrato  |
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Bo Legg
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Posted 1 Sep 2012 10:28 am
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| So you need a $trobe to show you how precisely you can tune to still be out of tune. |
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Dickie Whitley
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Posted 1 Sep 2012 10:50 am
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| I think it may have been Jeff Newman who said that the frets lie. All the fret means is that the note(s) are around in this area somewhere. Your ears have to tell you where. That's why I've always believed the tuning method is irrelevant, it is whether you can play in tune with the band or tracks or whatever you use with that tuning that is important. |
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Niels Andrews
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Salinas, California, USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2012 7:55 am
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I think what Bo is experiencing is Parallax. From where you view your hand position it appears either up or down from the fret, but he is right in saying it is a matter of constant adjustment. A lot like olaying bends on a spanish guitar, it is a matter of feel for the proper pitch.
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 2 Sep 2012 9:48 am
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I think most people who have been playing for a while make the same decision I did, which was (after 30 years of slide guitar, even) to spend some time WORKING REALLY REALLY HARD ON BEING IN TUNE. And after spending 20 or 30 minutes a day on playing with and against drones, working to make you bar movements faster and more accurate, for however many months it takes - you end up with an "ear" that makes half the great albums you grew up with almost painful to hear!
It will provide you with a much better understanding of how tone and "in-tuneness" are interrelated, and it may clear up some slop if you had it, but you'll never be able to tune a six-string "perfectly" again. It took me years before I was able to listen to "Sketches of Spain" again, because Miles at that point was experimenting very heavily with that exact tone and "in-tuneness" thing. No Mr. Davis, they can't ALL be "blue" notes... |
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