What is the meaning of "half a step down"?
I found the following conversation in a movie. Please someone tell me what is the meaning of "half a step down" in the following conversation.
Do you know how to tune a guitar?
Yeah
Half a step down.
Top answer
I went and looked at the script. It is awfully spare. To tune a guitar half a step down is to tune the strings E-flat, A-flat, D-flat, G-flat, B-flat, E-flat.
- I went and looked at the script.
- It is awfully spare.
- To tune a guitar half a step down is to tune the strings E-flat, A-flat, D-flat, G-flat, B-flat, E-flat.
- Why you would do that, I don't know.
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I went and looked at the script. It is awfully spare. To tune a guitar half a step down is to tune the strings E-flat, A-flat, D-flat, G-flat, B-flat, E-flat. Why you would do that, I don't know.
0dileepaHalf a step down.
'whole step' and 'half step' are terms used in music.
If you have access to a piano, you can play an A followed by a B to hear the tonal distance that's called a whole step. From B to C is a half step. Tuning an instrument down a half step is an instance of the unusual technique called scordatura (the technique of alt
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