2nd try of In Thee (tab)

[Dan Lindfors]

> > Last night I've tried to check it up. What I found in
> > my encyclopedia was that sometimes you can even use double signs for
> > lowering or highering (is that english?) the notes, that is F# # would mean a
> >  F made to a
> > G! The reason for this strange notation, I suppose, has to do
with...
>
>
> Actually I think that the reason lies in good ole physics.  In a
> natural scale F## would not be the same as a G and C# wouldn't be the
> same as a Db etc.  But because today's instruments are almost
> exclusively tuned in X tuning (sorry, but you'll have to insert the
> English word for X, because I forgot it just now) to help playing in
> different keys they in practise are the same note.
>
> By the way the reason that there exists Bach's toccatas and fugues in
> all imaginable keys is that he tried to make the (then all new)
> X-tuning famous.  And now it is famous, although I don't think that all
> credit on that goes to Bach.
>
> A good singer, violist, etc., can actually sing or play those notes and
> the difference is just hearable.
>
>         //niko

Interesting! I makes the # # notation understandable. But this would not
quite explain those guitarchord notations, would it? Why name the
chord as F#m/E# and not F#/F? Could it be that the song is in A
major and therefore from the beginning you, so to speak, already have # for C,
F and G?
Where is Doctor Music?