Members bdemon Posted May 6, 2003 Members Posted May 6, 2003 It's like this; I teach guitar to about fifty students, most of them on some sort of sight reading book, usually Mel Bay or Hal Leonard Grade One. Great books for learning how to sight read, but the teenagers often grumble about how they hate the cheesy folk and classical tunes. I try to explain to them how sight reading is the language of music and all the benefits of learning it (learn music on other instruments, professional gigs, etc.) but they're not always convinced. If I could find some contemporary or popular music charts I might be able to help them take to this stuff easier. Any resources I could check out? Thanks. Keith
Members 335clone Posted May 6, 2003 Members Posted May 6, 2003 This guys site is the only one I have seen that has rock charts.http://home.postech.ac.kr/~bbeck/down/tab/
Members desmoines_bluesman Posted May 6, 2003 Members Posted May 6, 2003 I learned rock with a lot of Clapton and Hendrix tabs. Hopefully your students don't think of them as too old school! The best part about them is that they're usually on music store shelves (ie, Sam Goody) as well as the guitar stores, so there's wider access to it. Between EC and JH, I think all the "charts" you'd ever need are there. Of course, then there's Pete Townshend, but his non-power chord stuff might put some kids off.... I personally cringe when I hear Creed, Blink 182, Staind, Linkin Park, etc, but if you want to find tab books of their music as well, it's just as widely available. If you choose this route, make sure to let your students know that these modern rock acts tend to use more non-standard tunings and guitars (ie, baritone, 7-string). Hope that helps.
Members bdemon Posted May 7, 2003 Author Members Posted May 7, 2003 I'm trying to get these kids to learn sight reading. I give them plenty of tabs, and have checked out the Linkin' Park tab books & stuff (the whole book is basically on drop D power chord, played on different frets! Cool rhythms, though.), but I want to break down the resistance to reading notes. Throwing wave after wave of "Aura Lee" doesn't help. Keith
Members 335clone Posted May 7, 2003 Members Posted May 7, 2003 Originally posted by bdemon I'm trying to get these kids to learn sight reading. I give them plenty of tabs, and have checked out the Linkin' Park tab books & stuff (the whole book is basically on drop D power chord, played on different frets! Cool rhythms, though.), but I want to break down the resistance to reading notes. Throwing wave after wave of "Aura Lee" doesn't help. Keith Did you look at the site I posted? It says tabs, but is really charts with tab below the staff. Like this:http://home.postech.ac.kr/~bbeck/down/tab/black%20sabbath/black1%20copy.jpeg
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