Comment Lots of Off-By-One Errors around! (Score 1) 111
Are you counting the notes, or the intervals? Are you counting the root once or twice (1 and 8)? Got fencepost errors?
I end up dealing with this a bit more, because I play mountain dulcimer, and dulcimer tab notation starts at 0 instead of 1, counting from the open strings to N frets in a mostly-diatonic scale. (Usually the tuning on the middle string means you end up with at least one more note available, plus most dulcimers these days add the 6.5 fret (which gets you the 7th note in the melody string's scale, as opposed to a flat-7th Mixolydian), which gives you a few more choices.