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GUS Musician's Digest       Fri, 6 Jan 95 14:03 PST      Volume 12: Issue   4 

Today's Topics:
                     Power Chords Debut question

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Date: Fri, 6 Jan 95 09:04:38 EST
From: "Burns Fisher, VMS Development  06-Jan-1995 0904" <fisher@skylab.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Power Chords Debut question

Greetings...

I could send this to Eric directly, but I figured it may be of general interest:

I just got Power Chords Debut (my fingers really want to type debug here...you 
can see what kind of work I normally do...) and started playing, and have a few 
comments and questions.  I have to admit that I had not done anything very 
serious with older PC that came with my gus, so what I say is probably nothing 
new.  

1)  If you don't know guitar, it is fairly difficult to compose a chord (I 
think).  In my case, I had a melody from which I was trying to extract a chord.  
It was a fairly weird chord...no obvious name...so I just wanted to specify the 
notes.  Is there an easy way?  I think I finally tuned the guitar to have the 
notes I wanted and left it open.  Is that the best way?

2)  Is it true that one can't start either the melody or the chord rhythm on 
anything other than the first beat of a measure?  I have a cannon-sort of melody 
where I would like to play a second copy of the melody a beat or 2 offset from 
the first "copy".  Is this doable without making a whole new melody that starts 
with an offset?

3)  Once I had put a chord in the pallet and then put a copy of that chord into 
the song, I could not find an easy way to edit the chord so that the edited 
version appeared in the song.  I think this was the notes, but I think I had the 
same problem with melody and chord rhythm.  What would happen is that it would 
get a new version number, and then I would have to delete the original chord 
from the song and copy the new version back to each location in the song.  Is 
there an easier way?

4)  Finally, I was under the impression that you could read in a MIDI file to 
get either melodies or chords.  This seems not to be the case.  At least I could 
not find a way in the obvious places (including help).  Do I remember wrong?  Is 
this a PRO feature, maybe?

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Lest everything I say seem bad, let me say that I found it surprisingly easy 
(despite all the above frustrations) to compose a pretty  nice-sounding little 
ditty.  I also think the visual appearance of Debut is an improvement over the 
orignal P.C.  Nice job, Eric, et al!  And the price is right :-)

Thanks!

Burns

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