附注:
The key/scale of the great highland bagpipes is A
mixolydian, however their music is written with no
sharps or flats. I tabbed this out so the music reads
correctly, but the notes won't be right - for transposition
to other instruments, you would play A# mixolydian,
though again, with a real highland bagpipe, it will be
out of tune as the pipes are not only inbetween pitches
(in comparison to concert pitch of A4 = 440 hz), but
they are also un-even tempered. All of the A notes are
exact octaves of each other, but the two G's are not
perfect octaves of each other. The correct tuning for
the GHB is listed below. Also in this tab, the top line of
the four is for the chanter, the two in the middle are for
the tennor drones (A3), and the bottom for the bass
drone (A2). Also, I'm not sure what type of bagpipes
were used in this song, but they're not GHB, and I've
listed their tuning at the bottom.
The drums aren't actual drums, the album was written
and recorded by two guys, but they employed an entire
commune in helping them record, the drums in this
song are actually a bunch of the members of the
commune clapping, beating on rocks with sticks, and
stomping their feet.
The distorted noise that sounds like an electric guitar is
basically tuned normally, except that it is tuned 50
cents higher, so that the A matches the A on the
bagpipes, but this is basically the only chord it plays so,
it works.
--Modern Bagpipe Tuning--
Drones:
Tennor Drones A3 = A#3 + 33 Cents
Bass Drone A2 = A#2 + 33 Cents
Chanter:
G4 = G#4 + 3 cents (+103 cents)
A4 = A#4 + 33 cents (+133 cents)
B4 = C5 + 35 cents (+135 cents)
C4 = D5 + 20 cents (+220 cents)
D4 = D#5 + 30 cents (+130 cents)
E4 = F5 + 36 cents (+136 cents)
F4 = G5 + 18 cents (+218 cents)
G5 = G#5 + 1 cents (+101 cents)
A5 = A#5 + 33 cents (+133 cents)
(One semitone = 100 cents)
Now, that is based on the GHB's of today, but the
tuning standards have changed over the years and for
this particular song, the tuning of the pipes is:
--This Song's Bagpipe Tuning--
Drones:
Tennor Drones G2 = G#3 (+100 cents)
Bass Drone G2 = G#2 (+100 cents)
Chanter:
G4 =
A4 = A4 + 50 cents (+50 cents)
B4 = B4 + 50 cents (+50 cents)
C4 = C#4 + 50 cents (+150 cents)
D4 = D4 + 50 cents (+50 cents)
E4 = E4 + 50 cents (+50 cents)
F4 =
G5 = G#5 (+100 cents)
A5 = A5 + 50 cents (+50 cents)
