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Mike Ester Member From: New Braunfels, Texas, USA |
posted 15 July 2006 02:06 PM
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John, this is very good of you to offer this. Thank you. |
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Stephan Miller Member From: Silver Spring, Maryland, USA |
posted 15 July 2006 03:11 PM
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John, I've been scrolling through your book-- what a wealth of material clearly explained. Thanks so much for offering up the results of your diligence. --Steve |
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John McGann Member From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
posted 24 July 2006 07:36 AM
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Thanks for your kind comments! ------------------ |
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Mike Wheeler Member From: Columbus, Ohio, USA |
posted 25 July 2006 04:21 PM
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John, I, too, would like to thank you for such a wonderful gift. I have struggled with notation for many years because the lack of a good foundation in my early years. It has caused me much difficulty in understanding chord structures and complex intervals. I very well play by ear and, given enough time, can figure things out...but what a hinderance that is!! Takes a lot of the fun out of playing...and tab doesn't fill this void. IMHO, tab is most benificial to a player who already knows the tune well from memory, but hasn't figured out how the original artist did what he/she did and where. I see it as a study/research tool. Again, thanks for providing such a useful tool for us hackers to learn from. |
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John McGann Member From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
posted 06 August 2006 10:51 AM
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John McGann Member From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
posted 21 September 2006 06:15 AM
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^%! |
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David Mason Member From: Cambridge, MD, USA |
posted 21 September 2006 07:00 AM
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Thnx Jhn! |
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John McGann Member From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
posted 21 September 2006 07:07 AM
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quote: The problem is that tab is not reliable in terms of where something was played...when you relate to a passage as notes rather than a single position, you get more mileage out of the musical idea, get to know the instrument better. Published tab is the transcriber's interpretation of where something was played and not neccessarily the gospel truth- as I mentioned many posts ago regarding some Django books-the pitches are right but the tab is wrong in terms of how the Gypsies approach technique (for example, never switching strings with an upstroke). Lloyd Green advises being able to play anything on pedal steel in 3 or 4 places. Just because so-and-so writes a certain tab position when transcribing so-and-so #2's playing, doesn't mean it was played where so-and-so tabbed it... of course, having one way to do it is way better than no way, but by doing the detective work, you gain a ton of command. ------------------ |
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Jesse Pearson Member From: San Diego , CA |
posted 21 September 2006 02:40 PM
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Blah blah blah...Ever hear of finger pattern memory? Musicians who have to play different types of gigs with different bands rely on it to remember the songs? It's like martial arts, the guys who win on the street and in the tournaments use the same approaches as a foundation first. Robert Johnson was known to learn a song and play it the same way all the time because he played so many different songs and types of music. If you do your home work as far as chords, scales, arps etc. you'll see those under your fingers even when your reading tab. And there's no law that says you can't play different positions for tab your learning if you don't agree with it. If you have 3 or 4 different ways of doing a hit, it's questionable how well your gonna do on the fly when your ass is on the line. It's the same with learning 150 different performance pieces. You'll never get it down right if you don't decide of a finger pattern memory that's gonna be the way you play the song, you'll end up sounding jerky. If you practice your theory foundations, you'll know what the tab is saying note wise and where the options lay out on the neck if you want to depart from the finger pattern memory. My first gypsi guitar book was bought in the early 80' and it's in tab and talks about sweep picking, so? It's by Ian Cruickshank who spent alot of time in Europe hanging out with all the famous gypsie musicians and he even made a documentery. Those gyspie guys can't even read music and write all their stuff in tab? |
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John McGann Member From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
posted 21 September 2006 03:46 PM
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Jesse, you're making my point. Love ya man  edited for spelling [This message was edited by John McGann on 21 September 2006 at 03:47 PM.] |
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John McGann Member From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
posted 25 November 2006 02:32 PM
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