Ear training and being able to identify scale intervals, chord voicings by sound is honestly a more useful skill for most guitar players than reading sheet music
Very very wrong, tabs are different from sheet musics, tabs contains six lines for the guitar one, while sheet music contains 5, tabs uses numbers, sheet music uses music theory. To understand guitar tabs, you should be familiar on the finger board of guitar while to understand sheet music, you should understand MUSIC THEORY, the symbols like symbol of pizzicato, trills, glissando, allegro, BPM(s), notes/keys etc..
@@Christian_Gaba lot of tabs use similar symbols, id argue both forms require some amount of music theory. A lot of tabs are also written to be spaced out in the correct rhythm, it’s a more intuitive note system.
@@Jabezrtpppiano makes it very easy, you both have the knowledge of music theory and because of the piano keyboard, you can visualize and learn the fretboard easily The B string is literally C #C D #D E F #F G #G A #A B
I've always wanted to be a musician, not just a guitar player. I also always wanted to know every note on the fretboard from the beginning. I had to know. Some people are wired that way and some are just happy learning some songs and playing wherever their ear takes them. The hard part about this is when you find yourself in a group of other musicians and you want to collaborate or share ideas. It's much easier to share musical ideas when everyone speaks the same musical language. There is no right or wrong. It's all your personal journey and what you want to get out of it. Enjoy music!!
i had never tried to read sheet music for guitar- but a month or so ago my friend and i got invited to record for an opera- and they gave me sheet music. luckily i grew up playing clarinet so i knew how to read but i ended up just learning the music note by note it seriously made me regret never even practicing reading the basics for guitar. since then ive gotten a real book and the chord names help soooo much but having the melody to read has become doable for me!!! super fun highly suggest guitarists learn
I can read sheet music and everything there like words on a page thanks to being in orchestra for years, but for me the issue is that I never memorized the note names on the fretboard, so I have no idea how to sight read well and translate sheet music to the guitar all that well without taking an hour
I came from a piano background before playing guitar and saxaphone. Imo, piano makes sight reading so much easier than pretty much and type of instrument xD
My dad has been playing for 30 years, he can play anything if you just play a second of it perfectly but when you show him music or ask him the shape of a g cord he doesn’t know, it’s amazing it truly is, I have a friend who’s been playing for the same amount but he can’t play by ear he has to read guitar sheet music to play it’s amazing on both sides.
Instarted playing drum and keyboard. This is how I learned to read. Play guitar over 40 years. Sight reading in keyboard is a breeze. For guitar I need to test several different ways, sometimes you have 10 different paths or more to do the same thing and then learn the one you've find most effective. The problem is not about reading . Is to find te best/right path. A line can be easy or impossible to play depends on a lot of factors. Keyboard or drum, as an example you dont have this BS. Every dot mean one especific action. On guitar its a nightmare sometimes discover the best path . and guitar articulation like floydrose techniques , multifinger tapping, bend behind nut, pick skratch , tap the bridge , slides and other especific guitar articulation, is absolutely nonsense abstration when written in standard notation. For guitar the combination tab + rhythm really is the optimal/more precise solution.
yeah me too. i still play the piano, but i got a guitar about a month and a half ago and i have an acoustic, so i haven’t put down the guitar a single day in weeks
100% of classical guitarrist know how to read sheet music. Also most of electric guitarrist also know, they know some theory too. The only ones who dont know are the acoustic guitarrist, they just need to knos some chords and have a decent ear for singing and thats all.
I used to but I usually read tabs so I kinda forgot, I mostly just use bass clef music sheets because their easier to read or piano music sheets because those are the only ones I’m good at
You didn’t see if maybe they played other instruments like piano which is why they could read sheet music. It sounds like that question you were trying to ask was if people who play guitar learned sheet music exclusively for that instrument, or whether they just play chords/ use tabs
For 4 years I have been used to reading music but now I have a new teacher and he only want me to play guitar with tabs (I never really played with tabs lol) 😅
i can read sheet music but that’s because i play acoustic electric and classical guitar aswell as piano so i kinda have to know it so i just use it for electric aswell then
I can’t read sheet music for guitar, but I could for singing or a light bit of piano, I just rarely ever use sheet music for music I would play on guitar
I play guitar and the only reason I know sheet music is because I used to play clarinet and i practice reading it with my keyboard just so I can say I know how to read it😭
My dad plays guitar and can’t read sheet music (or ‘the dots’ as he calls them). I’m a classically trained violinist, so whenever he gets stuck on part of a song he can’t play by ear I have to look up the sheet music and tell him what notes to play😂
tbh if you are just playing guitar there isn't really any reason to learn sheet music, it's not like you can't just listen to the song most of the time anyways and even if it was something like your band gave you sheets and not tabs it's not that hard to translate even for someone who can't read sheet music, it's just kinda an extra skill that might be nice to have besides tabs can be written to contain basically all the information sheet music can if they take the time to do it, it's just more readable for guitar
I teach guitar and I really try to push my students to read standard notation and tabs. If you ever take a music theory class you'll need to know how to read at least one clef.
"That's 0-3-5!?" is the most accurate thing any of them could have said
What's a 0?? (Pianist)
its wgen you dont fret@@EL_GOOFYY
A ok
@@EL_GOOFYY0 is an open string, meaning you're not touching any frets
A ok (x2)
We sure 65% didnt think tabs counted as sheet music?
That’s why he said unofficial
Lmao
It’s not, tabs are tabs and sheet music is sheet music
@@henrysouplover we're guitarists, not commonsense havers
@@Gameboy2007-Official😂😂😂
This will make a great college thesis
I actually just finished an English class last semester lol.
Ayy its that wonderwall guy
ikr
@@davidpazmino_😂😂
@@davidpazmino_i wonder if he will see this video
@@firedevzzbro he commented💀
@@ZmbieZT it was sarcasm
Ear training and being able to identify scale intervals, chord voicings by sound is honestly a more useful skill for most guitar players than reading sheet music
Exactly, but sheet music can help show the connections between notes and help people understand what the hell a B major cord is.
If you can read tabs that already a win lol
Very very wrong, tabs are different from sheet musics, tabs contains six lines for the guitar one, while sheet music contains 5, tabs uses numbers, sheet music uses music theory. To understand guitar tabs, you should be familiar on the finger board of guitar while to understand sheet music, you should understand MUSIC THEORY, the symbols like symbol of pizzicato, trills, glissando, allegro, BPM(s), notes/keys etc..
@@Christian_GabBut it's still a win.
@@Christian_Gaba lot of tabs use similar symbols, id argue both forms require some amount of music theory. A lot of tabs are also written to be spaced out in the correct rhythm, it’s a more intuitive note system.
@@buffpathfinder3607the numbers go too high for tabs while standard notation there are 12 notes shown and you can play in all positions
"thats 0-3-5!?" Made me laugh lol very relatable 😂
Smoke on the water is not 0-3-5
@@SLEEPYDEADBRAINit is your just barring the two strings
The only sheet music I know as a guitarist is from what I learned when I started out with the trombone😂
That's kinda how I am too. I started off with piano lol
ay i started on trombone too
@@Jabezrtpppiano makes it very easy, you both have the knowledge of music theory and because of the piano keyboard, you can visualize and learn the fretboard easily
The B string is literally C #C D #D E F #F G #G A #A B
Thing is I can read sheet music but can not translate it to guitar 💀
Lmao same
Same here, I learned to read sheet music back in 7th grade while playing the recorder lol
Same, learned sheet music for piano and voice, learned guitar by ear
Same here,I can read aswell but If I'd had to translate it to guitar I'd fail.😂 I learned to read because I play the piano too.
I started on sheet music 😂😂😂
Drummers sweating in the corner
😂😂
Our sheet music is the easiest but I still can't read it 😭
ya know, with the video flipped, and no key signature, I had no idea what I was looking at either. musical gibberish.
I've always wanted to be a musician, not just a guitar player. I also always wanted to know every note on the fretboard from the beginning. I had to know. Some people are wired that way and some are just happy learning some songs and playing wherever their ear takes them. The hard part about this is when you find yourself in a group of other musicians and you want to collaborate or share ideas. It's much easier to share musical ideas when everyone speaks the same musical language. There is no right or wrong. It's all your personal journey and what you want to get out of it. Enjoy music!!
i had never tried to read sheet music for guitar- but a month or so ago my friend and i got invited to record for an opera- and they gave me sheet music. luckily i grew up playing clarinet so i knew how to read but i ended up just learning the music note by note it seriously made me regret never even practicing reading the basics for guitar. since then ive gotten a real book and the chord names help soooo much but having the melody to read has become doable for me!!! super fun highly suggest guitarists learn
That's wassup! You had a whole character evolution ark lol
Thanks for the information
Sheets is literally first that we learned in guitar class☠️
I can read sheet just not for guitar
I can read sheet music and everything there like words on a page thanks to being in orchestra for years, but for me the issue is that I never memorized the note names on the fretboard, so I have no idea how to sight read well and translate sheet music to the guitar all that well without taking an hour
I've played violin for 9 years and I play guitar so yes
I just started to learn sheet music like 15-16 days ago and now I come across you what a great timing 😂😂❤
I came from a piano background before playing guitar and saxaphone. Imo, piano makes sight reading so much easier than pretty much and type of instrument xD
I also started on piano! That's how I learn sheet music proficiency. Then I lost it lol
i can 😎 but probably because guitar is my secondary instrument after piano
As a guitarist who is a percussionist in band, i see this as a win
Ask to singers, it’s gonna be 110% somehow
As a guitarist I can confidently say, what is sheet music
ive been playing guitar/bass for 6 months but played jazz/classical trumpet for 8 years so i had a head start with sheet music and theory
I can read it but it takes me like 10 minutes to figure it out lol. Been playing for over 8 yrs as well 😅
My dad has been playing for 30 years, he can play anything if you just play a second of it perfectly but when you show him music or ask him the shape of a g cord he doesn’t know, it’s amazing it truly is, I have a friend who’s been playing for the same amount but he can’t play by ear he has to read guitar sheet music to play it’s amazing on both sides.
Those who said yes just didn’t want to get embarrassed 😂😂
I can play violin, guitar, synth, organ, bass, double bass, piano, drums. And yet i can barely read sheet music
As a percussionist, I can read both clefs.
When standard notation isn't the standard:
There's definitely some survivorship bias with using Reddit, those who don't know how to read sheet music are much less likely to answer
You're officially my favourite music channel
At least David was the first on
yeah ikr
WHAT
tabs are all i need
Instarted playing drum and keyboard. This is how I learned to read. Play guitar over 40 years. Sight reading in keyboard is a breeze. For guitar I need to test several different ways, sometimes you have 10 different paths or more to do the same thing and then learn the one you've find most effective. The problem is not about reading . Is to find te best/right path. A line can be easy or impossible to play depends on a lot of factors. Keyboard or drum, as an example you dont have this BS. Every dot mean one especific action. On guitar its a nightmare sometimes discover the best path . and guitar articulation like floydrose techniques , multifinger tapping, bend behind nut, pick skratch , tap the bridge , slides and other especific guitar articulation, is absolutely nonsense abstration when written in standard notation. For guitar the combination tab + rhythm really is the optimal/more precise solution.
the only guitarists I know that can read sheet music were forced to learn by the band teacher
That was David pazmino 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Marching snare drummers that just got cut from snare and moved to front ensemble: 😐😐
As someone who plays multiple instruments I can say it’s not very hard!
I'm a pianist. I have been for half a decade, but I can't read sheet music. I just found it easier to learn with synthesia visualization.
Yo that's literally how I learned piano also. Used to watch Atinpiano
Meanwhile in Japan:
A guitarist who can play flute and piano using self taught sheet music
I am 14 and have been playing guitar for 7 years, but I can't read the music either 😢😂😢😂😅😅
You should do this with drummers
Ayy my boy david pazmino
I play guitar now but I was a sax player so my time playing sax helps me read sheet music, may not be the same style but it helps me know what notes
As a guitarist myself I can safely say I can’t read music but I can learn music by ear so I guess that’s a win win 😅
Most definitely a W
I can read sheet music but I can only play it on piano. Used to be a pianist but guitar is so much more fun
Ayy let's goo we both started on the piano!!
yeah me too. i still play the piano, but i got a guitar about a month and a half ago and i have an acoustic, so i haven’t put down the guitar a single day in weeks
I can't think of one reason why i would ever actually need to know sheet music. I learn everything by ear, it's very easy.
That nice! I pretty much never use sheet music
I can only read sheet music when im playing saxophone but not when i play guitar
100% of classical guitarrist know how to read sheet music.
Also most of electric guitarrist also know, they know some theory too.
The only ones who dont know are the acoustic guitarrist, they just need to knos some chords and have a decent ear for singing and thats all.
Quite true
When I started playing and was taking lessons on a small acoustic I could but now that I’m playing electric I have literally no clue 😭
POV of drummer: wait music is written 😂
Legend says he is still dancing till this day
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I didn’t realise you guys did that road trip. I could’ve sworn it was the lads over on throttle house that did that one.
What’s crazy is I can read but for some reason, not for guitar, only for my other instrument, cello.
Ah that's pretty cool!
can’t read sheet music but i knew that was smoke on the water lmao
I play guitar and I can't read sheet music. This would make a very good presentation
I could tell it was Smoke on the water without even reading the notes 😂
I used to but I usually read tabs so I kinda forgot, I mostly just use bass clef music sheets because their easier to read or piano music sheets because those are the only ones I’m good at
Good thing I started on piano. I can read sheet music
I can, but that's just because I played clarinet, and when I learned to play gutair, it was easy to learn.
Gotcha, that's pretty cool
its easy when you know which notes are which on the fretboard and as long as you know where the G is on the staff
You didn’t see if maybe they played other instruments like piano which is why they could read sheet music. It sounds like that question you were trying to ask was if people who play guitar learned sheet music exclusively for that instrument, or whether they just play chords/ use tabs
I know how to, but I am unskilled at it.
Bro I played that frozen sheet music in first violin that u pulled out for one of my concerts 💀 that caught me off guard
😂😂 I took the sheet music from my sibling lol
I’m a drummer and I read sheet music.
No excuses guys.
It's not about can you read it, it's about can you hear the music. So can you hear the music Robert?
Knew it was smoke on the water even without my guitar
i cant read sheet music but i guessed the first one correctly lmao
I can read sheet music the way a small child can read words - very slowly with lots of mistakes
I can read sheet music cause I’m primarily a saxophonist, but I can’t memorize the fret board which gets me 😭
the only reason i can understand SOME is because i started learning classical guitar before electrical, but honestly I always sucked at it😂
I can read sheet music I just don’t need sheet music cause I don’t play classical music cause I don’t play dinosaur dance music
That's a good thing to have. How did you learn?
I learned to read sheet music because of my piano and choir classes. For some reason, I don't do music sheet in my guitar class 😔
For 4 years I have been used to reading music but now I have a new teacher and he only want me to play guitar with tabs (I never really played with tabs lol) 😅
i can read sheet music but that’s because i play acoustic electric and classical guitar aswell as piano so i kinda have to know it so i just use it for electric aswell then
Bro tab is all you need, it tells you exactly the same as sheet music but easier to read
But it doesn't lol
It doesn't lol😂
most tab doesn’t tell you the rhythm like sheet music does. you also don’t learn much about theory when you read tab in comparison to sheet music
your ear is all you need *
@@Jerry-nu2rs and eyes lol
I can’t read sheet music for guitar, but I could for singing or a light bit of piano, I just rarely ever use sheet music for music I would play on guitar
That's nice especially with singing
I play guitar and the only reason I know sheet music is because I used to play clarinet and i practice reading it with my keyboard just so I can say I know how to read it😭
I'm the same lol. Only reason I know how to read(I suck at it) is because I learned from piano
I don’t play guitar and I cannot read tabs, but I can damn well read sheet music!
Haha that's tuff, what instrument do you play?
@@Jabezrtpp trumpet
Oh btw the first guy at the top is David Pazmino. He makes funny guitar skits
Bro literally drew the dots on the wrong side
I used to read sheet music in band in middle school after I entered high school and played guitar I lost the ability
I can sure as hell read sheet music, I just can't translate that to guitar
I hear that
@@Jabezrtpp I'm finally being able to transfer it to guitar
I can’t even begin to read tabs I’ve watched tutorials and I can’t figure the system out
I can read some sheet music but only because I have to know it for school. I couldn’t identify crap, though
I can sorta read sheet music for the first 4 strings because i played bass guitar a while back
I still do but i just look at tabs
Am a guitarist, learned music on piano and brass band instruments. I can read sheet music, but tabs are easier to learn to play from.
My dad plays guitar and can’t read sheet music (or ‘the dots’ as he calls them). I’m a classically trained violinist, so whenever he gets stuck on part of a song he can’t play by ear I have to look up the sheet music and tell him what notes to play😂
I can. But not fast and effectively. But I understand it and can read it at my own pace
That's kind of how I am also, but I'ma need google pulled up to the side 😂😂
Broo i cant read sheet music but at one glance i knew it was smoke on water😂
I can't read sheet music but I somehow guessed "smoke on the water"
Pretty good guess
I’m just lazy and want to play songs I like so I either use tabs or see if Marty’s done a vid on it 💀
tbh if you are just playing guitar there isn't really any reason to learn sheet music, it's not like you can't just listen to the song most of the time anyways and even if it was something like your band gave you sheets and not tabs it's not that hard to translate even for someone who can't read sheet music, it's just kinda an extra skill that might be nice to have
besides tabs can be written to contain basically all the information sheet music can if they take the time to do it, it's just more readable for guitar
I can read sheet music, but that is because I am also in band
I teach guitar and I really try to push my students to read standard notation and tabs. If you ever take a music theory class you'll need to know how to read at least one clef.
Not fully surw, but is that an rga in the last couple seconds?
And I’m apart of that 33%
I know theory and how to read sheet music but I can’t play from it from sight unless it’s on any instrument besides guitar 😂😂