Kite Guitar translations

The following songs have been translated to the Kite Guitar. To search for a certain song, artist or translator, use control-F in your browser. All tabs are for a guitar tuned in downmajor 3rds, unless otherwise noted. The original 12-edo chords are the 41-edo chords with the ups and downs omitted, unless otherwise noted. See Kite Guitar Chord Shapes (downmajor tuning) for reference on fingerings, inversions, etc.

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Kite Guitar Translations by Kite Giedraitis

• 1 Microtonal Pop Songs
  • 1.1 CBAT (Hudson Mohawke)
  • 1.2 These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (Lee Hazlewood)
  • 1.3 Sleep Drifter (King Gizzard and the Lizzard Wizard)
  • 1.4 Good In Bed (Dua Lipa)
  • 1.5 Scar Tissue (Red Hot Chili Peppers, intro only)
• 2 Triadic Songs
  • 2.1 Amazing Grace (trad.)
  • 2.2 Wade In The Water (trad. spiritual)
  • 2.3 Simple Twist Of Fate (Bob Dylan)
  • 2.4 Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)
  • 2.5 Hotel California (The Eagles)
  • 2.6 Stairway To Heaven intro (Led Zeppelin)
  • 2.7 Kashmir in DADGAD (Led Zeppelin)
  • 2.8 Greensleeves (traditional)
  • 2.9 And I Love Her (The Beatles)
  • 2.10 Every Breath You Take (The Police)
  • 2.11 Getting In Tune (The Who)
  • 2.12 Blackbird (Beatles)
• 3 Tetradic Songs
  • 3.1 I Will (The Beatles)
  • 3.2 Love Is A Losing Game (Amy Winehouse)
  • 3.3 Stormy Monday (T-Bone Walker, Bobby Bland, Allman Brothers)
  • 3.4 I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
  • 3.5 Manhattan Island Serenade (Leon Russell)
  • 3.6 Girl From Ipanema (Antônio Carlos Jobim)
  • 3.7 Killing Me Softly (Roberta Flack)
  • 3.8 Linus and Lucy (Vince Guaraldi)
  • 3.9 Bye Bye Blackbird (Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon)
  • 3.10 Alice's Restaurant (Arlo Guthrie)
• 4 Barbershop tags
  • 4.1 Please Don't Sell My Daddy No More Wine (Tom Lane)
  • 4.2 When It's Sleepy Time Down South
  • 4.3 Way Down South
  • 4.4 Smile
  • 4.5 Whisper Words of Wisdom (Let It Be by the Beatles)
• 5 World Music, Microtonal Music, etc.
  • 5.1 Kusuva Musha (traditional mbira)
  • 5.2 Mizarian Porcupine Overture (Herman Miller, microtonal)
  • 5.3 Stupid F*cking White Man (Decolonize Your Mind Society, microtonal)
  • 5.4 Couples Therapy (Jacob Barton, microtonal)
  • 5.5 22-edo Porcupine Pump (Mike Battaglia, microtonal)

Kite Guitar Translations by Aaron Wolf

• 1 Auld Lang Syne
• 2 My old Kentucky Home (barbershop tag)

Kite Guitar Translations by Athan Spathas

• 1 What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong
• 2 Lean on me (Bill Withers) - Translated by Athan

Kite Guitar Translations by Richie Greene

• 1 Well Tempered Clavier, Prelude #1, C major, BVW 846 (J.S. Bach)
• 2 Aquatic Ambience (David Wise)
• 3 Avril 14 (Aphex Twin)

Kite Guitar Translations by Aaron Solomon-Filer

• 1 Nardis (Miles Davis)
• 2 Strange Meetings (Bill Frisell)
• 3 Bouree II From Cello Suite 4 (J. S. Bach)
• 4 Oyfn Pripetchik (Warshawsky)
• 5 Scrapple From the Apple (Charlie Parker)
• 6 Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1 (J.S. Bach)

Kite Guitar Translations by Praveen Venkataramana

• Prelude #1 by Ivor Darreg, originally for 19edo guitar

• On the Enharmonic Tetrachord by Ivor Darreg, originally for 22edo keyboard