Fantasía en Ut Mayor, por Hans G. Lundahl, el Miércoles de Ceniza de 2025, París

Arpeggi Jumping One String

What are Open String Chords? · Arpeggi Jumping One String · Summing Up the Use · Why Burl Ives Didn't Give Chords for All Keys

If your chord jumps one string, it is five strings wide, and only one, lowermost or uppermost E, is outside.

This means only two versions, higher and lower, are possible.

		E		A		D		G		B		E
Lower
C		3		X		2		0		1		X
Am		0		X		2		2		1		X
G		3		X		0		0		0		X
D7		2		X		0		2		1		X
Higher
C		X		3		X		0		1		0
Am		X		0		X		2		1		0
G		X		2		X		0		3		3
D7		X		3		X		2		3		2

It can be noted, I love both Classic music and Cowboy music - but I know more about Classic music, that's why I write it more often./HGL

What shall one say about jumping two strings. The thing I come up with for D7 lacks the root, it doubles the third, and so I recommend omitting one occurrence of the third:

		E		A		D		G		B		E
C		0		X		X		0		1		3
Am		0		X		X		2		1		0
G		3		X		X		0		0		3
D7		(2)		X		X		2		1		(2)

What are Open String Chords?

What are Open String Chords? · Arpeggi Jumping One String · Summing Up the Use · Why Burl Ives Didn't Give Chords for All Keys

Burl Ives gave some of those for his "Songs for Picking and Singing" - may God forgive him his having been a freemason, as much as possible, but the idea is good.

Back when I was not yet Catholic, not even Lutheran, but loosely Evangelical Church Hopper, I was volunteering to learn some instrument to play in the Salvation Army. I first thought of guitar, but got stuck on a Classical G chord. Both the low E at one end and the high E at the other end are pushed down on fret three, and some chords in between higher up. This is a very uncomfortable and straining position for the left hand, arguably some barred chords are even worse, but the chord as such is a "strainer" between those who "pick up" the Classical guitar and those who don't.

In German - we were in Vienna, Austria, "anstrengend" both means "taking an effort" and "straining" - while "Anstrengung" is mainly "effort." I was complaining on how the chord was "anstrengend" (straining!) and the Salvation Army officer said about any intrument taking "Anstrengung" (effort).

I replied about a guitarist I had seen in the US, a friend of the last family we were staying long with, perhaps a suitor to one of the two daughters (at 9 I was obviously not his rival), and said I had seen him being "careless" - I should better have said "carefree" - and definitely effortless about where he put his left hand fingers and it sounded good. Picking on the "careless" part, the Salvation Army officer told me she didn't believe that.

I ended up with a tuba instead, and was too small to blow that very well, but even so ...

What was that guitarist in Anaheim doing? He was doing open string chords. One chord I am sure he didn't use was a Classic, full six strings, chord of G major. The one that strains the fingers so much.

I will here give three versions of open string chords in G, never mind if Burl Ives used or didn't use all of them. I'll give subdominant, C, subdominant parallel, and in major keys this is also called minor double-dominant, Am, I'll give the tonic, G, and I'll give the dominant, D7.

But first I will explain what is different. A Classic chord needs to be useful for quick strumming (and that is done pretty often in Salvation Army String Concerts), but the music style Burl Ives catered to was - not so much Country Western as in Dolly Parton, but more like Cowboy songs or Hillbilly. He often used some bluegrass type arpeggio.

If you strum, you need a good aim to avoid hitting all six strings. If you pick arpeggi, you can do very well with four strings. I'll give versions for the four lower, four midmost and four upper strings with each chord.

	Four Lower
C		0		3		2		0		X		X
Am		0		3		2		2		X		X
G		3		2		0		0		X		X
D7		2		3		0		2		X		X
	Four Midmost
C		X		3		2		0		1		X
Am		X		0		2		2		1		X
G		X		2		0		0		0		X
D7		X		0		4		2		1		X
	Four Higher
C		X		X		2		0		1		0
Am		X		X		2		2		1		2
G		X		X		0		0		0		3
D7		X		X		0		2		1		2

If you look at first and last versions of G, you will see how, taken together, they involve that combinations of two outermost fingers both on 3rd fret, and fingers between higher up, which stumped me so.

Rock musicians who do electric guitar actually avoid all open strings, as much as possible. How do they avoid this? Well, usually they have more than one guitarist, and each takes only part of the chord ... but this wasn't rock, this was a style that is much more relaxed - and not strained for the fingers of a Classic G chord bent.

I wonder if there aren't Classic musicians who have another version of G, all six strings, with fingers in between further down instead?

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
St. Severus of Vienne
8.VIII.2022

Viennae, in Gallia, sancti Severi, Presbyteri et Confessoris; qui ex India, Evangelii praedicandi causa, laboriosam peregrinationem suscepit, et, cum ad praefatam urbem devenisset, ingentem Paganorum multitudinem verbo et miraculis ad Christi fidem convertit.

Sonata Nemetodurica Secunda

For guitar - per chitaram hispanicam - pour guitare.

Rhapsodia Laudunensis

Rhapsodia Defensae pro Chitara Hispanica

Rhapsodia Gesediana II

Rhapsodia Gedesiana I

Sonata Alfortville

Lubie de Valse

Si quelqu'un trouve que ça se danse mieux comme menuet ou polonaise ou mazourka ou polonaise de Hanebo (abrégé comme "Hambo" en Suède), allez-y. C'est en trois temps, au moins. Et le thème est apparenté à Folie d'Espagne.

Sonatina della Follia Spagnola

Deux remarques: Quand j'emprunte un thème je le marque clairement, comme ici ou dans la fugue finale de Sonata Pierwsza dla Pianoforta; Le manuscrit a été donné à des musiciens dans le métro, il ne peut donc être volé de moi. Car il y a quelques nuits, entre vendredi et samedi, on m'a volé un sac qui contenait entre autres choses mes derniers manuscrits. Aller à la police? Bon, j'avais essayé ça à Beauvais, j'ai été traité avec mépris exquis./HGL

Sonata Pentatonica Modulans

Nouveau scan/new scan:

Notandum: troisième ligne, deuxième mesure, la deuxième note est, si possible sur D et 5, mais sinon sur G et 0 va aussi (c'est mieux si c'est une autre chorde que G, vu que la note suivante est sur G et 2, alors ils peuvent sonner ensemble).

Old scan/vieux scan:

Errata: première ligne, quatrième mesure, la quatrième note est sur G et 0; troisième ligne, deuxième mesure, la deuxième note est, si possible sur D et 5, mais sinon sur G et 0 va aussi (c'est mieux si c'est une autre chorde que G, vu que la note suivante est sur G et 2, alors ils peuvent sonner ensemble); troisième ligne dernière mesure, dernière note, c'est comme on voit déjà sur E aigu, il s'agit de 0; dernière ligne, première mesure, la 3 doit être sur B et non sur E aigu.

Sonata Octavarum Transpositionum, bis, ter

sive - francogallice - Sonatine XVI bis, Mi Mineur

ter, varia versio eiusdem:

Ad propositum Sonatae Octavarum Transpositionum (Eng/Fr)

ENG

I was tired when writing, otherwise I would probably have transposed it for a neater tablature. As I now see playing 10-7-4-0 on thinner E string is hard or impossible on successive eighth notes (crotchets), so I corrected in the comment to (see below). I might correct it as is, or I might transpose to easier ambitus.

FR

En écrivant j'étais fatigué, autrement j'aurais probablement transposé pour une tablature mieux jouable. Comme je le vois maintenant, jouer sur des croches successives les 10-7-4-0 sur la chorde E de discante est difficile ou impossible, donc dans le commentaire j'ai corrigé en (voir en bas). Je pourrais corriger la sonatine telle quelle ou autrement transposer pour un ambitus moins difficile.

E:10-7-X-0
B: X -X-9-X
et c.

Sonata Octavarum Transpositionum

Sive ... Sonatine XVI pour Guitare

Guitare Sonatine XV

Sonate II pour Clarinette

Aussi, même partition, une octave plus basse, Sonatine XIV pour Guitarre

La clarinette a été essayé, on vient de récommender un tempo de 80 MM au moins. J'imagine qu'il entend "par blanche pointée" (per dotted halfnote).

Canon Jazz per tre Chitarre

Tres Canones

Le manuscrit est un cadeau anniversaire pour la volontaire de l'Ordre De Malte, ce Samedi passé.

Sonata Brevis

Le manuscrit est un cadeau anniversaire pour la volontaire de l'Ordre de Malte Samedi passé.