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In
this modern era in which every house hold has a computer or two, on the
internet you can pretty much find a dumbed down version of everything. Recently
I have been looking at learning the guitar by using only chords. Basically this
is done in rather a crude manner. A guitar fret board is drawn on a web
page using hyphens and a letter representing a specific note is drawn on this
‘fret board’ indicating where you must place your finger whilst strumming.
After
having tuned my new guitar using a simple online tuner (all you need is a
computer with a microphone) , I set off and started strumming whilst holding
the guitar string in the place indicated and eventually after messing about for
20 minutes I actually recognised the sounds coming out of my guitar as the song
I was trying to play. You do have to kind of jiggle about with the speed at
which you are doing It as if you do it too slow or too fast it will not sound
right.
I
messed about with a couple of days I started showing off to my friends look I
can play the guitar, but was I just a monkey seeing and then doing? Is this any
real kind of skill? Is it really a skill to tune a guitar using a computer and
not your ear? Had I actually learned anything or was I just going through the
motions of something I had memorised?
If
you think that a real musician knows his instrument so well, he can tune it
without help from technology, he instinctively knows where all the notes are
just by the feel of it, without having to count frets and of course hand him
any piece of sheet music be it Jessie J sheet music or Elton
John Sheet music and they can recreate it just like the artist intended,
and not because they have memorised it, but because the musical scores are
another language a canvas for musicians to appreciate even if they aren’t
wielding their instrument.
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