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7 Advanced Techniques for Serious Fiddlers
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Picklefish said
as good as John plays, i'd hardly be the one to criticize his choice of how he plays any particular tune. maybe he didnt wanna play it that way. besides, any music that there is only one right way to play it is a crap composition.

Unless I missed it, nobody said there was only one right way to play STJ or anything else.  I transposed it from two sharps to one, for example. 

His choice to go out of scale did hurt my ear, and I think very few people would prefer the way he played it. Really, there is such a thing as shared musical taste, and his playing pushed the limit.

But I think you're right that it might be best to not criticize the way he played if you can't, after listening and watching, describe what he did play.

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Any set of notes can be notated in any key signature that the person writing it down chooses. 

I don't have any huge interest in learning STJ myself, but since the matter of key signatures and modes reared their ugly heads, I had to read through the posts. LOL

I have found version with the same notes and chords notated as either G/Em with the C# notated as an accidental, or notated as D/Bm without C as an accidental. 

Both are technically correct.  There is no error in calling it either "key" or notating it as one sees fit, really.  I personally would usually tend to prefer to notate it in a key signature where I need no (or the minimum possible number of) accidentals.  But that is strictly a matter of personal preference and the decision is always at the discretion of whoever is writing it down.

But, for example, if a player is more familiar with G/Em, they may prefer to have it notated in that and have the accidental.  If the accompaniment begins on an Em chord, that may simply feel more intuitive to them.  Nothing wrong with that.   

If a score can be played to deliver the needed pitches, then it is "correct".  What key signature the person writing it down prefers to notate it in is their choice.  So both choices that have been mentioned in this discussion can be perfectly correct.  No need for argument, gentlemen.

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Holy Crap on a Cracker

I learned some things and for~~ever will be learning things about the viddle from guys like John and many others inclusive of those on this site. > Its all good.

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Let's be respectful towards each other while explaining our views. There is no reason to get upset over things like this.

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