Guitar transcriptionist Steve Vai says he used to use a half-speed tape player. Most professional tablature transcriptionists use special playback machines to allow them to dissect high-speed guitar solos. Where tab can really help, though, is a situation where you are trying to copy another guitarist note-for-note off of a record and the playing is too complicated or fast to figure out.
A typical non-music-reading guitarist who wants to play piano music on his guitar would probably transcribe the piano music one note at a time to guitar tablature and then play the tablature after listening to a professional recording of the same music (to get the rythms correct). Most guitarists use tab as a cheat sheet since they can't read music at all. If you can already play sheet music on a guitar (an insanely difficult feat due to the six strings) you probably wouldn't gain anything by "learning" tab. But would tab help me improve my abilities? how necessary is it that i learn tab? i play by ear excellently, thats how i've got by so far, that and just watching others play, plus i read piano music and transpose it to my guitar. anyone have recomendations on how i ought learn? i've looked at stuff on the internet.
but not exactly captivating.Īnyways, i can't read tab. but songs about my evenings at taco bell aren't really too interesting. i'd just write whatever i'd happen to be working on at the time. And then i wouldn't have to think up new subjects for my lyrics all the time. I'd be pleanty happy doing that the rest of my life. It turns out that having good stage presence is also a great skill for a scientific career. He has his own original songs too, but doesn't perform those for audiences too often. They parody lyrics with themes relevant to the scientists in the audience, and do a very good job of it. He chose science (the fool!), but puts on a great performance at scientific meetings! He and a few others have a recurring act at the social for one of our meetings. His band was doing very well playing in NYC clubs, and he had a really tough decision whether to stay in science or stay in music. I work with someone who had that tough decision to make when he was doing a post-doc.
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