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E#. Wait, what?
- Thread starter comatosedragon
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When the guitarist said E# is when you bend an E, you should have asked him how he plays an Eb.
This is the scariest statement in the whole thing. Sir, your role and responsibility is gigantic.
I wouldn't pay. E# is not F, which is why any syllabus that matters does not cover 6# and 6b key signatures until grade 5. Once you know it there is no requirement to dwell on it, but for those that do not yet know and are trying to learn, saying E# is F will be confusing and misguiding.
In a tempered scale, F is sometimes notated as an E# to make it easier to read on a score. But the others are correct: E# is the same note as an F.
From the way your guitarist is talking I doubt he has the knowledge or sophistication to mean an E# microtone where E# would be between E and F. (Doable without bending on a fretless BTW.) So yeah, E-bend up to F-then C-then F (as Chungweishan said earlier) is how most normal "veteran" players would say it.
I worked with a self-taught guitarist once who was a very good songwriter. The only problem was, being entirely self-taught (And proud of it, Man!), he had his own words for everything. (He called chords "stacks" and scales "runs.") It was a real...um..."challenge" collaborating with him at the best of times.
Good luck!
From the way your guitarist is talking I doubt he has the knowledge or sophistication to mean an E# microtone where E# would be between E and F. (Doable without bending on a fretless BTW.) So yeah, E-bend up to F-then C-then F (as Chungweishan said earlier) is how most normal "veteran" players would say it.
I worked with a self-taught guitarist once who was a very good songwriter. The only problem was, being entirely self-taught (And proud of it, Man!), he had his own words for everything. (He called chords "stacks" and scales "runs.") It was a real...um..."challenge" collaborating with him at the best of times.
Good luck!
It isn't cromulent either.
I don't know what cromulent is, though it won't be cromulent that's for sure.
Me thinks they were pulling your leg, just for fun. no harm intended.
In the district praise band I am in, I sometimes find myself playing in what I consider odd keys. I do not use sheet music, but most of the time the piano and keys do. There have been times when the keyboard players would have E#, B#, Cb, Fb, Bbb, etc notes. I play mostly using the NNS, and occasionally the charts are easier to read as - 4 4b 3b 2b 1 7b 6 5 (even though a 4b is a three).
In the district praise band I am in, I sometimes find myself playing in what I consider odd keys. I do not use sheet music, but most of the time the piano and keys do. There have been times when the keyboard players would have E#, B#, Cb, Fb, Bbb, etc notes. I play mostly using the NNS, and occasionally the charts are easier to read as - 4 4b 3b 2b 1 7b 6 5 (even though a 4b is a three).
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E# and B# are what I always consider musical narwhals; notes that sound like they don't really exist in real life, but they do.
That said, I'll usually find them in theatre productions or anything with a singer. Singers tend to sing in sharp keys, and especially in theatre when you go up/down a step during a song (sometimes multiple times), you find those narwhals showing up, ready to make you play the wrong notes and swear in front of the high school kids next to you in the pit.
Not that I know about that, I've just seen it. Yeah, seen it...
That said, I'll usually find them in theatre productions or anything with a singer. Singers tend to sing in sharp keys, and especially in theatre when you go up/down a step during a song (sometimes multiple times), you find those narwhals showing up, ready to make you play the wrong notes and swear in front of the high school kids next to you in the pit.
Not that I know about that, I've just seen it. Yeah, seen it...
Not in C# major, among other keys, and with certain altered chords, if you want to maintain traditional Western diatonic harmony notation and voice leading.
I didn't say it did.
It isn't idiotic either.
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...close enough to not legit.
I have played with some very schooled and knowledgeable musicians. I have never heard any of them use or refer to E#
You inferred idiotic means not legit in your initial message.
None of these things mean not legitimate, at a minimum indicated by the absence of not legitimate in the list.
You are wrong.
If you start reading music, or even fake/real book - you'll see all kinds of #'s and b's that at first glance might not make sense to you. E# does indeed mean the same thing as F for a bass player.
My guitar player and I often notate certain #'s and b's differently when we transpose some of our sheets (like C#'s and Db's), but we are all saying the same thing...you'dig.
However the way your guitar player is describing it as a bend sounds a little suspect. Either he's messing with you, or speaking rock guitar player lingo.
My guitar player and I often notate certain #'s and b's differently when we transpose some of our sheets (like C#'s and Db's), but we are all saying the same thing...you'dig.
However the way your guitar player is describing it as a bend sounds a little suspect. Either he's messing with you, or speaking rock guitar player lingo.
