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so this is how you learn how to play guitar in 2025

by the way i would like to direct a special “fuck you” to the people who legislated that macrovision copy protection has to be present on analog video, because i believe you're indirectly responsible for the playstation 2 not supporting rgb video out for dvd playback specifically

why does the standard numbering of guitar strings go from the highest-pitched string to the lowest-pitched string. this has always annoyed me

okay shitposting aside i think i already love the format of this book, ”Spela elgitarr från början”

the concept is: 35 real songs, arranged with notation and tab in a pedagogical order, with a CD containing guitar-free + full tracks for each, and a DVD containing video lessons

naturally there is a caveat to the “real songs” bit: the first five are simple things written by one of the authors. for example, the very first song has you play nothing but E and G on the low E string as single quarter notes. i'd be surprised if they didn't do this really

given i have technically been playing guitar for half a year, the first song is obviously piss easy, and i learnt almost nothing from the video for it.

but i am loving the format already because fully-arranged backing tracks with main guitar removed makes me itch to improvise!!!

why do i always get my best musical ideas when i'm nowhere near an instrument or when i'm supposedly practicing something boring or when i'm not paying attention to my fingers and they just Do Something…

@hikari The answer is basically just Hysterical Raisins, but one possible argument is that when you do guitar tab (and other tablature preceeding it) the thin string is typically at the top, and you read top to bottom?

That convention aligns somewhat with the typical western musical convention that higher notes go on upper lines.

On the other hand, I just would call the strings by their note names and always say "high e / low e"

@shift_reset the thing is we always count notes in ascending pitch, C is the 1st note of the scale, D is the 2nd, and so on…

@hikari there's a plausible explanation that the notation applied to 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 stringed instruments with more and more thick strings added. If you get a 7-string guitar, you can play all the 6-string guitar pieces without changing anything about the notation at all. There is some speculation that this also might be related to lute tabulatures, which were exactly the same as guitar ones, with thin string at the top - exactly as if you're looking at your fretboard while playing with your lute laying flat on your lap.
Apparently, this notation was in use for at least 200 years, but likely far longer.

@hikari Which problem exactly do you have?
I remember that on unmodded PS2 DVDs wouldn't play properly when using a RGB cable (picture was green, as if it was sending YPbPr signal).

@jernej__s yes, exactly