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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:What's tab?

Tablature, for guitars basically a number over the string noting what fret to play.

I played piano, trumpet and clarinet when I was younger and was able to read notes, then in highschool moved on to guitar and mainly used tabs for convenience, I found it a bit messy without tabs.

I can read bass clef. Treble clef takes a little mental pre-processing. Alto clef fucks me up something fierce.

Time was, I was a trombonist who could read bass clef.

Not anymore.

Violin player I was long ago. Treble clef I can still read.

Treble clef for life, yo.

I could read whatever was normal for your bog standard Clarinet (E-flat?) back in middle school (6th-8th grade). Which basically went from something like G up to, uh, whatever was pretty high. F?

Yeah, I can't remember offhand. Though I am confident I could play "Hot Cross Buns" if I had to.

I can read treble and alto fluidly, bass slowly, and tenor even more slowly (which may or may not make sense, because alto and tenor are damn near the same thing).

treble clef suckas' unite!

although it's more fun just to make shit up and jam. When you live with guitarists for years you end up forgetting how to read music well. That's because you are forced to memorize minor blues scales because all everyone ever wants to play is in a 12 or 24 bar blues format.

Eight years of saxophone. I started on Alto sax, and I'm now playing tenor. I'm also joining the marching band pit.

Used to read abit, when I played the Piano.

Now i'm a Music retard.

I can sort of read it. Treble and bass, at least. What is this alto and tenor thing you speak of? Is that those that looks like a big "B" (as opposed to the weirded out "G" that is the treble and backwards "C" for bass)?

Anyway, I can read notes, as in that I can figure out what a song will sound like when played. The only instrument I can play is the piano and keyboard (big difference), and maybe guitar, but I'm not very good at any of them. Self-taught. However, I do like to write notes and have the computer play it for me (it's much better at it than me, you see), and that's where I learned what the different notes sounds like.

I play classical guitar, so I can read treble clef pretty well, but I do not internalise them as their names (C, B-flat etc), but by their position on the guitar fingerboard. So if you point out a note on the score, I probably would hesitate a bit to tell you the note (especially if it has lots of leger lines), but I would have no probs playing the note on a guitar.

Ok, *scans everyone with teacher glare*, which one of you jokers picked the spoons option?

Treble action, I used to play flute. I can't read bass for the life of me though.

Somewhat off-topic, but despite being able to read treble cleff just fine I find tabs to be infinitely more intuitive for guitar work. And like kheegan posted, I tend to refer by the frets rather than the notes.

Ok, *scans everyone with teacher glare*, which one of you jokers picked the spoons option?

*Hides behind music stand and violin to absorb glare* Wasn't me. I swear.

Oddly enough my old music teacher had glare so powerful, you can feel it piercing your soul without making first eye contact.

i used to be able to play the saxaphone, but i've largely forgotten how to read music.

Darth_Zod wrote:i used to be able to play the saxaphone, but i've largely forgotten how to read music.

You've also forgotten how to spell the name of the instrument--it's saxophone.

Zaia wrote:

Darth_Zod wrote:i used to be able to play the saxaphone, but i've largely forgotten how to read music.

You've also forgotten how to spell the name of the instrument--it's saxophone.

bah. a, o, same difference really.

Yep yep! Go me! I'm good for something now!

Does percussion count? I remember the notes and what not, it's just the which number means what at the beginning of a piece that eludes me right now. I despise anything where quarter notes become eights and they play at speed. DESPISE!

Tasoth wrote:Does percussion count? I remember the notes and what not, it's just the which number means what at the beginning of a piece that eludes me right now. I despise anything where quarter notes become eights and they play at speed. DESPISE!

I explained time signatures earlier in this thread.

Played sax, trumpet. Not recently though...

I can play the Trombone and the Tuba fairly well, but I cant associate notes with positions or fingerings for crap. I either have to write them in or guess (I've gotten pretty good at it.)

Not anymore, I'm afraid. Although whether or not I could in the first place is debatable. Ah, woe is the former flutist.

I can read well enough in Treble, just don't give me anything too allegro.