Reading music is hard and there's a reason.

Western musical notation is a general-purpose graphical language. Guitarists need to interpret what the arranger means when they read music from a score. Arrangers need a special-purpose language to notate music that guitarists understand.

Contemporary scoring software allows us to define a semantics for a guitar-specific notation using a special-purpose graphical language and publish it online. Guitarists can then better interpret and arrangers better notate a score.

Read Interpreting Score Notation to understand how guitar-specific notation is used in Semiosis Music Publishing scores.

Order scores of original compositions and selected arrangements here.

Order high-resolution recordings of original instrumental music at Random String Records.