lol that still no excuse not to apply yourself and be all you can be, to be the very best guitarist one can. honeslty this whole thing goes to show you how well people pay attention on here. i was commenting on the guy wanting info basicly in tab form.

"p.s it will be much easier for me to under stand if you use fret numbers instead of note names as im not quite fluent and it will just require a bit more effort ".

my reply was for him to put effort in his study and learn his notes and some theory.
i never did say anything about blues playing at all. never even used the word blues in any of my replies. i honestly dont think you will find any pro anywhere giving a strong argument on wasting your time learning basic music theory.
thats like a GED student arguing about not getting a higher education.
yeah sure a few GED and highschool drop outs have made something of themselves
in life but i guarantee you that you wont find them holding class about not finishing school
and going on to higher learning.
does knowing theory make you a better guitar player? not necessarily, but, i can garantee you that by knowing it, a lot more doors will open up for you much easier than if you dont.

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."

Maybe...and maybe not...
Let's compare someone else like Vivaldi and his Four Seasons Composition. Embodied in that work is all the emotions that one would find in Blues. Despair, Joy, melancholy, Anger...etc...etc
or Paganini's 24 Caprices, just the title says plenty.

What I'm trying to point out is that the "Blues " is actually a modern form of music. Modern in that there is no historical recall of it before the late 20th century. Yes it is derived from very old tribal rythms, but if you listen to early traditional blues, by that I mean the type that was sung in the fields by the slaves, many of those melodies are quite complex.

Some of the Blues men/women couldn't read or write music, but so it was with the classical and before them Baroque musicians of 200, 300 or more years ago.
They used tablature...the same system that is widely used today.

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they sure did. thing of it is, different insturments had their own "tablature".
couldnt very well give a guitarist a flute players tab now can you, cause hes to busy trying to read the pianists tab he just recieve. tab is so limited in its use its crazy.
take a handful of tab into a studio and give it the band that just hired you to come in and lay a few tracks of your own.
music notation is the standard for music language. it allows people to all speak the same language and to be able to understand everybody else. though tab can be very helpful in some learning situations it should not be used as the end of the road.

there again, music is one of the only things where you actually get out what you put in,
most of the time. if your happy with only knowing tab the thats fine it works for you and many others. if you want to keep learning and growing with limitless possibilities then learning to read and write music is the way to go.

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"The good thing is in a club situation, most of the patrons are trashed and really can't tell the difference."