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This is from the era when guitar tab was not so ubiquitous…and I seem to remember a lot of the chords in pop song books printed with dots on the fret 45 years
by brudgers 4y ago
This is from the era when guitar tab was not so ubiquitous…and I seem to remember a lot of the chords in pop song books printed with dots on the fret 45 years ago.
But it has been awhile.
- DonaldFisk 4y agoI have music books I bought in the 1970s, and those all have dots behind the frets.
- brudgers 4y agoI think you are right, and I just checked out a preview of Mel Bay's Rhythm Chord Guitar Method, and it's dots between frets. Maybe it was my guitar teacher who wrote tab that way when I asked him how to play something. Which makes sense to me since it seems like it would be simpler to write tab that way by hand...as opposed to typesetting it where it would probably be about the same amount of work either way. What I mean is dots on frets would almost certainly be how I would write down tab for myself...and it seems like it would be clear enough to anyone who had a guitar in their hand.