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How do you read music? Tab or Clef


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I learned to read the Bass Clef stave ....I'm not great, but I know all the notes and the values of them and rests, the signs and symbols and words like 'Allegro' - but I don't read Tab. I'll admit don't know much about it ...is it a simple as I think: 4 lines and fret numbers? If so, how do you know how long a note is? Or is it used to quickly work out songs you've already heard? If you gave 2 players the same Tab chart of a song that neither had heard before, would they both play it the same? I'm asking this because a couple of kids who I teach bass to give me Tab charts, and I listen to the song first. Then the Tab gives a head start on what is played. Is that the idea?

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Just tab for me, but i'm going to get myself some home schooling on clef, I have been able to read music in the past because I used to play the silver version of the trumpet which im to lazy to look up how to spell (coronet or something :confused: ).

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Just tab for me, but i'm going to get myself some home schooling on clef, I have been able to read music in the past because I used to play the silver version of the trumpet which im to lazy to look up how to spell (coronet or something
:confused:
).

 

A silver trumpet is a silver trumpet, a cornet/coronet (depends on which side of the Atlantic) is a bit different.:)

 

I can read tabs, charts, and lines, bass and treble clef.

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:o
i've always thought trumpets were brass only instruments, i've
never
seen any artist with a silver full size trumpet?

 

They are full-brass; the silver is only a plating on the outside except for things like Schilke's optional Sterling Silver bell.

 

My own, a silver plate over brass:

 

Kanstul16005.jpg

 

While a cornet is wrapped a bit differently, and has different tubing on the inside.

 

cornet.gif

 

In most major orchestras, the trumpet section consists of silver-plated Bach Stradivarius trumpets, if you want to see some in action. In jazz, both lacquer and silver finish (among others) are common.

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They are full-brass; the silver is only a plating on the outside except for things like Schilke's optional Sterling Silver bell.


My own, a silver plate over brass:


Kanstul16005.jpg

While a cornet is wrapped a bit differently, and has different tubing on the inside.


cornet.gif

In most major orchestras, the trumpet section consists of silver-plated Bach Stradivarius trumpets, if you want to see some in action. In jazz, both lacquer and silver finish (among others) are common.

 

Gawd I cba to argue with a mod :p

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Tis ok, it's just that I thought it was pretty clear that I was talking about what they are actually made of, not the plateing :p

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Tis ok, it's just that I thought it was pretty clear that I was talking about what they are actually made of, not the plateing
:p

 

You were, and if you scraped that silver off, it'd be brass underneath.;)

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Poor clef reader. I'd like to get better.

I use tabs fairly often.

I use both in similar ways, mostly to figure out lines while listening to or remembering them. (Not sight reading, unless really simple).

 

In published guitar music, you may see both printed together. Clef to show you what to play, tab fills in more details of how (hammer on, pull off, harmonics, etc.) and where to play the notes. I've seen this for bass as well.

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tabs are good to look at if you have the music to know the fingre positions

but they are not much good for telling your time signature or whether the note is a whole half quarter eighth note ect

 

that is why it is good to know how to read notation and to be able to read the whole grand staff. with notation I can play the piece the way it was composed to sound

with tabs all you have is finger positions without any compositiion.

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I can read charts/bass clef backwards and forwards. I do well enough with tab for simpler songs.

 

I can read a little treble clef, but it ain't pretty. :freak:

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I can read either, but if I'm going to write something down (which is very very very rare) it is going to be my own shorthand tab which incorporates the rhythm as well.

 

I haven't had to sight read for years (4 years to be exact), so it would definitely be rusty if I tried to right now, but I am certain I could manage if I needed to.

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I started on piano in third grade so I learned to read bass clef years ago and didn't try to read tabs until a few years when I thought guitards were cool... Now that I have crossed over to the cool side, I try to do both. Depends on the song... :lol:

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