I'm working at a research lab where we are designing assistive musical instruments for disabled musicians. A couple projects involve building guitars that can be played one handed, and have all the chord changes handled by transposing/muting the 6 open notes played on the strings according to guitar tabs which encode finger positions on the fret board.
I don't play guitar, and all my background music theory is primarily keyboard based. Learning about guitar tabs, and finger positions and techniques, a lot about guitar based music makes much more sense, and if you even just look at the data behind guitar tabs is smells like it's own dialect of music.
That's just chords, the dynamics are a whole other dimension of expression and communication. A single note with expressive control can communicate a lot.
And then rhythm! A game my daughter and I play is to name that song just by clapping it.
The bandwidth of communication in music is really quite astounding.
I don't play guitar, and all my background music theory is primarily keyboard based. Learning about guitar tabs, and finger positions and techniques, a lot about guitar based music makes much more sense, and if you even just look at the data behind guitar tabs is smells like it's own dialect of music.
Take a look at this chords database. https://tombatossals.github.io/react-chords/
That's just chords, the dynamics are a whole other dimension of expression and communication. A single note with expressive control can communicate a lot.
And then rhythm! A game my daughter and I play is to name that song just by clapping it.
The bandwidth of communication in music is really quite astounding.
It is the original virtual reality.