Funny, I can only read music on guitar using a tab, and before this I always assumed it was a cheat (which in retrospect is kind of foolish of me, since any notation is a "cheat" for actually playing an instrument). Anyway, I feel validated as a guitar player!
Yeah, I think there is a lot of weird elitism in basically all hobbies. Which was why I was excited about this video.
Like while I see some value in standard notation at the end of the day all that really matters is if are you playing what you want to play the way you want to play it all the rest of the stuff is sort of just incidental you know?
For the music I made with my band, we never so much as wrote a tablature, which resulted in a few awkward conversations with actual musicians asking me if I often play in such-and-such a pentatonic scale like idk boss do you like it or not lol
The History of GUITAR Tab!
ObiwanHelloThere_wav wrote
Funny, I can only read music on guitar using a tab, and before this I always assumed it was a cheat (which in retrospect is kind of foolish of me, since any notation is a "cheat" for actually playing an instrument). Anyway, I feel validated as a guitar player!