Re: Help... ELP From the Beginning

Derek Tearne <derek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jim Carr <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Furthermore - the melody line is as important and distinctive a
part of the tune as the line you've written out. That would not be
so easy to write out in tab.

Nor would it be easy to write out in standard notation. However, if
you did so in software such as Sonar, you could export it as tab.
Still, what's your point?

My point is that, beyond the most trivial example of very simple tunes
with equal length notes TAB really doesn't work very well.

Why people feel the need to point out its flaws and the ways it is
NOT intended to be used *every* time the subject comes up is beyond
me.

OK. There's an obvious flaw in your TAB of Peter Gunn, when used
exactly as it is intended.

I'm kind of surprised no one has pointed it out yet - but then like
most of these discussions I suspect everyone has been discussing this
without having a bass in their hands.

OK, so it's difficult to type with a bass in your hands - don't worry,
it is alright to put it down after doing the exercise.

So. Given that tab as it is intended to be used - ie. to supply the
fingering position to play the piece and be read along with listening
to the original recording.

OK. Let's all go out and get our basses, print out the tab, fire up
iTunes, go to the iTunes store and play the preview for Peter Gunn -
Henry Mancini Orchestra, original version - it's OK you don't have to
pay to listen to the preview. Or go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dechpnavTyA&feature=PlayList&p=C56CA79544
D15F2E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1

What flaws of TAB are revealed by this simple exercise?

I've already done this exercise and could, of course, just give the
answers - but I think it would be an interesting exercise for everyone
here to try - tabophiles and tabskeptics alike.

If you watch the clip watch carefully between 1 minute and 1 minute 30

Small prediction - js will start foaming at the mouth at around 1:19
- I know I did...

You continue to overlook what I believe is one of Jim's main points.

Tab is meant to be used in conjunction with listening. That's where you
get the timing, that's where you get the nuances. You're battling a
straw man here.

I'm not much of a tab user, so I don't have a personal axe to grind.
However, I can't help noticing that, whenever this discussion arise,
people are doing a lot of shouting past each other.


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