Re: problem with predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly?

[David Kastrup]

Wols Lists <address@hidden> writes:

> On 18/07/19 15:42, David Kastrup wrote:
>>> But provided the bottom string is part of the chord, it doesn't really
>>> > matter. After all, chords are quite often inverted in other music too,
>>> > no?
>
>> An inversion is an inversion.  Guitar chords tend to be comparatively
>> nonchalant about them except for the root note, and that's what we are
>> talking about here.
>
> Isn't the whole point of an inversion that the root isn't at the bottom?
> At least that's what I remember from my music theory.

Well, it's more a matter of "voicing" than of "inversion" with a guitar
since mapping chords to notes is different on a fretboard instrument
than on a keyboard instrument (I don't want to discuss clavichords
here).

> So a C-chord using all six strings is a first inversion - the 3rd of
> the chord is at the bottom. Which probably does sound not too good on
> its own ...

It actually sounds awful.  The lowest note sort-of determines what you'd
call the equivalent of an inversion on a guitar.

-- 
David Kastrup