Chris O’Leary 10Sa2 10F Music Commentary for Special Events
Page 1 _ 21/03/02
Candidate 1
Presented originally with composition on Tablature (commentary only printed here)
The Full Eclipse
The Recital Evening
Task:
To create a musical composition to go with a special event to me of my choice.
Basic Outline Description
My main plan was to have an alternative tuning on my guitar to give a slightly different timbre to the sound of my guitar compared to a standard tuning of a guitar. The difference being when the strings are strummed in open position with no notes fretted you would normally get an E11 chord (E,A,D,G,B,E,), this is quite an odd chord and it didn’t sound to nice on its own, but the problem was I wanted the harmonic chimes of the open strings and the only way to do that was to change the tuning. I have now come up with a successful tuning when strummed open produces a Dsus4 chord (D,A,D,G,A,D), which was perfect because I wanted a minor sounding chord for half of the song and major for the rest of it. The sus4 bit means you suspend the 3rd of the root note and raise it to a 4th instead.