Players who do not use standard notation can have this attitude. It required more paper for each tune and the notation was not used. I can mentally identify a note in notation more easily than I can the tab for up-the-neck licks - I have to stop and think for minute.īefore I started working on improving my up-the-neck keyboard knowledge, I considered notation and tab for the banjo as a "pain in the neck". In my case, having both tab and notation can be useful in improving my familiarity with the fingerboard. I am comfortable using standard notation. It just seems so easy and logical why hasn't it become the norm? It just seems like common sense to me as a retired public school music director. It would allow one to ween away from the tab version and improvise around those melody notes much sooner for a student.
actually knowing right away how an unfamiliar tune sounds bring it much closer to the experience and expediency of reading standard notation. It would completely eliminate the chief problem people have with tablature and one of the chief objections people have for using tab over ear learning. I've seen Jack Hatfield doing this in his book but why, by now, hasn't this become the standard practice? People do not listen or even care to listen to the essence of the music they think they love-they just love the pure sound and BLAST of the banjo itself.This is just my learned experience, yours will probably vary.My best.Jack Baker Reading notation is not the answer as this music is not borne out of academic study or written notation-Tablature does seem to help. Your experience seems to be quite different. I have been teaching Theory and Improvisation at NYU in NYC for many years and Students are always given assignments to listen to the music before we start analyzing it. The 5th string drone is one of the big problems and the surrounding notes of rolls, is another one. Well, as I said, I tried what you have suggested and they still can't hear the melody. I've had several hundred students over the years ask me how to listen to the melody or even find it at all. Banjo playing is very organic and must be learned by watching or listening to it a thousand times or more. I tried highlighting notes in my tabs many years ago for a very long time.ĭoesn't work as people don't bother or know how to listen to melody and even with highlighted notes, they still can't find the melody. Your suggestion sounds like a solution for people who can't hear the melody in bluegrass banjo playing.
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