Actually most guitarists use fingerings and play fingerings which would be something very similar to playing from tablature.
Thomas Am Die, 2003-12-09 um 13.25 schrieb Christopher Schaub: > The problem with standard notation is its lack of specificity. You can standard > notate a Cmaj triad and play it many different places on the neck. Now voice > leading would give you some clues, but not always, especially if you have many > strings like the lute -- the bass could be an open string or fretted -- a very > different sound! Tab takes away all of the mystery and preserves the sonority > of the composer's original intent, even if you're sight reading. Sight reading > tab is a ton easier than standard notation. Once you get good at reading tab, > you'll know what I mean. The benefit of standard notation is its specificity, > but I'd much rather have the ease of reading tab on something like the lute or > guitar, especially if sight reading a solo piece. Standard notation is great > for noting ties and dynamics etc, but you can write this into your tab part. > Just my two cents. > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Howard and Vance, > > > > I was very interested to read your comments regarding the relative virtues of > > > > staff notation and tablature. Being a beginner, I find tablature means I have > > > > little or no idea which notes I am playing, whether I am supposed to play a > > fifth, an octave or indeed what interval is intended. Even the key is often a > > > > mystery (I do not have absolute pitch) What looks like a 'third' in staff > > notation can turn out to be anything between a second and a seventh. The > > letter 'd' > > in the first chord or two of Greensleeves, I discovered, represents about > > three entirely different notes. Of course my musical origins are in staff > > notation, and I am so used to hearing what I read before I even try to play > > it, that > > I find it very difficult to adapt to the new notation. I have managed, am > > beginning to recognise what is an octave, a scale, and the like, but find > > sight-reading very difficult. In staff notation one knows from the context > > what comes > > (or could come) next. To find a b-flat in a-major (to take the first example > > that occurs to me) would be highly significant, and not at all what one would > > > > expect. In tablature none of this seems possible, i.e. I have to read letter > > for letter (I imagine like some poor beginner in music, struggling to read > > any > > form of notation), rather than in what I would consider a 'total way'. Why, > > then, would it be so wrong to use normal staff notation? One would then be in > > the > > same position as the guitarist (and lute and guitar are not exactly light > > years apart), able to read and above all hear what was going on at a glance. > > To > > this beginner at least, that seems a definite advantage. Cheers > > > > Tom Beck > > > > -- Thomas Schall Niederhofheimer Weg 3 D-65843 Sulzbach 06196/74519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss --
