Is there any connection between the notes that you sing and the notes you play? I heard that Rivers Cuomo used different tuning on his guitar and it was somehow connected with his singing and I got confused. I have a notion that you're not supposed to sing either flat or sharp notes and that's it. Is there more to it?
>>60644014
what are you on about
You can sing flat and sharp notes all you want. He changed the tune of his guitar likely to change the tune of a song itself.
Changing the tune of a song will step it up or down a few semitones, and he adjusted it to his voice, because the original tonality had notes he couldn't reach
>>60644085
What is the tune of a song?
>>60644143
The tonality it's in. We organize the musical notes in twelve notes. There are twelve tonalities, each having a scale starting in one of these notes.
Looking at a piano might help you understand this concept. If you play any song exactly one key "earlier" than it would be played, you'll be reproducing a song one semitone under the original.
If you have a deep voice and the song you want to sing is originally sang by someone with a higher pitched voice, you'll have to bring it down a few semitones.
OP most weezer sogs are in half step down if thats what you're asking
>>60644293
Thanks!
>>60644293
One more thing. What's the difference between tonality and key of a song?
>>60644421
the key is more about if it's major, minor, or a mode i think. tonality is just which letter it starts on.
>>60644421
Your mum m8
>>60644371
But why changing guitar tuning? Just play lower notes. What am I missing?
>>60644663
So you can play a G major in the tone of F#. So you can play an E major in the tone of D#. Get my drift? Kinda like how you use a capo, but the other way
