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This usually isn’t how guitar is taught, learned, or tabbed. The low E is always on the bottom, just as it is in sheet music.


You are right. And i can read tabs. But still can’t help it when watching a real fretboard. Guess it’s the student’s view on the teacher’s guitar.


Do you want to watch or do you want to play? To play requires visualizing the guitar in 1st person perspective. You want to play guitar right?


Play.

The app made me realize that I have several mental representations, depending on whether I read tabs or a score (low at bottom) or when shown by someone else (front view, low at top).

Guess it comes from teachers and bandmates showing me something on their guitar.


yeah, this came up before when the last time I posted to HN. It seems like a small minority of users are wired differently in how they perceive the fretboard layout :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36086449




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