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Guitar musical notation
In music notation, I get confused whether one is supposed to slide between frets or hammer on; if there’s an arrow between 2 notes, are you supposed to pluck or strum. If there are ‘x’s alongside a chord, does it always mean to mute the chord or strings? Is there a location where guitar musical notation for guitar playing is documented or can someone enlighten me. If I could find Tony’s explanation for every exercise I’ve printed off, I might be able to find out, but otherwise, it’s a guess at best.
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Hi Zephyrpn,
I’m not sure if there’s an explanation somewhere, but here’s how I read them:
x = mute
arrows only=hammer ons/pull offs
arrows and / = slides
arrows that go up the page are bends.
https://tonypolecastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Bugs-Bunny.pdf
the bugs bunny one from this week shows all of them except the mutes.
hope this helps.
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You can Google guitar music notation and get many sites that explain it. Here is one that I’ve used in the past..
http://resources.dsmusic.com/guitar/How+to+Read+Sheet+Music+(Notation)+for+Guitar+.pdf
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Thanks Loraine and Whilbs – I’m glad the TAC community works whereas the website is a small shell of what it used to be. Loraine > this responding to questions is really keeping you busy – thanks for your support.
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Hi Whilbs
That does help – I notice on bugs bunny, the arrow going up has 1/4 at the top – does that mean bend for 1/4 beat or something like that.
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Still confused. If I do the google search, there are no hits on words like ‘strum’ vs ‘pluck’, no hits that I’ve found for ‘hammer’ or ‘slide’ or ‘bend’. I’m sure I’m missing something but I haven’t located the answers yet. I’ve got many years of piano playing behind me so reading music is not the problem – only the guitar-specific notation.
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You might try googling “understanding tabulature” and “understanding chord diagrams.”
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