XPost: comp.music.misc, comp.music.research, rec.music.theory   
      
   On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 clayvernon@gmail.com wrote:   
      
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   > Could I compile this with GCC on a Mac?   
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   The program compiles under FreeBSD w/ the -lstdc++ flag and StdAfx.h   
   renamed stdafx.h [which appears to check vc version and do nothing about   
   it...] So it should compile on a mac.   
      
      
     The output is slightly different that the included F-A-Db-tuning.txt   
   file. The chord part of the  output starts with an F chord but the file   
   starts with F#/Gb (possibly a fencepost type error?) Is it from the same   
   version?   
      
   What are lines 1,2 and 4 of the output tellin me?   
      
     0 ***************************   
   8 9 10 9 10 11 10 11 12   
      
   F     A     C#/Db F     A     C#/Db   
   0 4 4 4 4 4   
      
   On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, techbear wrote:   
   > The heart of the program is the JudgeFitness() function, which is in   
   > charge of looking at a single chord fingering, and determining its   
   > score, a measure of how easy this chord seems to be to play.   
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   > the current JudgeFitness() test is simplistic and non-optimal.  A   
   > better way to construct the function might be to somehow model my   
   > fingers, examining exactly how I would place each finger on each   
   > string.  I haven't got a clue how to do that, yet. :)   
      
   A comment or two in this part of the code would be nice, If it could know   
   about bars and partial bars --You might make and that it's easier for   
   different fingers to be on different frets if the are on adjacent strings   
   above a bar. Possibly you could give bonus points if the lowerest few   
   strings are on the same fret and the higher string are all fretted higher,   
   and if a single string is really hurting the score, drop it, especially if   
   it is the highest or lowest. And you might even give bonus points for   
   matching a regular chord pattern that you find easy to make --this would   
   probably be good for a version/mode that lets you input a set of chords   
   for a particular song and looks for a tuning for it. Play something   
   normally impossible w/ just open C A E G and D forms...   
      
   > The .importance member of the ChordType class is especially arbitrary.   
   > It's a weight so that major and minor chords (hopefully) come out more   
   > easy to play than augmented and diminished chords.   
      
   This could be easily weighted to find a tuning for a particular song   
   too...   
      
   > I assume I'll   
   > mostly play major and minor chords.  However, I don't really know the   
   > true universal chord distribution across all popular songs, or even all   
   > songs I play.  I have some ideas about how to find out, though...   
   Alternately, the major and minor are harder cus you play them all the time   
   so you'll learn 'em, and the occasional augmented and diminished are easy   
   so you can drop to them easier when you barely know them (theown out for   
   consideration w/ no claim it's a good idea)   
      
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