A conjecture on why we have 5 guitar frets

[Kermit4Prez]

Because guitars have five frets until you go to the next string, which is because the guitar tuning is based on fifth notes to make major/minor chords easier to play.

TADA!

[unpurexdoa]

sorry, didn't catch that death au.

In laymens then, no, this theory still doesn't work. the reason they probably set it up like they did is because any simple chord structure ( or atleast the fingers you use in that chord structure ) Can be simulated. Melodies can be simulated easily to.

say we are playing a major scale. something simple, say... G# as an example?

- 1(Yellow/Blue/Orange) 3(Blue/Orange) 4(Orange)
- 2(Red/Yellow/Blue/Orange) 4 (Red/yellow/blue/orange)
-1(Green) 3 (Green/Red) 5(Green/Red/Yellow)
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But remember, because of octaves and all that, this pattern continuassly repeats.

The controllers design is just as Musically thought out as the charts.

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Because guitars have five frets until you go to the next string, which is because the guitar tuning is based on fifth notes to make major/minor chords easier to play.

TADA!

Except the b and g string friend.

[akedrou]

In laymens then, no, this theory still doesn't work. the reason they probably set it up like they did is because any simple chord structure ( or atleast the fingers you use in that chord structure ) Can be simulated. Melodies can be simulated easily to.

say we are playing a major scale. something simple, say... G# as an example?

- 1(Yellow/Blue/Orange) 3(Blue/Orange) 4(Orange)
- 2(Red/Yellow/Blue/Orange) 4 (Red/yellow/blue/orange)
-1(Green) 3 (Green/Red) 5(Green/Red/Yellow)
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1) That's rather not the simple way to play a major scale. First you have the C played as 5 on G instead of 1 on B (which in context of a scale makes no sense at all) and secondly, there's a pretty standard 2-octave major scale pattern that moves up and down the fretboard (at standard interval tuning)...

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e                           1 2
B                       2 4
G                 1 3 4
D           1 3 4
A     1 2 4
E 2 4

2) Charts care more about /pitch/ than /fret location/. An octave scale would almost certainly be charted G-R-Y-B-O-Y-B-O rather than R-B-G-R-B-G-Y-B. Try it and see.
3) The controller design was likely considered in two ways - First, Kotti's "5 is a nice number and 1 more than number of fingers you have" and secondly vedi's "5 frets between strings (except B)" (though vedi said G)

[mayson miller69]

i would think so, but maybe it might not work

[amak11]

Yet again this is a theory and is not to be taken seriously. This was more of a thought i had while day dreaming. Im not saying that it directly applies to fretting (i should have titled things differently).

[Rapt0r]

Yet again this is a theory and is not to be taken seriously. This was more of a thought i had while day dreaming. Im not saying that it directly applies to fretting (i should have titled things differently).

Just like any post you make.

[felixdaman18]

OMG, it's just a game, you guys are getting too serious about this.

[Electro Tomato]

This was more of a thought i had while day dreaming.

amak, have you ever told yourself "To post or not to post, that is the question"?

[unpurexdoa]

In laymens then, no, this theory still doesn't work. the reason they probably set it up like they did is because any simple chord structure ( or atleast the fingers you use in that chord structure ) Can be simulated. Melodies can be simulated easily to.

say we are playing a major scale. something simple, say... G# as an example?

- 1(Yellow/Blue/Orange) 3(Blue/Orange) 4(Orange)
- 2(Red/Yellow/Blue/Orange) 4 (Red/yellow/blue/orange)
-1(Green) 3 (Green/Red) 5(Green/Red/Yellow)
-
-
-

1) That's rather not the simple way to play a major scale. First you have the C played as 5 on G instead of 1 on B (which in context of a scale makes no sense at all) and secondly, there's a pretty standard 2-octave major scale pattern that moves up and down the fretboard (at standard interval tuning)...

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e                           1 2
B                       2 4
G                 1 3 4
D           1 3 4
A     1 2 4
E 2 4

2) Charts care more about /pitch/ than /fret location/. An octave scale would almost certainly be charted G-R-Y-B-O-Y-B-O rather than R-B-G-R-B-G-Y-B. Try it and see.
3) The controller design was likely considered in two ways - First, Kotti's "5 is a nice number and 1 more than number of fingers you have" and secondly vedi's "5 frets between strings (except B)" (though vedi said G)

You gotta point, but no matter what theory you use, notes are subjetive, meaning, when you play out your theory like you thought, and it still doesnt look right, you can change it to where it does...

[Kermit4Prez]

Yet again this is a theory and is not to be taken seriously. This was more of a thought i had while day dreaming. Im not saying that it directly applies to fretting (i should have titled things differently).

Just like any post you make.

It's not to be taken seriously if people disagree with it.

[vedicardi]

very few guitars have 24 frets

As a real guitar player of 7 years i can say that's a load of scheizer
24 fret guitars are actually quite common... it's even a standard in some bands (e.g. a7x, dream theater etc)
and the theory wouldn't work, considering you don't always go up frets when you go up a note, for example if you sweeped an a minor arpeggio starting on 5th fret E, according to your theory the chart would go O B Y Y R Y Y B O, and that looks quite retarded when you're actually going up when the sweep goes down and has random doublestrums. yeah i know that is a lot to take in but you should check real guitar theory before you go making silly little theorys. hope that didnt look like a little flamefest :P

obviously metal bands use 24s more than anyone else, but if you go into a store, there are going to be much less 24s than any other variety

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Yet again this is a theory and is not to be taken seriously. This was more of a thought i had while day dreaming. Im not saying that it directly applies to fretting (i should have titled things differently).

theories have something behind them. this is more like a hypothesis

[amak11]

Considering a hypothesis is a theory (accordong to micorsoft office thesarus). If you can remember in your science classes, you are typically asked to write down a hypothesis (or thesis). A hypothesis is a basically a guess on what happens or about what it is. I will change the name to something that suits this topic more

[drihscol]

you know it could perfectly work with open strums...
because if it went from fret 5 to open then in theory it should go orange open,
instead of orange orange.

[vedicardi]

Considering a hypothesis is a theory (accordong to micorsoft office thesarus). If you can remember in your science classes, you are typically asked to write down a hypothesis (or thesis). A hypothesis is a basically a guess on what happens or about what it is. I will change the name to something that suits this topic more

do you have any idea what a thesarus is for?

and you are basically guessing, so hypothesis would make sense, although I guess your guess wasn't educated at all, so never mind.

[Electro Tomato]

A theory is a collected group of hypotheses that have been proven multiple times.