Understanding vertical tabs

Notation
#1

Could you please help me to understand the vertical tabs that were provided as pre-reading to the beginner’s shamisen course at the Prague Shakuhachi Festival 2015?

I know that the tab is read vertically from right to left, and that the 0-12 “frets” are labelled by “0, 1, 2, 3, 3#, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10b, 10”. But that’s all (for now). I do not have a clue about Japanese alphabets/symbols. Sure we will be told more during the course, but I would appreciate to come bit prepared.

I assume this has been discussed many times so please point me at least to the respective discussion.

Thanks
Mirek

P.S. We’ve got 11 pages, I am sharing just the 1st one for educational purposes. Hope it’s OK.

#2

Hi Mirek. Here is a link to an old discussion about juita (It looks that the one you have to play is a jiuta notation). Linda’s explanation should help you :

#3

Access my blog regarding learning the Jiuta. It will have all the notations explained. Further questions, contact me directly.

Here is the blog:

http://jiuta.blogspot.com/p/learn-shamisen-along-with-me.html

#4

Thanks for your answers, Patrick and Gary.

#5

How about triangles, triangles with a dot inside, or japanese numbers to represent some notes?

#6

“Japanese numbers to represent some notes” - I’ve learned that for the notes on the san-no-ito (thinnest string #3) the positions are written in Arabic numbers, on ni-no-ito (middle string #2) in Japanese numbers, and on ichi-no-ito (thickest string #1) in the same Japanese numbers preceded by the symbol that looks like end of the roof and the wall or like “1”.

No clue about triangles (unless you mean the triangle without bottom side, that would probably be pull-off - hajiki). But today is the first shamisen lesson [for absolute beginners] in Prague Shakuhachi Festival so I will sure learn more.

#7

How about triangles, triangles with a dot inside,…

Triangle is “half of the circle”. While empty circle is quarter note pause, empty triangle is eighth note pause. While circle with a dot inside is continuation of previous note for another quarter note, triangle with a dot inside is the continuation of previous note for another eighth note.

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