why acoustic guitar players cant read scores?

[Paikon]

there is 400 years written music out there and all i hear is about tabs

[HHP]

Evolution?

[Paikon]

Originally Posted by HHP

Evolution?

naaahhhhhhhhhh...try again

[pgilmor]

Tab has been around longer and is more germaine to the guitar.

[ahorsewithnonam]

I don't want to read music. I just like to play songs. I've seen too many people who can only read music...like my wife, but can't play a song without her crutch. It boggles my mind. She took piano lessons for years. We go to someone's house, they have a piano. Someone says, " do you play?". Oh...I need my music. Funny it's a lot of people. She can't even play a simple Christmas Caroll without sheet music!

Interestingly, you never see guitar players in a band with a music stand in front of them, stopping in the middle of a song, to turn the page!

I can listen to a song and within minutes, be playing right along with them.

[HHP]

Might as well ask "why notation?" since music was around for 4,000 years before that and everyone learned by ear.

[Doug Young]

Originally Posted by Paikon

there is 400 years written music out there and all i hear is about tabs

Acoustic guitarists often just use the word "tab" to mean "written music". Might be tablature alone, might be standard notation, and the standard convention for a lot of guitar is tab+notation, so you get both. So I wouldn't assume when someone says "tabs" that they literally mean they can't read or don't want standard notation, at least in addition to tablature.

[JohnW63]

Because most guitar players learned chords first, then strumming with the song, THEN got into more deep topics. The first two don't require reading music. TABS are the bridge between reading music notation and just learning the chords.

[Paikon]

Originally Posted by HHP

Might as well ask "why notation?" since music was around for 4,000 years before that and everyone learned by ear.

yes you are right. english is not my mother language

[AllThumbsBruce]

Originally Posted by HHP

Might as well ask "why notation?" since music was around for 4,000 years before that and everyone learned by ear.

Even longer - I recall an article about 30,000 year old bird-bone flutes.

[Paikon]

my point is
if i say lets all learn a movement from a lute suite of J.S.Bach
what will you say?
we dont play this cos its not in tabs?

[Paikon]

Originally Posted by Doug Young

Acoustic guitarists often just use the word "tab" to mean "written music". Might be tablature alone, might be standard notation, and the standard convention for a lot of guitar is tab+notation, so you get both. So I wouldn't assume when someone says "tabs" that they literally mean they can't read or don't want standard notation, at least in addition to tablature.

i dont think i m wrong
most people here cant read standard notation and standard notation is the most accurate system of writing music

[$ongWriter]

Originally Posted by Paikon

my point is
if i say lets all learn a movement from a lute suite of J.S.Bach
what will you say?
we dont play this cos its not in tabs?

I'd just say I'm not gonna play that....I know as far as Nashville goes most guitar plays here I don't think can read music..Now, play them a song and they can write a "chart" in 5 min and play it perfect the first time...

[handers]

One of the other reasons is that it is truly a bit more complicated than reading for other instruments in which a given note is only found in one place (on the keyboard or saxophone). When you add multiple notes simultaneously, the permutations of the possibilities for fretting makes reading music more difficult for guitar.

That said, it is all about practice and recognizing patterns. I have seen few published approaches to demystifying the approach to fretting 6 strings but I am sure that good readers for the guitar could do this. I'm, sadly, not one. I struggle to read though wish I were better.

Many of the players on this forum play music which is not usefully represented by notation. No reason for them to learn to read music. But fingerstyle and classical styles are well suited to being taught using notation.

hans

[ljguitar]

Originally Posted by Paikon

there is 400 years written music out there and all i hear is about tabs

No scores for the things I'm playing…nor TAB.