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Azrael
Gargoyle Instructor
Joined: 04/06/01
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Azrael
Gargoyle Instructor
Joined: 04/06/01
Posts: 2,093
04/15/2003 10:12 am
First you need to know the tonal range of the instrument you are transposing to and the tonal range of the instrumet where you are transposing from.

When transposing stuff from the piano you need ot be aware that the piano is the instrument with the biggest tonal range. The tonal range of a guitar is with a normal tuning on a 24 fret guitar from E to e''' (4 octaves) - a piano has about 8 octaves. SO you have to transpose some stuff upwards and some stuff downwards and of course you have to be aware of the physical aspect -you just cannot play certain stuff that can be played on the piano because you would need like 10 fingers and a huge hand.

so you also need some skills in mucis-theory to find chordal structures and transpose them to the guitar so that they can be played. you will also have to leave certain notes away - this is allowed as long as the characteristic of the piece remains the same.

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