Re: Full Song vs Riff Nibbling

On May 23, 3:06 pm, "Lumpy" <lu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
RichL:

You need to develop your ear.
At least that way if it comes out
wrong you've got no one to blame
but yourself...

Hex:

Yeah I figured.  I can work out when
its wrong, but it takes a long
time to figure out whats right instead :)

So look at it this way...

TABs (any sheet music really) are SOMEone's
version of "listen to this, write down that".
We never know the skill level of the transcriber.
His ability to hear the "correct" notes and chords
could be a lot less advanced than yours.

Eliminate that 3rd person (the transcriber
guessing at the song and TABbing it) and
do the "transcribing" yourself. You don't
necessarily have to actually transcribe
it to paper. But if YOU could do the
"figuring out" wouldn't that be a pretty
good situation to be in instead of relying
on a kid in his bedroom somewhere?

You can only play about 40 notes on a guitar.
And over a third of those are repeats of others
just in different octaves. So there's really only
12 notes. And we usually play only 7 of them.

That means it's really not too difficult at all
to learn to play whatever you hear, instead of
relying on TAB, which is playing
what someone else THINKS they hear.

Chords are even simpler. We probably never play
12 different chords in any song. We rarely play
7. We usually play 3 or 4.

Simplify it even further because every song
contains note intervals and chord changes
from songs you already know.

Before long the only hard part is memorizing
the lyrics and fitting into the spandex.

Lumpy

You Played on Lawrence Welk?
Yes but no blue notes. Just blue hairs.

www.LumpyGuitar.net

Fitting into the spandex is ok, its the biting heads off bats that i
don't look forward too. Bat's are *SOOO* fattening.
.

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