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Post by Gerry C on Jul 19, 2010 13:49:15 GMT
Might be in a minority here but I've always found TAB quite useful as a supplement to listening. Like others, I'm a 'visual' person: it can still take me half an hour to figure out an 'intermediate' level lick from a recording alone, but if I have TAB it'll take me five minutes and if it's someone playing in front of me - whether live or on-screen - I can usually nail it straight away. And it's only taken me forty-odd years to be able to do it! Basically, I'll take any form of help I can get!
Seriously, I really envy young people starting out playing these days for the wealth of 'learning modes' available. When I was still teaching in school I used to chat to youngsters who were starting out, and would tell them about lifting the stylus-arm off the record and moving it back, slowing LPs down with a judiciously placed thumb etc etc. Their most frequent reaction - apart from sheer incredulity - was the question, "Sir, what's a stylus-arm?"
Musically, I never look any kind of gift horse in the mouth!
Cheerily,
Gerry C
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Post by Michael Messer on Jul 19, 2010 14:50:38 GMT
I agree that TAB is perfectly okay to use as a learning tool. What concerns me about TAB is whether it has been written by someone who knows what they are talking about.
In the case of the Muddy Waters TAB book; If the writer knows Muddy's work inside out & back to front, then it would be a great book to work with. I have looked at the book online at more than one store and so far cannot find the name of the writer.
Gerry, does your stylus-arm USB into a PC and play mp3s?
Shine On Michael
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Post by Gerry C on Jul 19, 2010 16:19:29 GMT
Michael, I think you must have spent too much time in Shanghai: you just slipped into Chinese without noticing...!! Cheerily, Gerry C
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Post by Michael Messer on Jul 19, 2010 16:40:13 GMT
Shine On Michael
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2010 0:07:31 GMT
But it only teaches you one song...... "I'm a Gnu, and how about you?....." I'll get me coat
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Post by fibrebundle on Jul 20, 2010 8:59:23 GMT
But it only teaches you one song...... "I'm a Gnu, and how about you?....." I'll get me coat As I said, it may be uncool in these parts..... Yes, it won't teach you any song, but it will empower you to figure out, and even compose a lot of music yourself, not just blues. Systematic ear training is used in all music schools, a lot of them taking help of midi software as well. There is a lot more to music than repetitive phrases and riffs.......
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2010 9:44:26 GMT
firebundle I totally agree with you!
Just that when I see gnu connected with music, that irritating song invades my head. Twas all in fun
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Post by fibrebundle on Jul 20, 2010 10:36:39 GMT
Of course! Though, since I am a Linux user, I'm just a little partial to Gnu.....
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Post by ken1953clark on Jul 20, 2010 17:24:09 GMT
Just to add my tuppenceworth, I have always found tab useful, thought can be limited. When I started out it's all there was, Stefan Grossman books refering to obscure albums that even Dobells couldn't get hold of.
I think of tab as the ingredients part of a recipe, you get the notes (if you are lucky) but not the method. If you always play the same sort of music (bake cakes) the results are more predictable, but if you switch to souflees all bets are off. Sorry to mix metaphors but you get the gist.
Anyway I find tab most useful to record what I've done after I've worked it out, as a kind of aide memoire, though until o get my ear trained that doesn't happen very often.
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Post by yoyopoc on Jul 22, 2010 16:09:38 GMT
Hi, I'm going to disagree with everyone else, just my rebellious nature:) I bought the book some years ago when I started getting into blues, both electric and slide, before my ears were anywhere good enough to learn from recordings. The tabs are very accurate and help greatly in getting me going, as time goes by the work done with this tab book helped train my ears and now I find it much easier to work songs out from the original recording, so go for it, it will help you develop your ears as you begin to recognise patterns you will come across in the book. Good luck
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Post by Michael Messer on Jul 23, 2010 12:16:36 GMT
I agree that any way in is helpful when learning to play. My only question about this book was that I couldn't find the name of the author. I did find a sample page of the TAB which was not as accurate as I had hoped to find. However, following that TAB would still be helpful in learning to play country blues guitar.
Shine On Michael.
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