User:TallKite/How To Play the Kite Guitar

(Kite's initial notes for an e-book)

(includes Kite bass)

INTRODUCTION - Why Play the Kite Guitar?

• New chords
• Old chords sound cleaner
• Dirty sounds work better with chords
• New melodies

PART I - THEORY

Chapter 1: Just Intonation and the Harmonic Series

• (take from the website's What It Is page)
• disclaimer -- no 11-limit in this book

Chapter 2: 41-equal

• difference between edosteps and ratios

PART II - NOTATION

Chapter 3: Ups and Downs

• note names
• interval names
• staff notation

Chapter 4: Tablature

• KDF tablature
• relative tablature

PART III - FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND

Chapter 5: The Fretboard's Notes

• downmajor tuning (mention other tunings are in appendix 3)
• the three kites
• a fifth equals three dots equals one kite
• no octave fret
• note diagrams for 6, 7 and 8 strings, plus bass
• example riff in tab & score

Chapter 6: How To Tune

• microtonal apps
• standard tuner with a sus4 chord
• tuning via 1sns and 8ves

Chapter 7: The Fretboard's Intervals

• various diagrams with rainbows

PART IV - MUSIC

Chapter 8: Basic Scales

• vM, ^m, example melodies in each
• vm, ^M, play same melodies

Chapter 9: Basic Triads

• how chords are named
• downmajor - Amazing Grace
• upminor - Wade In the Water
• downminor, upmajor - Downminor Nocturne riff
• sus4, sus2
• updim, downdim

Chapter 10: Basic Chord Progressions

• Iv - IVv - Vv
• Iv - vII^m

Chapter 11: Pitch Shifts

• Iv - IVv - II^m - Vv

Chapter 12: Basic Tetrads

• v7, v,7
• vM7, ^m7, vm7
• ^7, ^9
• ^d^7, vdv7
• ^d7, vd7

Chapter 13: Bending

• half-fret bend
• microbend for fine-tuning vM3, vM6

Chapter 14: How to Translate Songs

• IvM7 - II^m7 - Vv7 - IvM7 issues
• melody vs. harmony
• (take from my xenwiki examples)

APPENDICES

Appendix 1: Giant chords list

• (take from the xenwiki)

Appendix 2: Giant scales list

• (take from the xenwiki)

Appendix 3: Finding the Notes

• staff and tab for every note

Appendix 4: Alternate tunings

• Downmajor 3rds (isomorphic)
• Alternating 3rds, P4-M2 (dimorphic)
• Open tunings
• The a-fret
• The Multi-fret Capo
• Banjo Spikes