Members paulo999 Posted February 7, 2006 Members Posted February 7, 2006 Obviously there's various tabs on t'internet that people have transcribed, with various different versions for a tune. I assume there are such things as endorsed / official tabs - in books or whatever. Are they much more accurate? e.g. checked over by the band, or are they just another interpretation that may or may not be what the guitarist plays (if we took, say, the album studio version as the arrangement 'of record')? There's some cases where it's nice to get an intentionally simpler version (as a beginner), like the Oasis Wonderwall I found earlier which is alot easier to play than the more accurate versions. But sometimes I really want the challenge of playing a tune "properly".
Members PRSnotPOS Posted February 8, 2006 Members Posted February 8, 2006 http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1139356&highlight=tabs+piss+you+off
Members fatfat Posted February 8, 2006 Members Posted February 8, 2006 I find that while not always accurate on the fingering, tab books usually have the notes pretty much right. They are not checked by the band (nor endorsed), they're just someone else's interpretation -- but usually this person has somewhat of a clue how to play stuff. Some people that post tabs on the 'net have no clue wtf they are doing and often the notes are not even close. Plus, tab books will have the actual musical notation, so you can see the actual timing of the notes played (if you know how to read music). Plus, they usually have the whole song, unlike most half-ass tabs out there.
Members raggety Posted February 8, 2006 Members Posted February 8, 2006 Some books seem way off the mark. one Dylan book i have shows chords Ab-Db-Eb in some convoluted fingerings, where it would be much easier to capo 1st fret and play G-C-D which is probably what dylan would have done?
Members alez Posted February 8, 2006 Members Posted February 8, 2006 This is what the user Simeon once said to me: what i would definitely say is that never use charts from the internet - i havn't found a single one yet that has been correct! I thing the above may well be true for tabs as well Cheers, Alex
Members Li Shenron Posted February 8, 2006 Members Posted February 8, 2006 There's no match between a book of tabs and a tab file found from the internet (on the average at least). But then books can have their errors too, due to bad editing and printing. For instance, I have the book of Dream Theater's "Image & Words" and it seemed to be very accurate to me. Being away from home, I borrowed a book of the same record from the library, it was a different edition (e.g. with softer cover), and nearly every song has at least a couple of errors. Anything from numbers on the wrong string, a wrong chord, and in one song even a completely missing part about 4 bars. That's just an example of a truly bad edition, and it never happened to me before. So long about "real errors", then it's a different thing the issue of the tab being exactly how the original guitarist plays it. Some books bear the mark that they were EDITED by the original artist, but I don't believe it very much. Again I can quote "Images & Words" (just because it doesn't happen often that I can compare 2 versions of the same thing ). My own book has definitely a different tab than the library book in many places. The library book has a "Edited by John Petrucci" note (I don't remember if the same note is in my own book too), and yet the differences are such that the library tabs are MORE DIFFICULT to play in almost all the cases. Of course we can imagine that Petrucci could just easily play the more difficult version However some of the parts (e.g. guitar/keyboard duet in Take the Time) in the library book are INSANELY more difficult than the same thing in the first book, where they were actually totally feasible (if even I could play them...). My idea is that the writer of the 2nd book must have written them down by slowing the record down to half speed, and did not attempt to play them at full speed, hence resulting in accurate notes but impossible tabs. I have no idea how often it could happen, because this was the only record which I have seen in two different prints.
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