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Originally Posted by Scrybe  And look on the bright side kid...sure the guitar may be complicted with multiple fingerings for any specific little phrase, but I bet you didn't fully appreciate just how complicated it was before you tried your hand at sight Reading. Stop looking at every "setback" ir 'stumbling block' as a problem, difficulty, or weakness, and instead appreciate how all these little puzzles are actually making you way more acquainted and at one with your instrument than you were before. A change of attitude is sometimes the biggest improvement we can make to our musicianship, and I say that from experience. |
I see a lot of complaining about how all the positions available for playing something on the guitar is a disadvantage compared to horns and the like. It's NOT! It's actually a benefit, and makes the guitar easier than many other instruments. If you're playing something, and the fingering is clumsy, you can move it to 2 or 3 other locations, where chances are, the fingering will be easier. (eg. Round Midnight - or any tune for that matter).
You can't do that on a sax or clarinet. (I know because I've played sax for over thirty years, and clarinet since I was a boy.) If a particular fingering is difficult on a clarinet, too bad. You simply have to learn it. Same for sax, although (off topic) sax is hands-down easier than clarinet.
That's the side of the guitar vs. other instruments that nobody ever mentions. I personally love it for that feature. It allows me to find the easiest "version". In my mind, that's a great ADvantage.
Tommy/
03-15-2010, 10:58 PM
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