C means capotasto/cejilla in Italian/Spanish which means "Barre" so CVII is just "Barre 7th fret"
Imo it's way easier to read music with fingering notations
Classical Guitar is an instrument that originally came from Spain. But yes, it travelled to Italy very early on so it’s possible that the C is referring to the Italian word in this score rather than the Spanish one.
It depends on the edition of the score, but I think it’s the way you said it originally—it sounded like it’s the only possibility.
To be fair, i never thought of how it is a roman numeral too, so still found it funny. I bet you could reformat it a bit, adding the 1/2 108 part into the meme itself, and make a meme that would see a bit of circulation.
This is why I generally just transcribe everything to tablature. I can read sheet music just fine but I'll spend more time figuring out the fingering than it takes me to transcribe and actually know what fingers I should use.
Before y'all try to teach me from the start, I know how to read the fingering and positions on sheet music, I just don't understand what the heck does CVIII position means even if I could read just the notes there.
Yeah I was but now I know. I remembered bar indications differently so that's where the confusion comes from.
Fuck this is going to appear on guitarcirclejerk
Oh shit how didn't I thought about it. So i just have to barre with the finger since the first bars had open strings.
Anyway thanks for the clarification, I'm kinda new to classical and sheet music and the teacher just gave me the score without explaining anything lol. That's what I get for doing the meme without thinking.
It’s not referring to a literal capo, it means to Barre at the specified Roman numeral fret, a half bar (only the treble strings) is indicated by the 1/2 C if a specific amount of strings is needed you may see something like 4/6C V (4 strings barred on fifth fret.
The C stands for Cejilla which is Spanish for Capo, or Capotasto in Italian which also means Capo.
Clearly this means play these notes on the 54th fret
Clearly
Let me play this for you on my comedically oversized guitar
C means capotasto/cejilla in Italian/Spanish which means "Barre" so CVII is just "Barre 7th fret" Imo it's way easier to read music with fingering notations
and the 1/2 tells you it's a half barre (3 but sometimes 4 strings)
I've seen 2/3C or 4/6C for a 4-string barre
Are we sure it’s not C for cejilla in Spanish?
I didn't say it wasn't. Music is written in many languages so I don't see why it wouldn't be. Cejilla just means capo as well, so it's the same thing.
Classical Guitar is an instrument that originally came from Spain. But yes, it travelled to Italy very early on so it’s possible that the C is referring to the Italian word in this score rather than the Spanish one. It depends on the edition of the score, but I think it’s the way you said it originally—it sounded like it’s the only possibility.
me who can't even read music
Ah yes, fractions 1/3, 2/3, and 5/6.
It’s important to remember that unless otherwise stated, most music is assumed to be in 1. Unless it’s a waltz, in which case we know to use 0.75.
OK people someone already clarified it. It was very dumb of my part to do this meme without thinking
To be fair, i never thought of how it is a roman numeral too, so still found it funny. I bet you could reformat it a bit, adding the 1/2 108 part into the meme itself, and make a meme that would see a bit of circulation.
Yeah but I'd get the same result LoL
dude, i assumed you knew. it’s legit funny.
It's not a bad meme. But I definitely didn't think of "C" as being a Roman numeral. The caption helped.
Lol. I would love to adopt the combined notation+tab combo
Can you replace the word fingering?
This is why I generally just transcribe everything to tablature. I can read sheet music just fine but I'll spend more time figuring out the fingering than it takes me to transcribe and actually know what fingers I should use.
C is for barre always in this context (next to Latin numbers etc)
Lol
Before y'all try to teach me from the start, I know how to read the fingering and positions on sheet music, I just don't understand what the heck does CVIII position means even if I could read just the notes there.
Wait, i can't quite tell from your post, you do realize that C = capo/bar, right?
I also thought that he was joking, but now I'm not so sure!
I LOLed regardless of whether OP was serious or not!
Yeah I was but now I know. I remembered bar indications differently so that's where the confusion comes from. Fuck this is going to appear on guitarcirclejerk
Oh shit how didn't I thought about it. So i just have to barre with the finger since the first bars had open strings. Anyway thanks for the clarification, I'm kinda new to classical and sheet music and the teacher just gave me the score without explaining anything lol. That's what I get for doing the meme without thinking.
How do you do half a capo though?
It’s not referring to a literal capo, it means to Barre at the specified Roman numeral fret, a half bar (only the treble strings) is indicated by the 1/2 C if a specific amount of strings is needed you may see something like 4/6C V (4 strings barred on fifth fret. The C stands for Cejilla which is Spanish for Capo, or Capotasto in Italian which also means Capo.
Only covers half the strings
Huh. Never seen that. Tmyk. Thanks.
It's a half Capo, the Italian word for barr.
Lmao
It's called a half barre. You Barre the first 3 strings only.
Half barre
That’s a half barre chord, from the notes you’d only barre the 1st and 2nd string (unless that’s an Eb, then you’d barre the 3rd string as well)