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This chart shows the actual notes of an 8-string Kite guitar. The notes circled in red are the open strings of a 12-edo guitar. The ideal string gauges for this tuning are discussed in the "For Luthiers" section. Every 4th fret has a dot, and every 12th fret has a double dot. Three dots equals a 5th. | This chart shows the actual notes of an 8-string Kite guitar. The notes circled in red are the open strings of a 12-edo guitar. The ideal string gauges for this tuning are discussed in the "For Luthiers" section. Every 4th fret has a dot, and every 12th fret has a double dot. Three dots equals a 5th. | ||
[[File:The Kite Tuning 4.png|none|thumb|900x900px]] | [[File:The Kite Tuning 4.png|none|thumb|900x900px]] | ||
A 6-string guitar is usually tuned to the middle 6 strings of | A 6-string guitar is usually tuned to the middle 6 strings of the full 8 strings: | ||
[[File:Fretboard 4-6.png|none|thumb|900x900px]] | [[File:Fretboard 4-6.png|none|thumb|900x900px]] | ||
This is called the mid-6 tuning, as opposed to a low-6 tuning vD to vA, or high-6 tuning ^A to ^E. (Not to be confused with the low-6 or high-6 ''voicing'', see the [[The_Kite_Guitar_Chord_Shapes_(downmajor_tuning)|chord page]].) | |||
* 8-string guitar: full-8 | |||
* 7-string guitar: low-7 or high-7, or possibly mid-7 (low-7 plus a dot, E to Eb) | |||
* 6-string guitar: low-6, mid-6 or high-6 | |||
* 6-string bass: full-6 (low-6 down an octave) | |||
* 5-string bass: low-5 or possibly high-5 | |||
* 4-string bass: low-4, mid-4 or possibly high-4 | |||
This chart shows all the notes, not just the natural ones. But it's too much work to memorize all this. Just learn where the 7 natural notes are, and learn your intervals. Since the open strings don’t work as well, one tends to think more in terms of intervals than notes anyway. | This chart shows all the notes, not just the natural ones. But it's too much work to memorize all this. Just learn where the 7 natural notes are, and learn your intervals. Since the open strings don’t work as well, one tends to think more in terms of intervals than notes anyway. | ||
[[File:The Kite Tuning 5.png|none|thumb|900x900px]]Some keys are somewhat awkward to play in. For example, a vG scale is either too close to the nut to have a plain major 2nd, or else way up at the 16th fret where the fret spacing becomes too cramped to play chords comfortably. There's a "sweet spot" for the tonic on the lowest 3 strings, from about the 5th fret to about the 12th fret. This defines a 3x8 rectangle containing 24 keys, roughly every other one of the 41 possible keys. The lowest string of an 8-string is tuned to vD not D so that the common keys of C, G, D, A and E fall in this sweet spot. D is tuned to A-440 standard pitch, to bring these 5 keys as close to 12-edo as possible. D agrees exactly, A is 2.5¢ sharp of 12-edo, E is 5¢ sharp, and so forth along the spiral of 5ths. | [[File:The Kite Tuning 5.png|none|thumb|900x900px]]Some keys are somewhat awkward to play in. For example, a vG scale is either too close to the nut to have a plain major 2nd, or else way up at the 16th fret where the fret spacing becomes too cramped to play chords comfortably. There's a "sweet spot" for the tonic on the lowest 3 strings, from about the 5th fret to about the 12th fret. This defines a 3x8 rectangle containing 24 keys, roughly every other one of the 41 possible keys. The lowest string of an 8-string is tuned to vD not D so that the common keys of C, G, D, A and E fall in this sweet spot. D is tuned to A-440 standard pitch, to bring these 5 keys as close to 12-edo as possible. D agrees exactly, A is 2.5¢ sharp of 12-edo, E is 5¢ sharp, and so forth along the spiral of 5ths. | ||
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Chords are named using [[Ups and Downs Notation|ups and down notation]], see also the [http://tallkite.com/misc_files/notation%20guide%20for%20edos%205-72.pdf notation guide for edos 5-72]. Briefly, an up or down in the chord name immediately after the root affects the 3rd, 6th and/or the 7th, but not the 5th or 9th. Chord progressions are written as Cv7 - vEb^m6 - Fv7 or Iv7 - vbIII^m6 - IVv7. | Chords are named using [[Ups and Downs Notation|ups and down notation]], see also the [http://tallkite.com/misc_files/notation%20guide%20for%20edos%205-72.pdf notation guide for edos 5-72]. Briefly, an up or down in the chord name immediately after the root affects the 3rd, 6th and/or the 7th, but not the 5th or 9th. Chord progressions are written as Cv7 - vEb^m6 - Fv7 or Iv7 - vbIII^m6 - IVv7. | ||
A fairly exhaustive survey of 41-edo chords is | A fairly exhaustive survey of 41-edo chords is at [[The_Kite_Guitar_Chord_Shapes_(downmajor_tuning)]]. | ||
Here's a printer-friendly chart to get you started, with and without fingerings: | Here's a printer-friendly chart to get you started, with and without fingerings: | ||