El Kiko -> RE: Tabs versus standard notation (Sep. 30 2011 21:35:31)
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It's what you are use to and how it suits yourself , TAB is exclusively for the guitar and does not translate to other instruments unlike music notation , For myself music notation is far better than TAB as I am used to it , and that’s the main point. If I get a piece of music I can pretty much play it straight away, but TAB is just annoying for me , I already have a system that works fine , why would I want another ? TAB is an annoyance for me as some tunes have just TAB , argh , where’s my music !!, I don’t need to sit and decipher an inferior system , of course sometimes both are available Of course as I say this is me, other people do not want to learn music notation and just use the guitar, well that's fine. I used to read music from violin, trumpet, flute, saxophone, anything really just to practice, it would also give you an insight into how other instruments worked and how people thought. Even in TAB you would still have to learn the rhythm notation indicated by the stems so you really almost are learning how to read music. quote:
Advantages of tab • It’s much quicker and easier to write by hand. You can get six-line manuscript paper from the Lute Society. I disagree, again it depends what you are used to, I can jot down a lot of stuff with a pencil and paper quite quickly on manuscript paper you can get from almost anywhere. quote:
It takes up less space because you don’t have to leave room for all those ledger lines. If you had a long passages of ledger lines it is not uncommon to write the octave up or down sign (8va) and stay on the stave to avoid this. quote:
A piece in TAB typically takes not much more than half the number of pages of the same piece in staff Not really true as a TAB would still have bar lines and therefore both styles would have the same number of bars in the same tune, I don’t see why that should be different , in notation you would use repeats with first and second time endings which would shorten the tune , I don’t actually know if that exists in TAB , I assume it does. quote:
• It’s independent of tuning. Notation if way more independent of tuning than TAB , its even independent of instrument , and you can have more then one staff and many different clefs , I have stuff written for guitar in different tunings , the tuning is marked at the beginning and ( as with TAB ) away you go So , as I said that’s just me ,and as I said we already have a good system which has developed with time , why invent another ....
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