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Please check out this thread and give me some guidance on the question I asked in the last post. https://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/27701/

This is a question for Brian; suggest you PM him.

(I think it's going to depend upon the copyright applied by the outfit sending you the tab, via the magazine, not the view of this site but again that's a question probably for Brian.)

Wes
SoCal ex-pat with a snow shovel

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Brian wrote:

In general you cannot copy and distribute someone else's work without their permission. You'll have to check the fine print on the magazine, but I can't imagine a commercial magazine allowing you to do that.

Checking the "fine print" will be difficult, it's going to be in "French" and I only speak "English", hell it took me hours just to translate the magazine's page using a site I found online to place the order.

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Disregard.

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I won't post it, I don't want the site to get in trouble over "copyright infringement".

As for me, I'm an "intermediate" and "mechanical" player as opposed to an "artistic" one. I'm not a "natural" musician or very creative, my playing is "methodical". I guess it's my nature, I'm a diesel/bus mechanic and foreman by trade. Playing "by ear" is not my thing, I rely on sheet (I can "read" music) and tab but have great difficulty deciphering and transcribing solos even with a TASCAM CD-GTR-I Mk.II unit to slow down songs.

I played guitar and took lessons in the mid-late 1970's but wasn't a serious student, school, sports, work, and busted fingers/hands always got in the way (I've worked full-time blue-collar jobs since age 15) and only picked the guitar back up again as rehab for serious hand and traumatic brain injuries suffered when I was struck by a car as a pedestrian in 2008 (or was it 2006? My memory is screwed up a bit and the docs say it always will be, from the accident).

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Badger wrote:

blackheartsfan wrote:

As for me, I'm an "intermediate" and "mechanical" player as opposed to an "artistic" one. I'm not a "natural" musician or very creative,...

Same here actually. I love it but it's something I work at and the "let's write an original piece today" thing doesn't exist.

One thing for learning a song (or pieces of one) that may help instead of the TASCAM is some mixing software you can run on your computer. Do you have even something like Audacity loaded? (it's free) Quite good for that in terms of repetition when nugging out something you're trying to learn.

Thanks for the tip. I had a Chinese knock-off of Guitar Rig/Link on my desktop and it worked well for a few years but when I got an "update" from Microsoft it stopped working. When I bought a laptop five (5) years ago I tried installing it and it didn't work so I ordered a supposed "new" version last fall, again a Chinese knock-off (Ebay), even after spending hours at a time over a few days trying "fixes" and adjusting settings I couldn't get it to work so I returned it and got a refund.

Note: I know there are apps for Apple products but I don't have an I-Phone and don't intend on getting one.

Right now I have an ASUS X54H laptop and I think I'm running Windows Home Premium so if you or anyone else has any suggestions as to which software would be best for my current setup use I would appreciate the guidance.

For learning songs in addition to using the tab resources here at SurfGuitar101 I've been buying the Hal Leonard "Guitar Play Along" books w/CD's (which have the "slow-downer" feature) from Music Dispatch, purchasing individual songs from them, and picked up a number of books like "Surf Guitar", "Classic Rock Instrumentals", "Total Rock Guitar", etc. in addition to Hal Leonard Complete Guitar Method (it's 3 books in 1) for a refresher. I've visited the Ultimate Guitar website and have downloaded and printed out tab and watched and "bookmarked" some YouTube lessons in web browser folders.

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Badger wrote:

Running Audacity on Windows 7 Home Prem here; runs great. It uses memory very well, although I wouldn't recommend firing it up AFTER you've got a browser up with 10 tabs open or anything. "Price" is right and the learning curve isn't monstrous.

Thanks to a previous post by Brian I was tipped off to an instructional book by Dave Celentano called Surf Guitar. It's pretty cool; there are some technique tips, it includes a CD so that each little thing has a demo as to what it sounds like. Also some song-specific playing tips since it also includes SIX great songs by The Torquays AND their studio quality backing tracks (minus lead), as well as all the guitar parts tabbed out. Several of those were written by Duff Paulsen (member here) who proves that some drummers have more depth than hitting stuff & kicking things with their feet. They are not homegrown backing tracks, you'll be "playing along with" The Torquays. The process actually addresses some very basic & intermediate techniques that are worth having in the pocket. Pretty cool that The Torquays cooperated in that venture - lots of fun.

Just my $.02

Thanks again for the info, I'll check out Audacity and the book. I'll tell you this, I really liked and miss the Guitar Rig/Link, it was so easy, just upload the software (CD), plug the guitar into that little unit, plug THAT into a USB port and you're up and running, no amp, MIDI unit or extra cables necessary.

Now I'm off to practice while watching/listening to the returns, yes it was a landslide win tonight for my guy, now THAT'S something worth writing a song about.

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