Music Calculator

Conventions Notation has assumptions behind it. We assume that we all know a half note is twice as long as a quarter note. We assume … Read more

The string player hates to hear it. It is not the howl of feedback or the buzz of a fretted note. It is the sudden … Read more

Have you ever had the experience where you turn a guitar peg maybe a 1/4 of an inch and it goes from perfectly in tune … Read more

Your hands aren’t necessarily at fault for having to tune your guitar so hard; the issue lies with the gear ratio of tuner itself. You … Read more

If you’ve ever glanced through some sheet music you may have noticed they writes out three quarter notes with ties rather than a single dotted … Read more

Most of us don’t realize when we begin to feel our strings going slack until it’s too late, and first sign isn’t typically a snapped … Read more

The guitar just doesn’t feel right when you change strings. Maybe it’s because the new low E digs into your fingers or the high E … Read more

When you first play a twelve-string guitar, what you experience is resistance. But that’s more a matter of tension than skill. On a twelve-string, a … Read more

Snap! A quick little ping and a string just snapped mid strum. If you have ever plucked away at a twelve string, played a bouzaki … Read more

It is something about hearing someone bend a string just right to hit the pitch on no frets at all. They are bending not just … Read more

After entering the key you want to play in and tuning, it works out what capo placement is right for you, no maths needed. As … Read more

Most digital devices and pianos is now routinely tuned to an equal tempered system which sacrifices all other intervals to allow for modulation into different … Read more

Remember what it’s like to finally order up a custom set of strings, take them home, carefully install them on your guitar and then discover … Read more

You pluck a string on a guitar half way along and listen as it sparkles with sound. That’s not magic; that’s physics. You played just … Read more

Your thumb is resting cleanly on the fingerboard and your index finger is gently touching the node while you’re stopped on a high D string. … Read more