![]() Its primary purpose historically has been to clarify, not to simplify. I think a lot of people favour notation for its "seriousness" but keep in mind that tab has been around for centuries, and has always existed for reasons of practicality, to be used by talented players. I've written arrangements which alternate between campanella and more ordinary fingering, and there's no good way of indicating what you want in the score without demanding quite a lot of work on the player's part, or having lots of string indications over notes. And in terms of going for a particular sound, using a campanella style is quite an intricate thing to accomplish, and giving the player freedom to choose fingerings could really damage the effect you're going for. Having two strings two semitones apart creates too many possibilities. I can tell you from a composer's point of view, tab is really the only logical option. It's not a method book per se, but like most collections of studies, is designed to cover a range of relatively isolated playing techniques. I've written a book of original ukulele etudes, many of which are in a classical vein, and all of which have lots of fingerpicking. I prefer books like John Kings which have both tab and notation, and eventually as I get more used to expanding from CG to uke, I plan to rely less on tabs and look at the standard notation more. MY teacher really made my Mya-Moe sound like a Lute which is one of the things I want to achive with Uke. So my point is that as long as you can understand how to play what you read regardless of notation being used, and focus on making a nice clear\clean\dynamic sound you should have little problem playing some beautiful classical pieces. You can adjust the key of the song by going to 'score' then 'instrument'. I had asked Jamie Holding about the lack of standard notation in his ebooks and that I felt like I was cheating using tab, and Jamie reminded me that Lute music was not originally in music notation but had a tab system not unlike the Uke tabs. position of a text, fingering, chord diagram or musical symbol marker can be. IT's funny We just had my classical guitar teacher and his girlfriend over for dinner and I showed him the 5 classical books that I have, Sanz, fingerstyle, john kings, 20 progressive etudes and lute to uke.Īnd he took a crack at it and using mainly tab since he is not used to the uke GCEA strings, he played some nice renaissance pieces quite well. ![]()
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