Feb 4 2007, 01:00 PM
QUOTE(chester43 @ Feb 3 2007, 11:27 PM)
my teacher tell me electric guitar only read tab ..
Your teacher has a point there.
I'd say most of ELECTRIC guitarists (especially rock/metal) read tab and few read standard musical notation. Those who know how to read standard musical notation, a lot of them do not find it necessary day in day out in their guitar playing profession.
I read in another forum that even George Lynch do not read std notation (note: Im NOT SAYING that he CANNOT read std notation, I said George Lynch DO NOT read std notation).
BUT for jazz and classical, I think it is a big plus (necessary?) to know.
So I have to agree with your teacher to an extent.
I quote from Hawk band (http://www.metalmayhemmusic.com/hawk/index.htm) guitarist when asked whether he knows sight reading (ie read std notation)
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Qn: How do you know that Doug even knows how to sight read?
Doug's reply: I have been able to sight read standard musical notation in the past but haven't found it necessary to sight read in years, other than tab. When I learned to play guitar there was absolutely no accurate tab or music notation so there wasn't much of a point to sight read. Even today, most of the tab I check out has sections that are incorrect. So, I do it the old fashioned way - listen to the recording and play along with the original.The type of tab that we use with the current version of the lessons note to note timing values. So, the tab has all the information found in standard notation but is better suited to guitar than standard notation - in my opinion.
This post has been edited by Banzai_san: Feb 4 2007, 01:05 PM
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