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See that was great Gary. I didn't say the Cure write horrible songs or are terrible players there is just something about Robert Smith's voice that grates me...you're not Robert Smith so it's all good
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Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
fucking seriously. the result of being the largest, unwound string I suppose.
That, and tempered tuning.
Acadiafall
Kiss Me Hardy
Tenpole Tudor? Yeah! Totally_jammin_out
mongooz
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the reason was once explained to me and it's pretty convoluted.....but in the end it comes down to....the G string will NEVER been perfectly in tune all the way up and down the neck.....period.
Gary Blanchard
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Thanks. I got into the Cure with the Standing on a Beach compilation; I passed it on to my son who became a fanatic. He owns everything they have done: CDs, DVDs, picture discs, bootlegs...See that was great Gary. I didn't say the Cure write horrible songs or are terrible players there is just something about Robert Smith's voice that grates me...you're not Robert Smith so it's all good
I don't mind Robert Smith's voice, and I just think that is such a cool song. (I don't think they wrote that one, by the way.) Oddly, I don't think I have performed it since that recording.
Gary Blanchard
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Oddly, I always have more problems with the G on an electric than I do on an acoustic. idn_smilie Is that what others experience?
Jbird
Kick Henry Jackassowski
It seems on most of, if not all of my guitars I can't get the B & high E to work well together.
I've read that EVH had the same problem and would flatten the tuning or intonation of the B string.
mongooz
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i've had issues with the B string also, depending on what chord i'm playing. for instance, if i play an open D chord and get the B string right.....then it would be off when i play an open G chord. goofy instrument the guitar is.
Gary Blanchard
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Dudeman1967
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That is the same for me but my acoustic has a wound G string and my electrics don't. Not sure of that's the only reason or not. idn_smilie
Gary Blanchard
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That makes some sense.
It isn't the guitar's fault. Any instrument that can play in all keys has the same problem.
Short answer:
The frequency of each note in our music system (frets on a guitar) increases over the previous note by the twelfth root of 2 which is approximately 1.0594630943592952645. Why the 12th root of two? Because each octave is divided into 12 steps (frets), and an octave is a doubling of frequency.
Perfect Chords are built by using notes who's frequencies can be expressed by a ratio of small whole numbers. For example the two frequencies associated with what we call a 5th, when expressed as a ratio, is 3/2. The guitar A string is tuned to 110 Hertz. Therefore the note that is a fifth up would be 165 Hertz (165/110 = 3/2).
Remember that we don't have an infinite palate of frequencies from which to create the notes we need to make chords. The only notes we have are related to each other in frequency by 1.0594630943592952645. So, using notes that are related to each other by multiples of 1.0594630943592952645, we can get CLOSE to ratios like 3/2 (the 5th that we wanted), but we can't get there exactly.
Long answer: google tempered scale
Gary Blanchard
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Gary Blanchard
beloved, local musician
You blinded me with science. SCIENCE!
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