[Menvi-discuss] Guitar

Tue Nov 27 19:34:49 EST 2012

Kelsey,

What might also help, probably more than anything else, is if you can
get the guitar over the Christmas break and play around with it
yourself.  You can use google or youtube to look up basic fingerings
for chords like G major, C major, D major, E minor, A minor, etc.
This way you will not only know a few chords before the class and be
ahead of the game, but by teaching yourself these basic chords it will
give you a chance to get comfortable with fingerings.

Also, you might be able to find a few helpful videos on youtube about
other aspects of playing such as strum patterns.  These should get you
started.  Another good source is Bill Brown's Guitar by Ear for the
Visually Impaired.  I believe it might be on ITunes, and he describes
all the fingerings he teaches in tactile terms, telling you what to
feel for rather than flying through the course with visual cues.  Hope
this helps.

On 11/27/12, Jacqui CONN <jconn11 at eq.edu.au> wrote:
> 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.
> Jacqui
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> On 28/11/12, Timothy Clark Music <timothyclarkmusic at me.com> wrote:
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>> correct chris.   i never understood why putting a dot would help.
>>  actually, it would inhibit your playing and that's never good.
>>  never, never, never and i repute, never put anything like a stupid old
>> dot on any instrument.
>>  you can feel the instrument whatever it is.
>>  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.
>>  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.
>>  well, anyway, i hope this helps.
>>  Timothy   Your friend in the music industry
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>> http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com(http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com/)
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>>   On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Chris Smart wrote:
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>> >  Agreed.
>> > you can feel the frets as well as hear what happens when you cross over
>> > them.
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>> > At 04:00 PM 11/27/2012, you wrote:
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>> > > what i don't understand is why they even need to be placed there.
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>> > > 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.
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>> > > Timothy
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>> > > Your friend in the music industry
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>> > > <http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com(http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com/)>http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com(http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com/)
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>> > > On Nov 27, 2012, at 1:15 PM, <mailto:taeschr at ix.netcom.com
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>> > > > 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 miss.
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