> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:54:01 -1000 > From: david <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Rosegarden-user] Guitar notation vs. sound > To: rosegarden-user <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> My lead guitarist's response to the whole thing of scores was that > tablature is the only real guitar score, since it specifies string and > fret. But his non-tab music reading skills are pretty limited (no > classical training and he doesn't finger pick at all). > > So his reading would have been that the score doesn't give him the exact > note. ;-) Technically he's 100% correct as far as I can tell i.e. a given note may well be precisely defined in terms of hertz but there's more to it than that. Not only does timber or tone vary much more widely but in the case of guitars the fingering may also be more or less doable at a given fret. That said, I'm sticking to the the conventional staff with tabs utilised just for memorizing. An advanced guitarist probably knows blindfolded all the multiple frets where he can play any note off the staff and makes the choice instinctively. Mid level players can probably live with just a 3 digit number under the score (1st digit being the string number), and the rest of us will just have to struggle on :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
