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Post by Marc on Dec 28, 2020 10:00:11 GMT -6
Those of you who can read music notation, how did you do it? I kind understand the rhythms but not so much those pesky black dots. I was considering flash cards but before I went down that route I wanted to get y'all advice.
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Post by Phil on Dec 28, 2020 13:02:14 GMT -6
Those of you who can read music notation, how did you do it? I kind understand the rhythms but not so much those pesky black dots. I was considering flash cards but before I went down that route I wanted to get y'all advice.
First memorize the lines and spaces: Lines (low to high) - E G B D F mnemonic - Every Good Boy Does Fine Spaces: F A C E Then learn the lines and spaces above and below the staff. It goes in alphabetical order so you'll be able to figure it out. Here's a free game to help you learn to recognize the notes. www.readmusicfree.com/notablyquickguitar.htmlNow for the hard part. Finding those notes on the fret board. If you know the notes on the 2 E strings you know 1/3 of the fret board. You'll have to use whatever tricks you can to calculate the notes likes using octaves. Use something like the Real Book or Mickey Baker book that doesn't have tab. Take a piece of music measure by measure and figure it out. Anyway, that's what I'm doing and its working. I still can't really "read" music but I can decipher it.
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Post by grampalerxst on Dec 28, 2020 14:58:34 GMT -6
I started with piano lessons as a kid, so I had some familiarity with standard notation when I encountered it on guitar. For me interpreting rhythm is much harder than interpreting pitch.
Google will probably give you lots of options for tutorials on standard notation tailored for guitar. From there it's just a matter of repetition. If you are super serious it might take getting an older guitar book written in standard notation and working through a bunch of stuff.
Another option is to just use a piece of paper to cover up the tab out of a tab book then decipher the standard notation. The drawback is that the standard notation accompanying tab leaves out clues standalone standard notation has for position and fingering options, so you won't get exposure to those things.
It's a bit quirky so patience is called for.
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Post by cunningr on Jan 4, 2021 11:38:07 GMT -6
I started playing trumpet in 6th grade, by 8th grade was in High School Marching Band and Winter Concert. Did this through 10th grade when I decided it wast cool. So it just kinda stuck. Playing guitar I prefer tab even though i can read music.
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