I've been listening to this song almost nonstop for the last day or so and I reeeeaaaallllly wanna learn it.... http://www.guitartabs.cc/fetchfile.php?fileid=5119447 The 3rd chord is Cb6, or B#6... but how is that possible? Does anybody know what the correct chord is? Altho it is being played on a keyboard... I know nothing about them, maybe they have B#...?
It makes sense in terms of music theory. Read it as B6. There's no real difference between B and Cb, it's just for the weirdly minded.
That's for unusual key signatures. It's all pretty redundant in modern composition, and it was never any use to "pop" guitarists. Why we don't just convert everything to 12-tone notation I'll never know.
I assume its just a B with a 6th or a C with a 6th. e 8 a 10 d 8 g 9 b 10 e 8 thats a c7 with an attached 6th.
its cos its easier to work out western scales in the notation we have now **shrugs** but then there's people who study other contemporary styles... but i tend to base it around western anyway, cos i already know that stuff
It's really because the medieval monks thought the knew every damn thing. Went and screwed it up for everyone who wasn't a European Christian.
Double-sharps (notated by an "x", not "##") and double-flats ("bb") are just accidentals that indicate that the base note be raised or lowered by two half-steps. usually double-sharps are used in sharped keys (E, A, G, c#, etc.) and double-flats in flatted keys (F, Bb, Eb, c, etc.) since the rule of thumb is not to mix sharps and flats. (Of course, this was tossed out with the rest of the rules in the 20th century, but it's still taught in theory classes...) I've never seen double accidentals directly incorporated into a key signature (half-flats and half-sharps are another story) but I suppose anything's possible...
Did we force Hindustani classical musicians to switch from sargam to western classical notation? No. How about the numeric matrices of Indonesian gamelan orchestras? Nope. Are Kalahari bushmen taking up manuscript paper to teach their children the rhythms that are the lifeblood of their tribe? You get my drift. Western society pushed plenty of things on other cultures-- for better or for worse-- but music notation wasn't one of them...
