Shawzin

The Shawzin is a stringed musical instrument from the Orokin era. First seen during The Sacrifice quest as a background decoration, it was later added as both an Orbiter decoration and an Emote that allows players to play their own music.
==Acquisition==
There are multiple variants of Shawzin available in the Market, which grant the player the Orbiter decoration of the purchased instrument. Upon acquiring any Shawzin, the player will also receive the unique Shawzin emote.
There are two Shawzins available without the need for platinum - The Iridos Shawzin can be purchased with Aya, and the Courtly Shawzin is instead awarded from clearing all 12 Shawzin Songs on Virtuoso difficulty scattered throughout The Duviri Experience.
==Variants==
There are several variants of the Shawzin, three of which are skins for the basic Dax's Shawzin (Dawn, Day of the Dead, and Mimica) while the others have a unique sound profile corresponding to guitars in the real world. The Narmer Shawzin is only available for purchase after completing The New War.
AristeiPrimeShawzin.png|Aristei Prime Shawzin(Harp) Access
CorbuShawzin.png|Corbu Shawzin(Electric Guitar, Overdrive)
CourtlyShawzin.png|Courtly Shawzin(Sitar)Complete all 12 Shawzin songs on Virtuoso difficulty in The Duviri Experience
DawnShawzin.png|Dawn Shawzin(Shamisen)
Dax'sShawzin.png|Dax's Shawzin(Shamisen)
DayOfTheDeadShawzin.png|Day Of The Dead Shawzin(Shamisen)
Iridos-Shawzin.png|Iridos Shawzin(Electric Guitar, Overdrive)Formerly from Amazon Prime GamingNow available from Varzia7 
Kira'sShawzin.png|Kira's Shawzin(Synth Guitar)
LonesomeShawzin.png|Lonesome Shawzin(Bell)
Mimica-shawzin.png|Mimica Shawzin(Shamisen) Unique Property - Colors Change to Match WarFrame
NarmerShawzin.png|Narmer Shawzin(Electric Guitar, Distortion)
NelumboShawzin.png|Nelumbo Shawzin(Acoustic Guitar)
TiamatShawzin.png|Tiamat Shawzin(Bass Guitar)
Void'sSongShawzin.png|Void's Song Shawzin(Acapella)
==Mechanics==
To play the Shawzin, players must activate the Shawzin Emote from their Gear wheel, which will make their Warframe kneel down and hold the instrument, while also unlocking the main Shawzin interface. Other players in the squad or inside a Landing Craft can hear the music played on the Shawzin. Other player's Shawzin sounds can be disabled by adjusting "Settings > Audio > Ally Mandachord Volume".
Custom-made songs can be created and Chat linked, or copied to clipboard in order to save them.
Players that have equipped can turn on her percussion track by pressing 4.
===Duviri===
Throughout The Duviri Experience are 12 Shawzins, each with their own preset song. These songs have two playable difficulties: Normal or Virtuoso. Completion of these songs, regardless of difficulty, awards a random Duviri resource, 3 Drifter Intrinsics, and a Decree, once per Shawzin per visit.
===Controls===
The various default controls for the Shawzin include:
PC	PlayStation 	Xbox 	Nintendo Switch 	Description
 	 	 	 	1st String
 	 	 	 	2nd String
 	 	 	 	3rd String
 	Moving Left Stick 	Moving Left Stick 	Moving Left Stick 	Whammy
or	Left D-Pad 	Left D-Pad 	Left D-Pad 	Sky Fret
or	Right D-Pad 	Right D-Pad 	Right D-Pad 	Earth Fret
or	Down D-Pad 	Down D-Pad 	Down D-Pad 	Water Fret
 	Pressing Left Stick () 	Pressing Left Stick () 	Pressing Left Stick () 	Scale: Players can use this key to change scale. Options include: 
*Pentatonic Minor
*Pentatonic Major
*Chromatic
*Hexatonic
*Major
*Minor
*Hirajoshi
*Phrygian
*Yo
 	Right Trigger () 	Right Trigger () 	Right Trigger () 	Songs: This section allows players to select pre-recorded songs to play on the Shawzin. Asides from a handful of default songs, songs played on the Shawzin can also be recorded to share with other players, and in turn pre-recorded songs can also be imported into the player's song library. The maximum number of notes in song for linking in chat is 100. Global limit of notes in a song is 1000 and such songs can be copied to the clipboard and imported from it. Songs can only be copied to the clipboard and pasted on PC, as of now it can not be done on PS4, XB1, or the Switch. When a song is played, a rhythm game will commence where players must time play the Shawzin to the beat of notes falling onto a meter. Players will be given a score based on their performance after the song plays, though this score has no real effect on gameplay. Other options in this section include: 
*Metronome - This option enables the audio cue on the metronome when recording a song. The Metronome is on by default.
* Slow Playback - Enabling this option will slow down the song playback, giving players more time to see the falling notes on the board.
*Auto Play - Enabling this option will make the song play its notes without player input.
 	Pressing Right Stick ()	Pressing Right Stick ()	Pressing Right Stick ()	Switch Instrument: Allows the player to switch between the different types of Shawzins available. If the player has not purchased another Shawzin, this option allows them to directly purchase other Shawzin types on the Market.
*Instruments cannot be switched outside of the Orbiter
 	 	 	 	Exit
On most shawzins, plucking a string while holding down a combination of frets produces a chord instead of a single note, with 12 distinct chords available (4 combinations of frets, 3 available chords per combination). The Tiamat Shawzin does not produce chords, but instead changes the sound to mimic the slap bass technique.
Ongoing Bug: Since The New War update, bindings have not been working on console platforms, being stuck to default with no way to change them even after settings adjustments.
This bug has yet to be fixed as of the latest hotfix to the Angels of the Zariman update.
==Sample Notes ==
Shawzin/Note 	C4	C#4	D4	D#4	E4	F4	F#4	G4	G#4	A4	A#4	B4
Dax's/Dawn/Day Of The Dead/Mimica	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Nelumbo 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Corbu 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Tiamat 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Aristei Prime 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Narmer 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Kira's 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Void's Song 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Courtly 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Lonesome 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Shawzin/Note 	C5	C#5	D5	D#5	E5	F5	F#5	G5	G#5	A5	A#5	B5
Dax's/Dawn/Day Of The Dead/Mimica	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Nelumbo 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Corbu 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Tiamat 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Aristei Prime 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Narmer 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Kira's 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Void's Song 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Courtly 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Lonesome 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Shawzin/Note 	C6	C#6	D6	D#6
Dax's/Dawn/Day Of The Dead/Mimica	 	 	 	
Nelumbo 	 	 	 	
Corbu 	 	 	 	
Tiamat 	 	 	 	
Aristei Prime 	 	 	 	
Narmer 	 	 	 	
Kira's 	 	 	 	
Void's Song 	 	 	 	
Courtly 	 	 	 	
Lonesome 	 	 	 	
==Song Transcription==
Songs played on the Shawzin are stored as a string of numbers, letters, and symbols.https://www.reddit.com/r/Warframe/comments/cxjoii/me_and_a_friend_reverse_engineered_shawzin_songs/ These songs can only be manually recorded for up to 4 minutes with 1000 notes. However, you can import 4m16s songs with 1666 notes.
Each song begins with a number, indicating the scale that the song is played on.
Scale 	Pentatonic Minor	Pentatonic Major	Chromatic	Hexatonic	Major	Minor	Hirajoshi	Phrygian	Yo
Number	1 	2 	3 	4 	5 	6 	7 	8 	9
Every note consists of three characters, with the first character indicating the note to be played. Important to note that letters are case-sensitive and that whammy is not recorded.
Possible First Characters
Frets/Strings 	1	2	1 & 2	3	1 & 3	2 & 3	1 & 2 & 3
None 	B	C	D 	E	F 	G 	H
Sky 	J	K	L 	M	N 	O 	P
Earth 	R	S	T 	U	V 	W 	X
Water 	h	i	j 	k	l 	m 	n
Sky & Earth 	Z	a	b 	c	d 	e 	f
Sky & Water 	p	q	r 	s	t 	u 	v
Earth & Water 	x	y	z 	0	1 	2 	3
Sky & Earth & Water	5	6	7 	8	9 	+ 	/
The following two characters signal where said note is played with 4096 unique positions. The second character tells what measure the note is played in, from A-Z, then a-z, then 0-9, then +, /, for a total of 64 measures where each measure lasts for four seconds. Each measure is divided into 64 parts as the third character represents: A-Z, then a-z, then 0-9, then +, /.
A sample note BAA will represent No Fret + 1st string played in the 1st measure at the 1/64th position of said measure.
===Note Relations===
ID (First Character)/Scale	Pentatonic Minor	Pentatonic Major	Chromatic	Hexatonic	Major	Minor	Hirajoshi	Phrygian	Yo
No Fret + 1 (B) 	C4 	C4 	C4 	C4 	C4 	C4 	C4 	C4 	C#4
No Fret + 2 (C) 	D#4 	D4 	C#4 	D#4 	D4 	D4 	C#4 	C#4 	D#4
No Fret + 3 (E) 	F4 	E4 	D4 	F4 	E4 	D#4 	F4 	E4 	F#4
Sky Fret + 1 (J) 	G4 	G4 	D#4 	F#4 	F4 	F4 	F#4 	F4 	G#4
Sky Fret + 2 (K) 	A#4 	A4 	E4 	G4 	G4 	G4 	A#4 	G4 	A#4
Sky Fret + 3 (M) 	C5 	C5 	F4 	A#4 	A4 	G#4 	C5 	G#4 	C#5
Earth Fret + 1 (R) 	D#5 	D5 	F#4 	C5 	B4 	A#4 	C#5 	A#4 	D#5
Earth Fret + 2 (S) 	F5 	E5 	G4 	D#5 	C5 	C5 	F5 	C5 	F#5
Earth Fret + 3 (U) 	G5 	G5 	G#4 	F5 	D5 	D5 	F#5 	C#5 	G#5
Water Fret + 1 (h) 	A#5 	A5 	A4 	F#5 	E5 	D#5 	A5 	E5 	A#5
Water Fret + 2 (i) 	C6 	C6 	A#4 	G5 	F5 	F5 	C6 	F5 	C#6
Water Fret + 3 (k) 	D#6 	D6 	B4 	A#5 	G5 	G5 	C#6 	G5 	D#6
 
*Whammy will lower these notes by one semitone. 
** Although C4 to D#6 is the Shawzin's playable range across all 9 scale sets, B5 is currently missing and cannot be played without the use of Whammy.
===Example Songs===
;Auld Lang Syne
5BAAJAIJAVJAZMAhKApJA0KA4MBAJBJJBVMBZSBhUBqUCASCIMCUMCZJChKCpJC1KC5MDBJDJCDWCDaBDiJDqUEBSEJMEVMEaJEiKEqJE1KE6UFCSFLMFXMFcSFlUFtUGISGQMGdMGiJGpKGyJG9KHCMHKKHOJHTCHeCHjBHrJH1
Broken up for readability:
5 BAA JAI JAV JAZ MAh KAp JA0 KA4 MBA JBJ JBV MBZ SBh UBq UCA SCI MCU MCZ JCh KCp JC1 KC5 MDB JDJ CDW CDa BDi JDq UEB SEJ MEV MEa JEi KEq JE1 KE6 UFC SFL MFX MFc SFl UFt UGI SGQ MGd MGi JGp KGy JG9 KHC MHK KHO JHT CHe CHj BHr JH1
;Happy Birthday
5KAAKAFMAJKARSAZRAhKAwKA1MA5KBAUBISBQKBgKBlkBohBwSB4RCAMCIiCZiCehChSCpUCxSC5
Broken up for readability:
5 KAA KAF MAJ KAR SAZ RAh KAw KA1 MA5 KBA UBI SBQ KBg KBl kBo hBw SB4 RCA MCI iCZ iCe hCh SCp UCx SC5
;Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
5BAABAIKAQKAYMAgMAoKAxJBAJBIEBQEBYCBhCBpBBxKCBKCIJCQJCYECfECoCCwKDBKDIJDQJDYEDgEDoCDwBEABEIKEQKEYMEgMEpKExJFBJFJEFREFZCFhCFpBFz
Broken up for readability:
5 BAA BAI KAQ KAY MAg MAo KAx JBA JBI EBQ EBY CBh CBp BBx KCB KCI JCQ JCY ECf ECo CCw KDB KDI JDQ JDY EDg EDo CDw BEA BEI KEQ KEY MEg MEp KEx JFB JFJ EFR EFZ CFh CFp BFz
== Bugs== 
*The control keys in the UI are not translated for AZERTY keyboards.
**The UI displays for the song menu, while it is physically bound to .
**The UI displays for the change instrument menu, while it is physically bound to .
**The correct keys are displayed in the key configuration menu in settings.
*Shawzins cannot be switched outside of the orbiter, even in relays or dojos.
==Trivia==
* Its appearance is reminiscent to three-stringed instruments such as the Sanxian or the Shamisen, but is played without a plectrum, much more like a Cigar box Guitar.
*The Narmer Shawzin's appearance is based in one of the explorative sketches made during the development of the Aristei Prime Shawzin.
==External Links==
*Shawzin Songs Megathread! Forum post
== Media ==
 (link to the playlist) A playlist of every shawzin type being played and showcased.
==Patch History==
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