Kite's thoughts on hi-lo notation: Difference between revisions
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Hi-lo notation | Hi-lo notation is for naming chord voicings. It applies to all tunings, even conventional ones like 12-edo or meantone. It allows arrangers, composers and theorists to discuss specific voicings with much more accuracy than the conventional 1st inversion, 2nd inversion, etc. nomenclature. | ||
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Naming the roots as hi or lo ''almost'' allows us to reduce a barbershop tag to a mere succession of chords. However voices sometimes coincide or cross. See [[Kite Guitar Translations by Kite Giedraitis#Barbershop tags]] | Naming the roots as hi or lo ''almost'' allows us to reduce a barbershop tag to a mere succession of chords. However voices sometimes coincide or cross. See [[Kite Guitar Translations by Kite Giedraitis#Barbershop tags]] | ||
Hi-lo notation was invented by [[Kite Giedraitis]]. | |||
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