Guitar Chords on piano roll

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Hey FP was just wondering if anyone on here knows any good resources to find out how to translate guitar chords to a piano roll. A lot of people think i mean playing the same chord on piano i don't, i mean emulating a guitar chord on a daw, because i know the way i play most chords on piano wouldn't be the same. Like if i was playing a normal block chord on the piano lets say c Major it would just be c e g but with every string you hit on a guitar its got to be on different octaves other notes and even some repeating i guess. Anyway if anyone has anything it would be greatly appreciated.
 
It's kinda hard to explain without pulling up a piano roll, but the best way to do it is to pull up a guitar chord and find the adjacent notes on the piano. It's kind of a long painstaking process. But I'll try to help. for example Cmajor chord you would play the E2 C3 E3 G3 B3 AND C4. Play these in a slightly staggered way to starting with the lowest in pitch to give it a guitar strumming sound. Add a little reverb and chorus and chorus and it should sound pretty natural.
 
A relevant post from the past

bandcoach said:
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guitarNotes.png

Base pitches and MIDI NN for each string are: E3~64, B2~59, G2~55, D2~50, A1~45, E1~40​

Several Guitar chords on each of A, B, C, D, E, F and G. The guitar is shown at notation octave, but played back at sounding octave; the piano is at notation and sounding octave.

A
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-A.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-A.png


aPianoRoll.png


B
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-B.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-B.png


bPianoRoll.png


C
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-C.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-C.png


cPianoRoll.png


D
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-D.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-D.png


dPianoRoll.png


E
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-E.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-E.png


ePianoRoll.png


F
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-F.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-F.png


fPianoRoll.png


G
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-G.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-G.png


gPianoRoll.png


I leave the flat/sharp naming notes to you to sort out.


Use the first chart in conjunction with the notation to work out the note numbers for each chord in the lower charts.

Usual caveat about FL octave numbers by default being set 2 higher than the equivalent to most other daws (Band-in-a-Box is the other dw that does this)
 
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Thank you to both of you guys really nice posts from both. To bandcoach i get some of what you are saying to me and the resources are stupidly helpful i'm just really slow at reading sheet music, which is i guess lazy, but if you wanted to put that into piano roll it would be crazy helpful to me and greatly appreciated. Anyway thank you both will be coming back to this post for awhile.
 
be careful: Note that keleveraone has quoted the written pitch not the sounding pitch, which should be E[SUB]1[/SUB]C[SUB]2[/SUB]E[SUB]2[/SUB]G[SUB]2[/SUB]C[SUB]3[/SUB]E[SUB]3[/SUB].

Some additional notes, you would not normally play the low E (E[sub]1[/sub], as it would provide incorrect harmonic information about teh chord (there are strong B's and G[sup]#[/sup]'s in an E played on any instrument - the nature of the overtone series). Also a C major chord does not have a B in it, but only C-E-G in various positions......

If you choose to use other tunings then all of the above advice goes out the window......
 
bandcoach said:
be careful: Note that keleveraone has quoted the written pitch not the sounding pitch, which should be E[SUB]1[/SUB]C[SUB]2[/SUB]E[SUB]2[/SUB]G[SUB]2[/SUB]C[SUB]3[/SUB]E[SUB]3[/SUB].

Some additional notes, you would not normally play the low E (E[SUB]1[/SUB], as it would provide incorrect harmonic information about teh chord (there are strong B's and G[SUP]#[/SUP]'s in an E played on any instrument - the nature of the overtone series). Also a C major chord does not have a B in it, but only C-E-G in various positions......

If you choose to use other tunings then all of the above advice goes out the window......
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oops did't see the b typo in that C major chord. but yeah Bandcoach has it set up right. The low pitch E when playing the guitar depends on the guitarists. while not neccesiarily a part of the chord a lot of them will still play it
 
AAS Strum Electric GS-1 automatically voices it correctly for you, if your into that kinda thing..
 
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