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Aren't you still fighting the fact that the frets themselves are tuned as 12TET?
by bwanab 2y ago
Aren't you still fighting the fact that the frets themselves are tuned as 12TET?
- elevation 2y agoThe fight increases the faster/further you jump around the circle of 5ths. The 12TET fret spacing aligns octaves and 5ths with JI, so if you tune for a JI `I` chord, your other chords will be internally JI but only your `V` chord will be spaced perfectly from the `I` chord. The other chords will be closer to perfect JI the closer they are to `I` on the circle of fifths. This microtuning isn't perfect in theory, but it's a favorable compromise for a lot of western music, especially for legato strumming where the inter-string intervals are heard more often than the inter-fret intervals.