Musical score in 5/4 time with dynamics

Interpreting Score Notation for Guitarists.

Playing music from a score requires a well-defined interpretation of the symbols in the score that represent the music to be played. This page specifies that interpretation by defining guitar-specific notation used in Semiosis Music Publishing scores.

We use Gehrkens' Music Notation and Terminology as a reference specification for Semiosis Music Publishing scores. For elements missing from the reference specification, the guitar-specific notation accrues, or adds to, the reference specification. When elements of the guitar-specific notation differ from the reference specification, the guitar-specific notation supercedes the reference specification.

Elements in the specification are either terms or symbols from western musical notation. A guitar-specific interpretation defines a term and illustrates the use of the symbols associated with the term by example.

Term Type

Bends

Enharmonic Equivalents

Ergonomics

Harmonics

Legato

Power Chords

Slides

Whammy Bar

From time to time the guitar-specific notation with include new term types.