A really capable guy has been helping me with creating midis, he's actually been spoiling me by doing 99% of the work and I would just edit what I wanted to change. When I stumbled upon this interpretation of "The Road To Hell" I figured it was time, time to roll my own at long last.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShjJd1uVG-s
Maybe it's because the song is easy but I'm quite happy with what I've done so far. I'd like to solve 2 outstanding problems at the start. The beat is 135 bpm and the rhythm(?) guitar is playing chords at this rate. But the duration/rest pairing in "my" notation just doesn't sound right. What should I be using (already tried a few different ones)?
Another obstacle is the chords which to me look and sound more like 5's (like the A5 in the attached staff), Yet if I run the midi with my 5's it sounds off. I was never good at reading the fingers in a video Is he playing an E7 or an E5 @ 30 seconds into the video?
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My 1st self-made midi
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> But the duration/rest pairing in "my" notation just doesn't sound right. What should I be using (already tried a few different ones)?
Eighth-notes - no rests.
He's mostly playing what you're calling '5' chords - much muting of strings going on.
> Is he playing an E7 or an E5 @ 30 seconds into the video?
Looks like E7 - sounds like E5.
Eighth-notes - no rests.
He's mostly playing what you're calling '5' chords - much muting of strings going on.
> Is he playing an E7 or an E5 @ 30 seconds into the video?
Looks like E7 - sounds like E5.
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Thanks, it was too obvious and in front of my noseBobUnderwood wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 3:24 am > But the duration/rest pairing in "my" notation just doesn't sound right. What should I be using (already tried a few different ones)?
Eighth-notes - no rests.
I meant 'power' chords, I call'em 5's (that tells me something, 'power' doesn't)He's mostly playing what you're calling '5' chords - much muting of strings going on.
> Is he playing an E7 or an E5 @ 30 seconds into the video?
Looks like E7 - sounds like E5.
And while correcting to 8ths I also noticed that he shifts into a F5-E5-A5 progression in the middle of a bar each time, haven't gotten around to seeing how he reverts to on-bar yet (early morning here, gotta go do useful things now)
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Done with the 5 chords, GM-29 (muted guitar) sounds pretty acceptable
In the process I also learned how note duration is linked to wave length i.e. a gong cannot be sounded as 16th
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https://i.imgur.com/xY6tWbG.png
In the process I also learned how note duration is linked to wave length i.e. a gong cannot be sounded as 16th
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