Re: [Harp-L] Teachers do you write educational music for your students?

[David Michelsen Tuition <dmharpman@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Thank you for your response. The number of times I hear adults wishing 
they'd paid more attention to their music when they were at school.
I use music with Tab.

To be honest the Tab  has very little meaning for me, but folks seem to 
find it a comfort. As a notation system it seems to me to be deeply 
flawed, not least of these flaws being that when you can see the numbers 
you can't hear the sound and when you can hear the sound you can't see 
the numbers.

 My students are not required to use music notation but they mostly 
(say 98%) want to. I use simple tunes to help all starting players 
become orientated on the harp.

As I understand it the numbers system was an idea from Hohner 
publishing, though they may have got the idea from else where. Any one 
know the history of Harmonica Tab? What's the earliest harmonica that 
any one has with numbers on. I have Hohner group music with music and 
Tab and also just tab from Ca 1923.

Here's an experiment I tried at one of the World Championships, which 
you can also try. Take simple well known melody and write it out as 
untitled Tab and also as untitled music. Then get 10 tab users to each 
play the tab version independently and get 10 music readers to play the 
music version, also independently.
 I found that for the Tab I got 10 different tunes and for the music I 
got one tune played 10 times.
-David

On 26/06/2011 08:43, Robert Hale wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I write tab for diatonic players, and music notation plus tab for 
> chromatic players.
>
> The catalog for chromatic is large if they read music. Diatonic 
> players, rarely (for me) desire note-reading. Instead, they learn by 
> tab and then to play by ear.
>
> Stay well
> Play well
>
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