Q. I need to know how to play a guitar G, C2, and Em7 on the piano. I have a guitar chord sheet and I need to learn those cords on piano
A. The chords are made of the same notes. You can voice them however you want.
What is the difference between TABS and CHORDS for guitar?
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A. I. CHORD
A chord is a set of three or more pitch classes that are perceived as one unit, as if sounding together or belonging together, of which not all pitch classes need to sound, but some may be just implied by the other pitch classes sounding. I'll explain:
By pitch classes I mean that all C's are one pitch class, all D's are one pitch class and so on. So if you play three C's (say, C2, C3 and C4) together, it is not a chord because these are three notes, but the same pitch class (though in very rare circumstances even this could suggest a chord). If you played C, F and B together, this would already be a chord.
By ''not all need to sound'' I mean that you can omit some but you will still hear their presence in a way (and if you have really good ears, you may even really hear it). For example you can always omit the perfect fifth, like in C major chord which is build of C, E and G (the perfect fifth), you can play C and E together, without the G and you will still hear it as a C major chord. These two notes (C, E) are simply enough to define the chord. The reason is that whenever you play or sing a note, apart from that note there are also many other notes that are higher in pitch sounding - these are known as overtones, but you perceive it all as only one tone (the differences in those overtones are actually heard as timbre - like piano has different overtones as a guitar).
There is also a quick/lazy definition of a chord as ''at least three notes sounding simultaneously'', but this is rather imprecise.
Now when talking about GUITAR CHORD CHARTS, these contain the easiest and safest ways to define a chord. Let's look at C major chord again. http://sf053.k12.sd.us/C%20Chord.jpg
Look at the chart. You see that the 6th string is muted, on the 5th string is a C, on the 4th string is an E, on the 3rd string a G, on the 2nd string a C again (but an octave higher than the previous one), on the 1st string an E (again, an octave higher). As I told you, a C major chord is build of C, E and G and you see that all of these notes are played, some even twice.
II. TABULATURE
Tabs is short for tabulature (or tablature) and it's a way to show you which string and on which fret should be pressed. But apart from that it doesn't show you anything, so I suggest standard notation instead. It looks like this:
http://z.about.com/d/guitar/1/0/e/7/bbkin_worwor.gif
How do you make a fast bass sweep?
Q. I'm making a track and I was wondering how to make those fast bass sweeps? If you have good headphones or speakers, here's an example of what I'm talking about: http://youtu.be/QUfsOG6lly0?t=3m19s It starts around 3:20. If you know how to make those, please let me know. I'm using FL Studio.
A. Aha, that's a bass slide. You'll need a bass synth of sorts to start with. FL Studio comes with plenty of options for bass sounds. You can either do Channels > Add One > BooBass to get FL's bass sample or you can do Channels > Add One > 3xOsc to get FL's simple plugin. This one defaults with a pretty good bass sample if you use the C2 - C4 range. Feel free to add effects to it in the mixer like Bass Boost or EQ or something, if you really want to make the bass to stand out.
Then, you've got to make the bass slide from one note to another. To do this, place the note you want the slide to start in and the note you want it to end in, at the same time in the piano roll. For example, if you want the bass to slide from C2 to C3, then make a C2 note at the beginning of the bar, and make a C3 note at the beginning of the bar.
Then, double-click on the note you want the slide to end with, and turn on 'Slide'. This should make a tiny triangle show up at the corner of the note, indicating that it's a sliding note. To put it in the example of sliding from C2 to C3, double click on C3 and turn on 'Slide'.
Once this is done, the bass note will slide from the note without slide turned on to the note with slide turned on. To make it slide more quickly, decrease the length of the note with slide turned on. Sliding can go in any directions; up or down.
Here's a picture of what it should look like, roughly:
http://i46.tinypic.com/2wrhxq8.png
And here is the result:
http://www.mediafire.com/?6b06rd0z4z76qjx
Things to watch out for:
1.) Slide notes don't play any sound. All they do is make normal notes slide. So slide notes on their own do nothing.
2.) Slide notes only work on samples, soundfonts and FL's default/native plugins. It won't work on plugins like Massive, z3ta+, Nexus, etc... because those aren't compatible with sliding.
3.) Make sure that when you're sliding a note up or down, the note with slide turned on must play after or at the same time as the normal note. Play it before and it won't work. Taking the example of sliding from C2 to C3, the note with slide on is C3 and C2 is the normal note. Make sure that the C3 note plays after or at the same time as the C2 note or the slide won't work.
4.) I can go into more detail such as how to make some noes in a chord slide and others stay where they are and whatnot, but I don't want to explain it if you might not be interested since it'll be a waste of time and it'll make everything more complicated. If you want to know about how to do that, email me at:
stephanwells@hotmail.com
I hope I explained it well enough. Good luck!
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