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In Reply to: Or open tune a six string guitar to A C D E G A... posted by DeKay on December 19, 2014 at 09:20:03:
You are right to a degree, but even on an open-tuned guitar, and even using a slide, to play a melody you still have to skip over half-steps that are not part of the melody.
Please note that I would give just about the same advice to any person with no former musical training who wanted to play an instrument--some instrument, any instrument. I am not "dumbing down" my advice simply because a person is blind and/or somewhere on a diagnostic spectrum.
The nice thing about starting with pentatonic instruments, as just about 100 years of Waldorf education and about 60 years of Orff education have proven, is that it lessens the fear of "hitting a wrong note."
But each student is different. Perhaps if someone placed a French horn in this woman's hands, she would find her true voice, and within 90 days be able to play Gregorian chant on the French horn which, don't laugh, is otherworldly... .
If a person starts on a pentatonic instrument and 90 days later is feeling blocked by the instrument's limitations, no harm done. But if a person gets thrown into the deep end of the diatonic pool and feels hopeless, there often is harm done, IMHO.
ATB,
John
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- Yes, but... - John Marks 09:37:07 12/19/14 (1)
- Did not consider slide use @ all, nor... - DeKay 17:03:38 12/19/14 (0)
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