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T. Hutch
14 posts
Jul 25, 2008
10:45 AM
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Hey, What be shakin` besides da leaves in da trees.....
So, we was kickin` around the topic of the tab sheets and the "Amazing Slowdowner" and other tools, techniques and practices to best avail us Blues Players the advantage of learning how to play new riffs, cuts, songs and peices of the licks we have been listening to.
At www.notation.com is a peice of downloadable software that incorporates the princables of the slowdowner and prints you up a tab sheet to boot.
Maybe you can check it out..let me know what you think or if you beleive, we, as players, should, would or could?
..Knowin` dem would`nt be shakin` if`in it was`nt fer da breeze.........Later
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Bobbyred16
15 posts
Jul 25, 2008
12:37 PM
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Unless your going to play in an orchestral group there is no need for sheet music. It's the blues man, it's all about expression & improvisation. We don't need no stinkin' tabs or sheet music. Your ears should be your tab and your soul should be your sheet music. Of course you need to practice your technique (bending, TBlocking, etc...) and some software is good for that like the bendometer, but nothing beats putting on a CD and breaking down a riff or song with your ear. And I also think that one shouldn't copy exactly what your trying to learn verbatim either, you can steal it, but make it your own. Learn a new riff off a CD then hit the jam tracks and make it work in your playing. Maybe I am old school, but I know that if I was to show up at a jam with a tab sheet or a notated music page I'd get laughed off the stage. In the blues somebody calls out a key the drummer counts off four and you're either ready or your not. Listen everyone learns by a different means, but just wanted to throw in my 2 cents.
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superchucker77
58 posts
Jul 25, 2008
12:48 PM
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Amen to that, Bobby.
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bluzlvr
44 posts
Jul 25, 2008
1:28 PM
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I second Superchucker's amen.
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oldwailer
130 posts
Jul 25, 2008
9:42 PM
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Yes, I do agree that the best and most fun thing to do is to break it down by ear--I have learned a lot from Eric Clapton records--which frequently don't have any harp on them--just by jamming along and figuring things out.
However, I am also not adverse to using any method I can to gather up my tools--I study Adam's lessons, for example--where there is volumes of stuff to learn--and I gather lessons and tools as I can--things that work for me.
I think we are very fortunate to have the availability of these tools these days--take this from one who learned country blues on the guitar before the internet existed.
Now, if I want to learn a new piece, the first thing I look for is a tab in guitar pro format--I could still do it by ear--but if the work has already been done--why work so hard?
The problem I see with this software that Hutch has mentioned here is that it uses the midi format. I had some experience with some software a while back that I don't recall the name of--I found that it is pretty well impossible to find anything in midi format that I would even want a tab for. I also didn't find a good, inexpensive way to convert MP3 files to midi.
If it gets updated to read the MP3 format and give me back a good tab (a GOOD tab would have to be in parts--not just harp and guitar and drums all mashed together)and do the slow downer thing as well, I might get in line to own it! If it would do the output in Guitar Pro Format--I would get a job selling it on commission!
Last Edited by on Jul 25, 2008 9:44 PM
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