Fretboard Transformations

Souza, Jonathan De

doi:10.1215/00222909-4450624

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“…• or even on different strings. Indeed, with the standard tuning (E 3 A 3 D 4 G 4 B 4 E 5 ), there is a perfect fourth between two successive strings (except between the G 4 and B 4 strings, where there is a major third).…”

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“…Guitar tablature data are also used in other MIR tasks like chord analysis [17] or guitar identification [3]. The singular pitch topology of the fretboard has inspired some more theoretical researches trying either to generalize this concept through a transformational approach [4] or to develop a dedicated notational system with Klumpenhouwer networks [21].…”

Section: Research In Computer Music Guitar Music and Tablaturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the sake of simplicity, this study concerns tablatures for guitars having = 6 strings with standard tuning (E 3 , A 3 , D 4 , G 4 , B 4 , and E 5 ) and that do not require the use of a capo. As the studied corpus includes a majority of tablatures in pop/rock style for electric guitar, we systematically consider the guitar neck to have = 24 frets, which is not constraining for tablatures written for guitars with less frets.…”

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“…All of these instruments include several strings, each tuned to a specific pitch. Today most guitars have six strings tuned to pitches E 3 , A 3 , D 4 , G 4 , B 4 , and E 5 . As with any instrument, the very construction of the guitar influences the music that is played.…”

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The playing of stringed instruments can be notated with symbolic tablatures, indicating for each note, the string, and the position on the fretboard at which it has to be played. We propose an encoding for tablatures in which the hand position on the fretboard is encoded to ease computational analysis and generation of guitar music. We analyze a corpus of 1022 guitar tablatures in standard tuning that were accurately transcribed in the corpus MySongBook, spanning metal, rock, pop, jazz/blues, and baroque/classical/romantic repertoires. We show how some of the proposed encodings reveal relevant statistics and some invariance properties on such guitar music. We show study unusual guitarist gestures around the G/B string pair due to its interval of major third, compared to the perfect fourth between other adjacent pairs of strings. We study the corpus across genres and textures (rhythm and lead parts) and how same relative chord positions are used along the fretboard. We distribute sets of 1000 most frequent vectors in different encodings for these five music genres. CCS CONCEPTS• Applied computing → Sound and music computing; • Information systems → Music retrieval; Data encoding and canonicalization.

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“…More specifically, we claim that the gestures made are central to the structure of the performance, as these physical movements support, segment, and convey musical structure. As music theory has grown to encompass various forms of bodily movement (Cusick 1994;De Souza 2017;Ito 2021;Koozin 2011;Momii 2020), dance studies (McKee 2014;Zbikowski 2017), and cognitively oriented research (Cox 2016;Huron 2006;Zbikowski 2002;, we show that through studying the process of how the gestures come to be, a keen observer can focus on the moments that bring that materiality of music to the fore. [1.3] Our bodies and the movements they make (i.e.…”

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Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance

Gardner,

Shea

2022

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Music theory has grown to encompass various forms of bodily movement in analysis, including instrumental performance, dance studies, and cognition-based methods. In this paper, we demonstrate how observed physical gestures in popular-music performance can foreground the relationship between the music’s surface elements and its structural features. Live performances by Macy Gray, Alex Lifeson, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe offer various interpretations of physical gesture across vocal and guitar performance. Our analyses illustrate how a performer’s physical gestures aid musical understanding for both the audience and the performer, how pronounced fretboard gestures reflect the embodied segmentation of musical phrasing, and how the demands of instrumental and vocal performance create a hierarchy of gestural function that blurs the boundaries between sound production and musical processing. By focusing on physical gestures that might otherwise be overlooked in traditional music-theoretic analysis, we aim to advocate that each physical movement, from subtle to overt, plays a role in the surface-to-structure process. Paying close attention to such gestures can alter how we hear the music by allowing new nuances to enrich the musical performance and its perception.

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Melodic Transformation in George Garzone’s Triadic Chromatic Approach; or, Jazz, Math, and Basket Weaving

Souza¹

2022

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The Triadic Chromatic Approach (TCA) is a melodic improvisation technique, created by the saxophonist and jazz educator George Garzone. With the TCA, successive triads are connected by a semitone and must have different inversions. The resulting lines mysteriously resolve to any underlying harmony. This article develops transformational and Markov-chain models of the TCA, showing how this melodic process approaches a probability distribution where every pitch class is equally likely to appear. Nonetheless, theorizing the TCA is different from performing it, and insights from Garzone’s students—and the anthropology of weaving—suggest that goals are less fundamental here than characteristic gestures.

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Fretboard Transformations

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

What are the most used guitar positions?

What are the most used guitar positions?

Gestural Perspectives on Popular-Music Performance

Melodic Transformation in George Garzone’s Triadic Chromatic Approach; or, Jazz, Math, and Basket Weaving

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