Well, I think it depends on speed (I don't like slow Johnson
trebles) and of course the font/layout of the tablature.
However, a scale or most motions on one course has more visual
clarity (up-down movement) in notation than in tablature. I
guess it's a similar problem like that of reading
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
Yes Tom.
But why do guitarists have to read from a single staff (transposed an
octave)? I find that it really obscures the voice leading?
Miles Dempster
On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 06:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Dear Howard and Vance,
I was very interested to read your comments
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
I have found adjusting to tablature very simple and if anything it helps my sight
reading. I am
actually to the point where I can figure out the tune of a simple piece just by
looking at it. There
is one disadvantage which I am not sure if I should blame on the notation system
however.
I find
Hi Tom!
I started the same way - not knowing which note I'm actually playing but
in the meantime I see the tones behind tabulature letters and it
doesn't make too much difference if I'm playing staff notation or
tabulature.
A while ago we had the topic of scales on the lute and here is one
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
, December 09, 2003 8:54 AM
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Subject: Re: Staff Notation/Tablature
Well, tab is easy to sight read mechanically, since it tells you exactly
what to do (except for how long to hold each note), but as Tom says, it's
far inferior to staff notation as a musical description
, on the other hand, smile,
knowing that reading tablature is an absolute doddle.
Best wishes,
Stewart McCoy.
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Subject: Staff Notation/Tablature
Dear Howard and Vance,
I was very
At 04:25 AM 12/9/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
At 06:02 PM 12/9/2003 +, Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even Campion could
hardly have written all his guitar music using seven different scordature in
staff notation.
We do not know that. If the music was written in tablature, it could very
well have been written in pitch notation as
Chapeau!
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Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: Staff Notation/Tablature
Dear Tom,
The purpose of notation is to enable the performer to reproduce
music. To that extent
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Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: Staff Notation/Tablature
As usual Stewart has said it all and said it succinctly. I would
only add a
couple of comments.
When
Dear Stewart,
thanks for your detailed posting. However I'd like to add that
playing fast single line divisions by for example John Johnson
bears (at least for me) a specific kind of difficulty: beyond
a certain speed it is quite hard to get an impression of the
melody movement in the
Me again, this makes more sense:
(snip) So I think this rhythmically quite simple single line music is not necessarily
written best in tab, just like your example of 15th century music with
complex rhythm. But then - the time needed to rewrite it in
staff notation is better spent on
Hi Stephan!
I wonder! In baroque lute music this may often happen but in renaissance
music?
Usually the melodic movement is (at least for me) rather good supported
by the tabulature ...
Thomas
Am Die, 2003-12-09 um 22.38 schrieb Stephan Olbertz:
Dear Stewart,
thanks for your detailed
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