Re: Links are broke

At 04:02 28.07.2005, you wrote:
>I'm getting Page Cannot be found error on many of the links from the main
>page.
>
>http://www.torvund.net/guitar/Blues%20Guitar/index.asp#Part%201
>
>http://www.torvund.net/guitar/Blues%20Guitar/12_bar_in_E-introduction.asp
>
>I took out the space character, "%20" and made it to the page.

I do not know how you got to that "main page". You should not have been there ...
I changed the folder name from Blues Guitar (Blues%20Guitar) to BluesGuitar. But I must have forgotten to change this index page to a forwarding page. Now I have done this, and you should not be able to stay at this main page any more.

Olav Torvund
http://www.torvund.net

Re: sus2 chords

At 15:40 16.08.2005, you wrote:
>Dude, there are no such things as sus2 chords. The
>tension exists in the 4th replacing the 3rd. A sus2
>chord is a sus4 (or simply sus) chord in 1st
>inversion. Accordging to you a Csus2 is CDG, but a
>Gsus is GCD. You may as well call an Am (ACE) a C6
>without the 5th - CE_A.

If one should apply correct theory strictly, there are no such thing as a 5-chord either. The "power-chords" that are often notated a 5, for instance G5, are just an interval (a fifth) with a double root. By definition a chord has three or more notes, and a 5-chord has only two. But it is common practise to call them chords and notate them as 5-chords. I stick to practise, not the theory.

This takes me to the sus chords. One may say that there is no such thing as a sus2 chord, just as there is no such thing as a 5-chord. But if you read music notation for guitar, you will often see sus2 chords. So even if they do not exist in theory, they do exist in practise. The relation between the sus2 and 2us4 chords are explained in
http://www.torvund.net/guitar/Theory/11-2-The_sus4_chord.asp.

If one should apply the theory to very common and very guitaristic phrases notated as
D - Dsus4 - D - Dsus2 - D or A - Asus4 - A - Asus2 - A,
it should have been
D - Dsus4 - D - Asus4 - D, or A - Asus4 - A - Esus4 - A.

But this would also be misleading, as the chords in these two sequences function as variations of either the D chord or the A chord, and should be notated in some way or another as a D chord or and A chord. And common practise is to notate them as sus2. And after all, the tension in the
"sus2" - to the extent that there is any tension - against the root and the fifth, comes from the second.

As I write in http://www.torvund.net/guitar/chords/sus2.asp , the sus2 is sometimes written as add2 or add9 chords, but this is not really correct either. So I think I will stick to the sus2 notation.

Olav Torvund
http://www.torvund.net

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Re: Open-G.asp

At 21:39 26.07.2005, you wrote:
>Olav,
>Greetings from Seattle, Washington, USA.
>
>I am confused by your description of open G tuning.
>First you say "tune the high E string to E". Then you give the resultant
>tuning as D-G-D-G-B-G. Then you say the "The chord has the voicing
>5-1-5-1-3-5 ". I believe the last to be correct resulting from tuning the
>E string to D.
>
>This from the page: http://www.torvund.net/guitar/OpenTuning/Open-G.asp

You are right. The high E string should be tuned down to D, giving the
tuning D-G-D-G-B-D. Then the voicing is correct.
I have sent the answer bcc to my guitarblog at
http://olavsguitar.blogspot.com/

Olav Torvund
http://www.torvund.net

RE: Broken link in www.torvund.net

>There appears to be a problem on this page of your site.
>
> On page http://www.torvund.net/guitar/Links/Guitar%20manufacturers.asp
> when you click on "Ovation",
> the link to http://www.kamanmusic.com/ovation/
> gives the error: Not found.
>
>As recommended by the Robot Guidelines, this email is to explain
>our robot's visit to your site, and to let you know about one of
>the problems we found. We don't store or publish the content of
>your pages, but rather use the link information to update our map
>of the World Wide Web.
>
>Are these reports helpful? I'd love some feedback. If you prefer
>not to receive these occasional error notices please let me know.

Thanks.
It is a great help to receive such error messages, as I cannot keep track of
all the links. The correct link now seems to be http://www.ovationguitars.com/
. I will correct this in a not too distant future.

RE: Feedback!

>Hey, Olav!
>
>Nice pages, thanks much!
>
>I had to find a G5 powerchord near the lower frets
>and your page at http://www.torvund.net/guitar/chords/G5.asp
>showed me how.
>
>Since you ask for feedback, how about differntiating the
>root from the rest by showing it with a red circle instead
>of black? Just a thought...
>
>Many thanks again,

It may be a good idea. The problem is that I will have to redraw all the
diagrams to do this, and this will be many hours of work ..

I have also posted this reply to my guitar blog at
http://olavsguitar.blogspot.com/

RE: Your site

>Hi Olav, Nice work on the guitar website. I am a newbie to guitars
>...your site helps. I have a question on scales though, wonder if you
>can help me. Ionian is a whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half scale,
>correct? An A Ionian starts on 6th string, 5th fret, correct? An A
>Dorian would still start with 6th string, 5th fret, am I correct? I
>found a site (cyberfret) that tells me otherwise ... got me all
>confused.
>
>
>
>Oh, noticed that you're a lawyer ... well, hi from a fellow lawyer from
>afar :-)
>
Thanks for nice words. Your description of the Ionian scale, which is the same
as the standard Major scale, is correct. But when you are referring to frets,
I am not sure what you mean. If you think of A-major (Inonian A),it will start
on the 6th string 5th fret. I you change mode and stay with the same root,
then A-Dorian would start on 5th fret. But the Dorian that is closely related
to A-Ionian is B-dorian, and the you will start at either 5th string 2nd fret
or 6th string 7th fret. Which of my pages is causing this confusion?

(By the way, I am copying the answer to my guitar-blog at
http://olavsguitar.blogspot.com/ )

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