[LAU] Sorry: Chord finder - Re: Take III

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 13:18 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > > thanks for speaking on behalf of all of us ralf. or perhaps on the
> > > > other hand, we're grown up enough to decide for ourselves?
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> Accidentally I found a book some minutes ago, again pardon for another
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> ... it's "BEATLES Complete Guitar Edition". Too funny, I started
> learning guitar using the same book's piano edition, I couldn't find it,
> but I own it and IIRC the piano edition even for guitarists is much
> better. Not only that the guitar version is missing more than the piano
> version (same songs, but a completely different niveau), both are also
> transposed different to the original songs.
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> "Yellow Submarine" is missing every "unneeded" chord for the guitar
> edition, but IIRC all chords are written in the piano edition and for a
> childish, lovely song like this, comping
> [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comping ] is a must.
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> OTOH, the original "Real Book" is amazing, but IMO the idea of such
> books is to remember the texts and the "musical tendency". Names for
> chords are very helpful, I like them, but they're just a link to how to
> play a song, as notes and tabs are too, they don't say detailed how to
> play a song.
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> I guess it was the OP who wrote the python script naming a combination
> of notes by different CORRECT names (since the notes only don't provide
> this information).
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> In the end a command line tool still will be airy-fairy.

Oops, perhaps "Cry Baby Cry" does fit better to "chord playing" in
different ways. I suspect that "comping" isn't the academical correct
term, hopefully you understand my doubts anyway.