Good Gourd, am eye in travail! Help!
I’ve been accomplishing making a living placing my heart and very soul into this instrument! And some key boards, flutes, harps, bells/chimes.
Am I to understand that my audiences are fooled? I know nothing of all this…
and yet have managed to gather a following, enough to earn a living all these years. What explanation is there for this?
I am lost in this thread, because every trick in the books, new or old can not replace presence of performer, no matter how un-informed of the newest way to pronounce a guitar chord.
I hate it when drummers play the hi-hat cymbal or ride cymbal with the same strength as they do the snare. It’s an aural mess. Play the cymbals at half-volume; this will make for a more equal sound as cymbals are significantly louder.
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I’m of the opinion that tablature is crap anyway. It merely gets you through the piece at hand, and nothing more. I’m not saying that reading music is Absolutely Essential (I don’t read well currently), but if you know what you’re doing in the first place, as you should, you won’t need the often-inaccurate transcribings to lean on.
And, yes, a guitarist that doesn’t know the facts in the OP shouldn’t play in public (I say this loosely).
Sigh, Classical guitarist with around 15 years experience chiming in here. Hmm, read the OP, sounds like you originally were on to something; however, if you are interested in tone, the notes on the different strings all have different tones. They have the same enharmonic value but all have varying degrees of warmth, even on the distorted electric guitar though to a lesser degree as amps and effects even out the tone marginally.
I know you are speaking of an electric guitar specifically because acoustic and classical guitars typically never have 24 frets. You can overcome the lack of frets by playing on the 5th fret natural harmonic, or 12th fret fretted octave harmonic.
The complaints about the issue are pretty stupid. Playing on the 8th fret or 3rd fret is irrelevant if it forces you to make awkward jumps that don’t make sense with the line of the music. Generally playing the same notes in a position that is easier to accomadate is much better unless you are out for a specific tone or your instrument has some dead space along the given frets.
