Re:Kids and music lessons: why do many promising players qui...
by balfirevic on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:19AM
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> I can sight read tab to a pretty high level
I don't think you can sight-read tabs, AFAIK sight-reading means being able to play something without seeing or hearing it before, and tabs don't have rhythm information.
> Honestly at this point I wish I'd started with standard notation, or at least learnt both at the same time.
Well, it would have required the same (or more effort) then, couple of months should hardly make a difference. Good luck!
But I am now teaching myself standard notation because I am running up against the limit of tab. I keep having to go back and forth between someone actually playing the piece and the tab so I can get the rhythm, and sometimes I'll find I internalise a rhythm incorrectly and then one day when I'm listening to the piece played by a pro it clicks and I realise I've been playing it wrong this whole time.
There are sites like https://www.classtab.org/ which try to add this rhythmic information to tab, but I don't think it works all that well.
Honestly at this point I wish I'd started with standard notation, or at least learnt both at the same time.