Ricardo -> RE: Why do we have sharp and flat notes? (Mar. 8 2008 3:51:24)
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Guitarbudda, the plain fact is, no matter that you are correct that reading standard notation is superior, it is not now, was not in the past, and won't be in the future, PRACTICAL. Too many genres that use the instrument, the guitar, have virtuosos that don't read notes, nor tab. If there were a huge amount of such figuras that both read, and were strong advocates for reading, then you would find more kids think reading was "cool" or something. The hard fact is if you like rock, no Hendrix and Van Halen were not readers. Weird guys like Vai, but that is not strong enough and still you don't see Vai on stage with his music stand. Jazz, well couple guys are masters of reading,, but Wes, Christian, Django? Django could not even read or write his own name. Flamenco, we know by now the only guy who wrote notes was Riqueni, and he went crazy writing stacks of music until they put him into an institution. Note reading is almost "taboo". Like if you even try to learn with notes, you will get messed up. The list goes on, so without some guitar "hero" readers, there does not seem to ever be an inspiration for reading. Is it a shame? Yeah, because there is nothing wrong with it, and it could bennefit for students. Foreignors learning flamenco, without access to the traditional way, would benefit greatly. It is true, score's have the POTENTIAL to indicate some much detail. Saddly, there are no such complete scores I have seen for flamenco. Anyone that can truely learn from a bad score with wrong meter fingerings, expressions, etc, meaning the VAST majority of flamenco transcriptions, could learn just as well WITHOUT any such score. Only in very rare cases will a potentially good student get so terribly thrown by a bad score as to be hurt by it. The best score in the world might not help a student at all, if he can already play but doesn't read well. It would be great for me, but guess what, I don't really need it either. I would buy it of course. The only point some folks make here, that I know is upsetting for a teacher that has hords of heavy metal kids with pages of bad downloaded computer tabs and no ear, is that it is not necessary AT ALL, and particularily for flamenco. You can never convince someone that it is usefull just by saying so because YOU see the benefit. Too many examples of why it is NOT helpful at all, too many stronger figuras, guitar heros saying "I never needed it...". Perhaps one day guitar players will have the patience to make good scores as you describe. At present, I don't see any for flamenco on the market. What is available is fine for what it is, the rest I can fill in myself. I personally like best a good standard notation with fingerings and rhythm, attached to TAb underneath. Or just notation, and in the back the whole thing in Tab with rhythms. I dont' mind flippng pages. I would never perform with a music stand anyway, except for a chord chart. But I love READING scores along to a recording...something you can't really do with tab. So with me it would be "preaching to the choir" about standard notation. But as a teacher I prefer to not use notes at all, rather then explain detail in a bad score to a student. But different students can learn different ways, and even a bad tab can be a helpful tool. Ricardo
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