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<DIV>Hello,</DIV>
<DIV>Most sighted people when they are starting look at their fingers while they
are placing and jumping from chord to chord or fret to fret and they can see how
many frets there are between their fingers and the nut.</DIV>
<DIV>Also, Talking Tabs from APH is amazing for getting started with guitar.
They go through buying a guitar, the parts of a guitar, strumming patterns,
chords, and everything up to playing high level songs on the guitar. They also
give you tracks to play along with.</DIV>
<DIV>They aren’t classical unfortunately, but many of the ideas are the same I
believe.</DIV>
<DIV>Most importantly, you will start developing calluses and you can get
through your crying 2 weeks without your friends seeing you... <IMG
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<DIV>After 2 weeks they shouldn’t hurt as much, so life will be much better for
you when class starts.</DIV>
<DIV>Because you are a music major and have taken basic theory, guitar will be
much more strait forward because you will understand why you need all your
fingers for a chord.</DIV>
<DIV>If I were you, I’d try jumping around to different frets without the dots
for your thumb to feel, but if it seems a little hard, put some small dots on
the back of the neck so your thumb will be able to give you some point of
reference. No one will see them unless they are behind you, and it is less than
the sighted people get to start. Remove them when you feel like it.</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jconn11@eq.edu.au
href="mailto:jconn11@eq.edu.au">Jacqui CONN</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:19 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Menvi-discuss] Guitar</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Don't know if you already know but many guitars have small studs embedded
into the side of the neck, closest to the low E string, so that we sighted
people can readily identify how many frets along we're playing or placing a
barre chord. They are usually flush with the wood but I think a braille reader
would be able to find them - just for interest sake. Not all guitars have them -
I've just checked some of them at my school.</DIV>
<DIV>Jacqui</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV><SPAN>On 28/11/12, <B class=name>Timothy Clark Music
</B><timothyclarkmusic@me.com> wrote:</SPAN>
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<P>correct chris.
<DIV>i never understood why putting a dot would help. </DIV>
<DIV>actually, it would inhibit your playing and that's never good.
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<DIV>never, never, never and i repute, never put anything like a stupid
old dot on any instrument. </DIV>
<DIV>you can feel the instrument whatever it is. </DIV>
<DIV>if it's a steel guitar for example, you can use your slide to go up
and down the nek but dotting it, no don't do it. learn regularly. do you
know how sighted people would view you if you walked into a room with
dots all over your instrument? let's leave it at the fact that they
wouldn't view you like a normal guitar player. your best bet is to learn
normally as it's all tactual in the first place. </DIV>
<DIV>sorry if i came across as being harsh but it irritates the tar out
of me when i hear someone thinking about putting dots over their
instruments to improve the playing. it's nothing against any of you it
just bugs me. that's all. </DIV>
<DIV>well, anyway, i hope this helps.<BR>
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<DIV>Agreed.<BR>you can feel the frets as well as hear what happens
when you cross over them.<BR><BR><BR><BR>At 04:00 PM 11/27/2012, you
wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">what i don't understand is why they even
need to be placed there.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">i'm totally blind and been playing guitar
now for 8 or 9 years and i've never had anything on my guitar. if
your guitar needs adapted because you are blind there's a
problem.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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industry<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On Nov 27, 2012, at 1:15 PM, <<A
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">A simple solution that seems to work well
for blind students of guitar, is a small band-aid placed behind
the neck - direction with the curved radius - and with the pad
centered; I would place them only at the 5th and 7th
fret-positions. They can be removed easily, and are hard to
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