Music twitter: are there any instruments besides guitar and bass where it's normal for even very advanced players not to be able to read sheet music?
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Replying to @Pinboard
fretted instruments have tablature notation which is more or less equivalent, so idk if that counts (tho organ and a bunch of other instruments have their own versions) given the effect of keys idk if there's really true "music notation" to speak of
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Replying to @parkan
Tabs are not at all equivalent, though. It's a much less rich notational system.
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Replying to @Pinboard
I mean, it literally represents the same information in a given tuning? standard notation is also relative to a scale so it's not like it's "pure" tabla can also represent microtonal tunings, which in standard, good luck tabs were also widely used in the west until 1750+
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Replying to @parkan
What I mean is it doesn't show note value, key signature, or dynamics (at least guitar tabs don't)
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Replying to @Pinboard
I guess I see it this way: modern guitar tabs don't but historical/non-western tabla def have dynamics (noted above) key value is a bit of an extrinsic concept to the notation, and note value is relative idk overall standard notation seems like a very proscriptive notion of good
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I'm not like a super decolonization person but equating "reading music" to a particular set of chromatic-adjacent scales specific to late post baroque Europe seems limiting, vs tablature that can capture a huge range of harmonic relations
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Like I said to someone else, my question isn't so much about the merits of standard notation as it is about the culture of learning various instruments
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