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My bass is tuned AHEF
- Thread starter VinKreepo
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Ric5
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- Jan 29, 2008
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- I like 5, 8, 10, and 12 string basses
I didn't want to comment, but I'm glad someone did. I laughed so hard when I read the OP I almost spit coffee out my nose.I suppose this is one of the pitfalls of relying on tab rather than actually learning real notes.
When I was learning Ukulele, I referenced chord diagrams, this one always left me puzzled with the tuning, makes a little more sense now:
http://www.sippe-w.de/assets/images/ukulele_chords_a-d-fis-h.gif
http://www.sippe-w.de/assets/images/ukulele_chords_a-d-fis-h.gif
I learned about H when I went searching for an alternative source for strings for my 5 string Conklin MEU. I contacted Thomastik and H came up. He was saying the B and H thing had some religious signifiicance, something about the EVIL tritone, interval of The Devil. Can't be true though or all sorts of metal would be in that key....
Interesting i was also under the impression that H was a Bb, learn something new every day
Awesome random fact!
I was thinking maybe it was g##, but I like this fact better
It would be Gx (that's the closest I can get to typing a double-sharp symbol on a compy)
But I think the guy on the comment meant to hit the G and accidentally undershot it and hit the H instead.
I think we should give the OP some slack, here in America we have never seen H, it has been drilled into us since our musical birth that the alphabet stops at G, and if I went into rehearsal and started talking about H they would laugh at me, too.
From Wikipedia:
Music notation systems have used letters of the alphabet for centuries. The 6th century philosopher Boethius is known to have used the first fifteen letters of the alphabet to signify the notes of the two-octave range that was in use at the time.
Following this, the system of repeating letters A-G in each octave was introduced. The remaining five notes of the chromatic scale (the black keys on a piano keyboard) were added gradually; the first being B, which was flattened in certain modes to avoid the dissonant tritone interval. This change was not always shown in notation, but when written, B♭ (B-flat) was written as a Latin, round "b", and B♮ (B-natural) a Gothic or "hard-edged" b. These evolved into the modern flat and natural symbols respectively. The sharp symbol arose from a barred b, called the "cancelled b". In parts of Europe, including Germany, Poland, Hungary and Russia, the natural symbol transformed into the letter H (possibly for hart, German for hard).
Music notation systems have used letters of the alphabet for centuries. The 6th century philosopher Boethius is known to have used the first fifteen letters of the alphabet to signify the notes of the two-octave range that was in use at the time.
Following this, the system of repeating letters A-G in each octave was introduced. The remaining five notes of the chromatic scale (the black keys on a piano keyboard) were added gradually; the first being B, which was flattened in certain modes to avoid the dissonant tritone interval. This change was not always shown in notation, but when written, B♭ (B-flat) was written as a Latin, round "b", and B♮ (B-natural) a Gothic or "hard-edged" b. These evolved into the modern flat and natural symbols respectively. The sharp symbol arose from a barred b, called the "cancelled b". In parts of Europe, including Germany, Poland, Hungary and Russia, the natural symbol transformed into the letter H (possibly for hart, German for hard).
now...
I rest my case. So, in turn, you violated my rule. H could have easily been a typo. I never said it was or wasn't, it could have been. So even if he meant to type G, I still found it hilarious.
The point here is he tried to correct the person saying that the comment was not clear for people who weren't in EADG tuning. He didn't have to be a butthole. Either he used H and thus used a note that is not common, thereby creating confusion that he had just preached against OR he made a typo which ended up being hilarious since he thought he was correcting the kind person that tried to help him out. So next time you all think I broke my rule, go reread my post, then use the edit button
I used to joke about tuning to H#...I had no idea how close I actually was until today.
