Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Present chord generation prototype

[Guillaume L. <gla...@te...>]

(replying to the list as you seem to have replied to me privately)

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 02:46, Stephen Torri wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 17:04 +0100, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 16:17, Stephen Torri wrote:
> > > What you are saying is very true. There are a few chords that I use on
> > > Sunday morning when I play. What I find sometimes is that the chords
> > > listed to be played are not correct for either the key in which the
> > > piece is to be played or just does not sound quite in tune with the
> > > piano. So I have gone through all the chords that could fit to find the
> > > one I need.
> >
> > But that's a problem with the arrangement itself, isn't it ? How does
> > that relate to how the chord is fingered ?
>
> I was taking your point about having unique/rarely used chords being
> pointless to a typical guitarist. So I was relating my experience with
> having to find a new chord. I thought it was appropriate since without a
> list of alternatives I would not have found one that fit. The main point
> I thought we were discussing was chord generation/selection and not
> fingering.

I'm missing something here. If I understand correctly, this prototype outputs 
fingerings for a given specific chord, does it print fingerings for similar 
chords as well ? (e.g. you ask fingerings for C it will also give you Cm, C7, 
etc...) If so, it should also print which chord the fingering corresponds to.

So my concern is that it prints way too many fingerings for a given chord, 
most of which are useless. This has nothing to do with having to find a 
different chord to play in stead of another one, in which case what you will 
rely on is music theory more than fingering computation.

> Well lets see what comes of contacting Dr. Radicioni. If nothing then we
> can keep what we have at present and begin the grunt work of entering in
> new chords.

OK.

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Guillaume.
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