Guitar Chords
Guitar Chords
- Chords are two or more strings played at the same time to create a letter chord.
- We have a few basic chords that we will use during the guitar unit.
- G, C, and Em are three basic chords that we need to create any kind of song.
A-Chord
A Minor Chord
C- Chord
d-chord
d Minor chord
e-chord
e-minor chord
g chord
open chords
first chords we will learn
another way to read notes:
Tabulature
Tabulature
- Tabulature is a form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering rather than musical pitches.
- It is common for fretted stringed instruments
- Common during the renaissance and Baroque eras
- Commonly used in noting:
- Rock
- Pop
- Folk
- Ragtime
- Bluegrass; and
- Blues Music
Advantages of Tabulature
- Tabulature is more easily read by a novice musician but it has some significant deficiencies compared to standard notation.
- Advantages:
- Direct Visual Representation
- Fretboard Tabs is a closer visual representation of the instrument's fretboard compared to standard notation. It does not require as much training for players to be able to read tabs; therefore it is often easier and quicker to interpret.
- Fingering Position Determination
- Fretboard Tabs removes the requirement for the player to determine fretboard position within which notated music is to be executed.
Advantages of Tabulature Continued...
- Simple Typewriter Font Representation
- Tabs can be easily represented as ASCII tab.
- Plain-text computer file using numbers, letters, and symbols to construct tabulature.
- This characteristic makes it easy to distribute tabs electronically, a practice that has become very widespread.
disadvantages of tabulature
- Indication of Pitch
- Fretboard tabs show how the notes are fingered but not the pitch itself.
- Serious limitation because obtaining the actual pitch requires calculation by considering tuning.
- Instrument-Specific
- Tabs are instrument specific; Notation is generic
- Tabs can only be read easily by a player of one particular instrument but not others.
- Staff notation is universal
- Compromises communication between players of other instruments.
disadvantages of tabulature continued...
- Rhythmic Information
- Tab notation provides limited information on rhythm and timing.
- writers sometimes provide limited rhythmic information by adding note stems, flags, and beams above the fret glyphs but the system is not as well-defined as in standard notation
- Distinction Between Musical Parts
- Multiple parts cannot be rhythmically distinguished within fretboard tabulature notation.
- Harder to convey information for proper renditions