AUTO-ADMIN: Non-MP3, WAV, OGG, SoundCloud, YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter and Facebook links in this post have been protected automatically. Once the member reaches 5 posts the links will function as normal.
Hi! I have to admit that I am somewhat confused by the fretboard view of shreddage 2x. I own a 7-string myself and while I'm totally not good at playing it I thought at least I understand how tab notation works. I know it as "lowest sounding string at the bottom", like this: Code: Select all (#)
e|---0---1---3---
B|---0---1---0---
G|---1---2---0---
D|---2---3---0---
A|---2---3---2---
E|---0---1---3---
E F GNow in Shreddage 2x the thick low sounding string is at the top and the higher sounding notes still go towards the right. This doesn't really make sense to me. If I'm turning this the right way in my head it's like I'd be seeing the fretboard of someone standing and playing in front of me with a left-handed guitar, which is very confusing for someone with a right handed guitar used to seing the low strings at the bottom because that's how tabs are written.
I'd be all in favor for a left-handed view option if that helps left-handed players. The way I see it the current solution might be confusing to them too. Can anyone confirm?
But there is more to the fretboard that is confusing me
. For example G and G# are shown at the same position on the fretboard. When I set the string selection to the lowest string and I try to play the range beyond the 24th fret It sounds like I'm playing beyond the 24th fret but the fretboard ends there and the marker is stuck at the 24th.Now I don't have a lot of experience with this and don't know if there is a convention, but isn't the marker supposed to go between the frets where the finger would be put while playing? Or if not that then at least on the fret that the string is touching? When I select the 6th string with the keyswitch and try out how deep the range goes it seems to only go as low as E and E and F are shown on the same position of the fretboard too (open string) and F# is highlighting the fret where F would be. I'm confused.
When I switch to the "perform" view and select strings with the keyswitches they are named: B E A D G B E, which is standards seven-string tuning as far as I know. But that doesn't go as low as G which shreddage can play just fine. So it's hard for me to grasp what tuning my virtual guitar actually has so that I could have an idea of for example which chords I could slide where. Let's say I want to play something like this:
Code: Select all (#)
e|--------------
B|--------------
G|--------------
D|--------------
A|---4-/-8------
E|---4-/-8------
B|--------------
Code: Select all (#)
e|--------------
B|--------------
G|--------------
D|--------------
A|---4-/-9------
E|---4-/-9------
B|--------------
Is this something that maybe could be fixed? Or am I doing something wrong?
