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From: camilleg@microsoft.UUCP (Camille GOUDESEUNE)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.makers
Subject: Re: TABLATURE publishing
Message-ID: <10251@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 90 05:15:17 GMT
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In article <5244@blake.acs.washington.edu> ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes:
>In article <19281@cfctech.UUCP> joel@cfctech.UUCP (Joel Lessenberry) writes:
>>
>>	TAB than standard notation, and good TAB shows things standard
>>	notation doesn't.
>>
>	-for instance?
>

I'm no guitarist, nor can I read tablature.  But I do know that the same
pitch has different timbres on different strings;  TAB shows where the
strings are stopped, which is more precise than merely what notes to play.
Unless, of course,  you put some kind of fingering on the standard notation,
which is what violin scores have.  Having strings tuned a fifth apart
instead of only fourths and thirds makes it a tad more obvious which
string to stop with a given finger to get a given pitch:  one position
will be (mildly) comfortable, the others ridiculous.
TAB probably has other glerps specific to guitars, but I'll leave their
explanation to someone else instead of trying to deduce their existence
from "I think, therefore I am", rice pudding, and income tax.

	Camille Goudeseune.