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Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 03:14:35 -0500
From: Glenn Weiser
Subject: Re: tab/notation

> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 12:54:35 -0800 (PST)
> From: Mike Will
> Subject: [none]
>
> Glenn Weiser writes:
>
> "There's no way you can accurately transcribe riffs
> or solos off a record without rhythm stems at the
> minimum for instance."
>
> I think there may be a way, though it may not be
> superior. I think some sort of development of the
> "rhythm line" idea could portray all the necessary
> rhythmic information.
>
> One basis for this belief is that Band-In-A-Box has an
> option to show/edit rhythm based on standard notation
> or based on a "piano roll" style notation. They are
> equivalent--one directly converts to the other. There
> can be some information lost when going from
> piano-roll notation to standard notation, as
> piano-roll style allows any starting point and
> duration (e.g. reflecting the nuances of style or
> interpretation) which S/N cannot reasonably
> replicate(it would be so difficult to read).
>
> I don't see why in principle a rhythm-line couldn't be
> developed that would duplicate the style of the "piano
> roll" notation.
>
Mike-

Now that you mention it, I remember Kent Copper tried to do something like
that
in his Sonny Terry book. But why reinvent the wheel? Standard notation works
fine. If you don't want to read the pitches
you just read the stems and use the hole numbers. In Fiddle Tunes for
Harmonica I teach the player how to read rhytms only,
and tell him use the stems/hole numbers.

One interesting aspect of this thread is trying to find the balance between
tab and notation-
G Maj was strongly opposed to tab, you're questioning notation, and I'm
advocating both.
Now here's something else-publishers require tab, but music store retailers,
according to one of my publishers, strongly prefer that they have notation
as well,
and are less likely to order books with tab only. That brings us back to
notation and tab as the
way to go.

- -Glenn Weiser