Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
by andawg on Saturday March 21, 2020 @07:16PM
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Yeah, I just meant "not what I expect" because I play primarily dobro now which uses GBDGBD. The tuning on the website is the correct open G tuning for guitar.
Awesome, i'll check out the github repo and add a PR if I think of something to add! Thanks for adding those! I'll keep an eye on the site.
For dobro open G, an octave is four strings up or down. IE, if i'm play an A on the 1st (highest tuned) string at the 7th fret, another A can be found at the 7th fret of the 4th string.
Between strings, the steps between the strings varies so it's harder to have a single rule there.
Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
by uhoh-itsmaciek on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:22PM
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Cool, just added six-string dobro open D and open G (right now calling it "standard" because that's most common in bluegrass and I seem to have a bug that every instrument right now needs a tuning called "standard" but can't find it).
>Also, the open G is not as I would expect, but I think the DGDGBD tuning is what people expect on guitar.
You mean it's not what you'd expect for dobro, right? I haven't really played guitar in years, but I think that's right for guitar. I'll add a dobro section now, I just need to find the actual octaves for the notes in the tunings you list. Adding new tunings is just a simple-change [2] (though I may need to adjust mobile layout for more than six strings). I can add pedal steel, too. I wanted to add banjo, as well, but need to figure out that fifth string.
[1]: https://github.com/uhoh-itsmaciek/fretboard.cool [2]: https://github.com/uhoh-itsmaciek/fretboard.cool/blob/master...