[Menvi-discuss] Guitar

Tue Nov 27 20:11:55 EST 2012

Hello,
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.
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.
They aren’t classical unfortunately, but many of the ideas are the same I believe.
Most importantly, you will start developing calluses and you can get through your crying 2 weeks without your friends seeing you... 
After 2 weeks they shouldn’t hurt as much, so life will be much better for you when class starts.
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.
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.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs

From: Jacqui CONN 
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 4:19 PM
To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy 
Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Guitar

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

On 28/11/12, Timothy Clark Music <timothyclarkmusic at me.com> wrote: 
        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  
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        On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Chris Smart wrote:

          Agreed.
          you can feel the frets as well as hear what happens when you cross over them.

          At 04:00 PM 11/27/2012, you wrote:

            what i don't understand is why they even need to be placed there.

            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.

            Timothy

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            On Nov 27, 2012, at 1:15 PM, <mailto:taeschr at ix.netcom.com>taeschr at ix.netcom.com wrote:

              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.

              Richard

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