chorfing a guitar

moderator Joined: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 333

today friend is came at home with its guitar the problem is that the strings are used and that he want i tune each string by reference the the one above...this only give note per note good playing....chords sucks...can someone give me an absolut way to chord a classic guitar...my friend can hear like A-4 C-6 ect...and i just could helped him that it's note per note melodies sound good ... gorgatron ???

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:15 pm

i'm not sure how to restring a classical guitar. i've done it once. i would have that done professionally, and observe the technician as he does it. as for tuning a guitar of any kind, i have a very simple solution...for between $20-50, you can buy a tuner for your guitar. all you have to know is the names of the strings. the tuner then tells you how far off you are from the target 440 tuning. you just turn the tuning pegs accordingly.

from top to bottom the strings are as follows"

E, A, D, G, B, E

a good tuner will be setup to do each string individually. it really is pretty simple. if you can tune by ear, and know which octave each string should have, you can do it by ear with a keyboard. i shouldn't attempt this unless you have a very, very fine tuned ear for the guitar. i use a tuner and then tweak the tuning by checking tones off other strings to make sure the intonation is the same with each string. nothing worse than be theoretically in-tune, but find out that as you get down the neck, some tones are off with respect to others.

that's about the easiest way i can explain it. let me know if you have other questions or need clarification. Very Happy

moderator Joined: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 333

thanks gorgatron , i don't need a tuner i have a studio lol Smile

and i don't need it short because of my friend can't say me what note has to be on the string...but now it's perfect....i will do perfectly...the note by note melodies sounded well but an octave seemed to be shift or something weird with that folk string my friend as mounted on its classic guitar, a great foolish belong my father that said me it would destroy psyshicaly the guitar...thanks a lot gorgatron i will chord this lame guitar tommorow at my friend's home. Smile

bless

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:15 pm

yeah, steel strings (western strings) can really damage a classical guitar. the string tension is much more on the western strings.

even with a studio, i would recommend a tuner, unless you know the octaves of the acoustic guitar strings. still, it's something you train your ear to as well. i hope it works out for you.

moderator Joined: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 333

yes i can tune an instrument without a tuner with no problem but my friends is a begginer and just don't know what are the octave and he just don't want to learn conservatory learning, he's on a sympatic manual way to discover the guitar art...i can whistle you in tune the song you want with my mouth since the age of 9 but never been interested playing an instrument, i do record some synth patterns with my synth for phrasing features but always feeled music better when whisling it because it goes stronger in my mind, i'm listening, feeling, tracking with my mouth the melody of the song and i feel total harmony, if you'd like i could record a whisled track of the song you wan't (do not ask chord nobody on hearth can whisle it, i mean choose a song, send it to me and i give you my whisled by mouth appreciation as an accompagment or like a solo...i think you should try as it would cost you nothing.i can also sing all vocal tracks except hip hop that have most of the time no intersting notes in the vocals but that mostly need tempo and soundform work...for an example i can sing you a pink floyd song, toccata and fuga if you have it i only remember the beggining because of i have an electronica version of it that overated the classical version....up to you ! love to have fun in my studio and to whistle music...my teachers at school ever complaning i were whisling music instead making a "hitten drawned" game on a paper with my class neightboor...mayfreak !

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:41 pm

okay, i will. then you have to put it up here at UBW. it'll be a way old tune from the alan lomax collection or something. less worries about copyright infringement and the like. i want it up here! i'll email the file to you now, so be watching. Razz

Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:03 pm

it has been sent folks, so be looking out for PPB's whistle version og the civial war-era ballad 'Barbra Allen' Cool

moderator Joined: Jun 30, 2007 Posts: 333

you little devil you just taste the other side of ppb not because of what i promised you but because without a phrasing and lyrical appreciation it will just be dull...hehe i yet listened the track few times to feel it...i can say not only your are curious but you really challenge me Smile

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