should I give up tabs completly

Vacume · #1 03-30-2006, 05:24 PM

Ive been learnin notation for a while and I realize I should be tryin to learn simple songs by ear now but my problem with notation is that when you wanna learn notation for the hard stuff u have to buy the entire album with it as there are no notation sites on the net. wut do u guyz do?

canopener · #2 03-30-2006, 06:36 PM

I would learn some punctuation first. Then, only use tabs in emergencies.

Poop-Loops · #3 03-30-2006, 07:14 PM

Then get a job and just buy the notation books.

fr0me0 · #4 03-30-2006, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by canopener

I would learn some punctuation first. Then, only use tabs in emergencies.

couldn't say it any better myself

weeding · #5 03-31-2006, 04:47 AM

People will bash me for this, but as it has effected me;

TAB=NO NO NO NO NO

TheJimster · #6 03-31-2006, 06:11 AM

Try to use as much notation as can. BUt as I've learned your favorite artists might not have a notation book. Tabs just make you unfamiliar to reading notation.

BassChuck · #7 03-31-2006, 07:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by weeding

People will bash me for this, but as it has effected me;

TAB=NO NO NO NO NO

+1

get off TAB ASAP

Willem · #8 03-31-2006, 07:31 AM

why getting of tab? it's easy... it's a guideline.

Otso · #9 03-31-2006, 07:47 AM

Notation is the universal written language of music. Instead of having a different way to write music for every instrument (like tabs, which don't even show rhythm), why not just have one system that can be used for any instrument.

Alan Vorse · #10 03-31-2006, 08:18 AM

I have played in many musical situations over the years. No one has ever handed me a sheet with a part TAB'd out.

Joe P · #11 03-31-2006, 08:36 AM

I kind of laugh at this subject sometimes - because I've felt so guilty about not learning to read any kind of music notation, and always learning everything by-ear. But learning by-ear like this has gotten easier and easier for me - to the point where I'm lately starting to hear a song somewhere, and just picture in my head the bass part on a fretboard.

Then I read about these guys who are 'hooked' on tabs like this... now THAT'd be bad!

I've definately gotten continuously better at hearing bass parts in a mix - of course what I hope I'm heading-for is being able to just 'play what I hear in my head', but I know that if I learned to read standard music notation, it'd help that too. I mean I can see how someone would get hooked on tabs, but I imagine that's not so-much the case with regular staff-music, because I gather it's set up in a way that has you picturing the intervals - as compared to tabs, which are more just 'where to put your finger'.

Joe

PaulMacCnj · #12 03-31-2006, 09:58 AM

TAB and notation have to be approached in the manner that you should believe your ears and not what's written. Sure, there are a lot of crappy TABs out there, but don't assume that notation is always 100% correct. Some notation in songbooks is so off that you wonder if the person doing the transcription was tone deaf.

Paul Mac