tgvanessa wrote:
Quiz
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I was playing in Drop A the other day, strings tuned as: AEADF#B, I was capoed at the second fret playing in the key of G, so what was the absolute key/pitch? What should I tell my pianoplayer???!
michelew wrote:
OK - this feels like a trick question and at the risk of feeling like an idiot if I get it wrong...
It doesn't matter what you're turned to, if you're playing in the key of G but you're capoed at the second fret then your pianist should play in A
So...I'm awake now...the
reason I thought this was a trick question, was because I thought Ness was saying that after tuning the guitar down she was playing in the key of G in absolute terms. I get now that you meant playing chords shapes for the key of G as if in standard tuning (or drop D).
So the absolute key = [chord shapes as if in standard tuning - if you're using them] adjusted by [tuning] adjusted by the [capo placement]
And hope the bass player knows what they should be playing in
there's no transpose button... It's all bassist.
Maybe I'm just suspicious. This felt like one of those trick physics questions where you get a whole bunch of info like weather, time of day, wind direction, speed of the train, number of passenger and a few station names and the real question is what did the engine driver eat for lunch.