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Thu 1 May, 2025 04:36 am
If you play classical or fingerstyle guitar, do you prefer tablature or music notation?
@usn0814,
I think you'd need music notation for many passages in the classical repertoire. Ideally you'd be trained on both.
@hightor,
What do you mean trained for both? I have been playing classical guitar since 1974.
@usn0814,
Well, which do
you prefer? One of my guitar playing friends, semi-pro, never uses tablature and now that he is trying to learn classical guitar he's trying very hard to improve his ability to read notation. There's a written bass line which he has to play and all sorts of eighth and sixteenth note figures – how could you play the piece if you couldn't read notation?