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if you see a # on the staff?.... could that be mean you should change the tuning?
here's an example...
i'm guessing you could change the tuning, but it's been a long time since i've read the staff, and i kind of forgot which line = which chord / string....
so can someone help me with that?
frigid ice
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no, the sharps(or flats) on the staff just indicate what key it is in...your staff there is in D major(or B minor).
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http://www.notationmachine.com/how_t...adingmusic.htm
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Only if you're playing a sitar or a zither or another instrument with drone or chordal strings.
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i'm sorry, i would look at that website that the cockroach gave... but... it seems very very very long... lol...
and i have a lot of mid-term exams that i have to study for
so... i'll just ask you guys... :P
i've never actually learned how the keys work... (are they like the scales?... like G scale, or A scale???); if so, then... i still don't know how to use them...
also... when you're looking at a staff or a tab, how do you know when you have to change the tuning?...
anyway... back to studying...
hope you all have a nice day...
frigid ice
p.s. this is for the acoustic guitar, not any other instruments (just in case, if there is any confusion........... )
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Originally Posted by frigidice02 i'm sorry, i would look at that website that the cockroach gave... but... it seems very very very long... lol...
If you want to learn something, you generally have to study it.
i've never actually learned how the keys work... (are they like the scales?... like G scale, or A scale???); if so, then... i still don't know how to use them...
A key is a collection of notes and of the chords built on them.
Yes, keys are based on scales (G Major on the G Major scale).
More importantly, a key defines or directs chord progressions.
also... when you're looking at a staff or a tab, how do you know when you have to change the tuning?...
You should never have to change the tuning to play a song.
At times, you may change for sonority or playability reasons.
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Originally Posted by frigidice02 also... when you're looking at a staff or a tab, how do you know when you have to change the tuning?...
A staff won't tell you. A tab might say "tune down half step", or something to that effect. That's generally a good sign. Or, you might see letters other than EADGBe at the beginning of the tab.
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Standard musical notation is completely unrelated to what tuning you should be in, or which form of the chord you should play.
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Originally Posted by Nate You should never have to change the tuning to play a song. Dude liek there's no way you can play punk rawk/metal with standard tuning!!!!

To avoid being cheap...that link is very helpful.
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Originally Posted by frigidice02 i've never actually learned how the keys work... (are they like the scales?... like G scale, or A scale???); if so, then... i still don't know how to use them... The only way to ever understand keys and scales is to learn music theory. Sorry, there's no trick to it.
also... when you're looking at a staff or a tab, how do you know when you have to change the tuning?... If you need to change tuning, it will tell you.
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Basically when your looking at the staff and you see those two sharps, remember that that means whenever an F or a C occurs, you have to play an f sharp and a c sharp.
Also incase you don't know, whenever there is one sharp, it is F, two sharps, it is F and C. It goes in order. Sharps go FCGDAEB
So when there are 5 sharps, it will always be F, C, G, D, and A. and so on
And flats are backwards: BEADGCF