You guys will love this book! The charts are laid out extremely well and there's discussion and exercises to go with the various tunes. This is a great learning tool with the payoff at the end of getting to play some really nice tunes.

Hi Greg,

I don't see mirrored fourths in the poll, so I'd like to remind everyone that collections of music for players of fourths are available at any music store--in the piano section.


Mad Monk.

Hi Randy,

There are many ways that someone who is using a mirrored 4ths tuning could use the book.

If you have a 12-string, and you are using a tuning like Rob's Mirrored 4ths, where the melody is the same as MR, all of the melody parts would be playable (just add 2 to the fret number).

On the bass side, all of the chords are specified, in addition to the notated part, and the bass part doesn't go lower than E very often, so it wouldn't be too hard to adapt. The fingerings, string numbers and fret numbers wouldn't apply, of course, but you can still read the pitches and rhythms.

There are also lead sheets for all 14 songs in the back of the book with no StaffTab elements, just the melody written in a standard notation font and accompaniment chords specified.

My main interest in the poll was determining how many people would be unable to play all the charts exactly as written because on certain 10-string tunings (Classic and MR) the melody strings don't go low enough in pitch to play all the pieces as written, they do go low enough for several of the songs that don't use the lowest melody string. So to take full advantage of StaffTab, players using those tunings might want to wait for a different version of the book. Which I will most likely get around to, but probably not for a few months.

Or they could choose this moment to make the leap to Baritone Melody

So the book will be usable by anyone, but the specific StaffTab notation will work best for 10-string Baritone Melody and Deep Baritone Melody, and 12-string Classic and MR.

Thanks for your comment and the chance to clarify.

Sorry for being snide...didn't mean that there was anyone who couldn't use your book...

Mad Monk.

I take no offense, and was actually grateful for the opportunity to explain that aspect of things a bit more clearly.

So.....thanks!