transribing guitar chords to midi

[skylinez]

I want to manually put some chords from my guitar into midi, but I don't understand where on the keyboard they should go.

Something like a C chord. x32010 would be the fingering, if anyone gets that who plays guitar., i'm just confused as to what number on the keyboard where they are supposed to go. like the C root note should start at what number on the keyboard?

I can explain more into detail if you are confused.

Thanks!

Also anyone feel like mentoring me in music production?

[chizkelly]

Hi,

I think you best bet is too look up the chorde, this link is a good site to check them out

http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/vpc/piano_chords.htm

rather than work out where each finger would corrolate to the keyboard. Simply take the guitar chorde (in this case C) and look at the equivelant piano chorde on this website. This way is much easier and you will effectivley be playing the same frets on the keys (if that makes sense)

Then simply use the highlighted notes on the website to show you which keys to input on the midi keyboard.


If your new to music production - I can be your mentor (!) , i dont know everything but i might be able to answer some easier questions.

Good Luck

[crumhorn]

In standard tuning the open strings - E A D G B E - correspond to MIDI note numbers 40, 45, 50, 55, 59, 64 - the 6th string is E1 and the 1st string is E3 (some soft/hardware will call these E2 and E4 but not Ableton).

guitar music is normally written on the treble clef notated 1 octave higher than actually played.

Hope that helps.

[chizkelly]

Ah, not too sure about that actually...

what exatly do you watn to do? i was assuming you wanted to translate a song on the guitar to the piano role (midi) in ableton.

What are you hoping to achieve? Are you using your guitar as a midi instrument effectivley?

or translating a song you know on the guitar into midi on ableton?