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(@greatwhitenorth)
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I'm trying to learn Susie Q by CCR. It's a fairly easy song I recommend learning it if you're just getting into hammer-ons. But when you look at the Rhythm Guitar part you see:

Rhythm guitar plays Em A C H Em (9Em 2A 1C 1H 3Em)

All easy chords too! Except for that one... H? Isn't there no such thing as an H chord or am I just stupid? Can someone explain that to me?

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(@greybeard)
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You have a German music score. The Germans use the letter H for the note B and, just to confuse matters, B is what they call Bb.

The tabber is Swedish, so maybe they use it too. :?:

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(@margaret)
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You have a German music score. The Germans use the letter H for the note B and, just to confuse matters, B is what they call Bb.

:shock: Say WHAT?!

:?:

:!:

Why H?

And why then call a Bb a B? :? Why not call it an Hb?

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(@jasonrunguitar)
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I learn something new everyday...looks like today it's how to play an H chord :wink:

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(@margaret)
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And to think, I always told my piano kids that a note named H did not exist. "Nooo, after G it starts over with A, B, C.....in alphabetical order." :twisted:

Margaret

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(@musenfreund)
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You have a German music score. The Germans use the letter H for the note B and, just to confuse matters, B is what they call Bb.

The tabber is Swedish, so maybe they use it too. :?:

Yep, they do. I remember talking with a Swede about it on another board long ago.

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(@redneckrocker)
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Sooo.... In Germany it goes A B H C C# D D# E F F# G G# A?

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(@anonymous)
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no, after d, they just use people's names. hans, gruber, gruber sharp, wilhelm, etc...


   
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(@margaret)
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Sooo.... In Germany it goes A B H C C# D D# E F F# G G# A?
no, after d, they just use people's names. hans, gruber, gruber sharp, wilhelm, etc...
:lol:

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(@greybeard)
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Weeeeeelllllllllllllllll, no.

The Germans don't use "sharp" (#) and "flat" (b). They use "is" (sharp) and "es" (flat), so Gmaj would be G, A, H, C, D, E, Fis, G.

Fmaj is F, G, A, B (aka Bb), C, D, E, F.

Bb would be B, C, D, Ees, F, G, A, B (2 flats)

I sometimes think that they only keep this system because you can then play "BACH" - Bb, A, C, B.

The Germans also have a standard phonetic alphabet Anton, Berta, Cesar, Dora, Emil, Friedrich, Gustav, Heinrich, Ida, Yot, Konrad, Ludwig, Martha, Nordpol, Otto, Paula, Quelle, Richard, Siegfried, Theodor, Ulrich, Viktor, Wilhelm, Xanthippe, Ypsilon, Zeppelin.

Both J (Yot) and Y (Ypsilon) have pronounceable letter names, so there is no need to give any other name.

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I sometimes think that they only keep this system because you can then play "BACH" - Bb, A, C, B.
Bach (Johann Sebastian) used to improvise melodies with his own surname.
I thought music was an international language? Oh wait, we can only play western music...
The music is international but everyone uses different ways to name the notes. For example, we use "do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si" and the Italian people as well ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solfege ).


   
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(@causnorign)
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AFAIK there are several differant scales in foreign music that differ from our chromatic scale. I don't know what they are or where they come from, but they are there, somewhere. And I certainly don't know what they name their notes.


   
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Greybeard
Swedish scores is using same signs as the germans. I think it is due to the fact that historical swedish musicians was more influenced by german music than by english music.

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(@rik-anderson)
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And why then call a Bb a B? :? Why not call it an Hb

'Cos that's a pencil :D :shock: :D

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