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If the goal is simply to learn a particular song, then I would agree with you,
Miller. If the goal is to become a more complete musician with the ability to
improvise and to be able to play songs on the fly, then developing the ear
becomes important. Learning with tab is not completely detrimental to developing
the ear but I just think that learning a song without the tab is a quicker way
to develop the ear, especially with the type of songs in question, the
Pipelines, and Link Wray tunes.
Many of us probably know folks like my Mom and Mother-in-law who can play piano
very well as long as the music is in front of them. My Dad can sit down in any
room with a piano and play any request (well maybe he doesn't know too many
Metallica numbers). "I wish I could play piano like that!" is the compliment he
receives most often, even from those who can play with the sheet music.
-Marty
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From: loscobrassurf
To:
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 6:05 AM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: does anyone have any Link wray tabs?
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It seems to me that the method of getting there is less important
than just getting there. If tab workes for you than use it as one of
your methods.I could see that tab could be used to learn a difficult
riff even by someone who learns by ear. I tried it a long time ago
and it seemed slow. miller
-- In , "Marty Tippens" <mctippens@e...>
wrote:
> Good analogy, Warren. Training wheels were never a good idea. Put
the kid on the bike and let him fall on the lawn a few times. Its the
same idea with learning Link Wray by ear. Beginners will get it wrong
at first, but if they keep at it and they'll get it sooner than they
think. Also, they'll not be depending on 'training wheel' tabs the
rest of their life.
> -Marty
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: captainspringfield
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:46 PM
> Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Re: does anyone have any Link wray tabs?
>
>
> I think I'm somewhere in between a few of the viewpoints
expressed
> here. To use a really crappy analogy, I look at it like riding a
> bike. You don't just hop on a ten-speed and head for a steep hill-
-
> there has to be some sort of guide at first, like training wheels.
>
> Tabs are great for those of us who can't read music. A friend of
mine
> just bought a guitar and wanted me to show him some basic stuff.
> Since we live a few hours away from each other, the easiest thing
to
> do was tab some chord progressions, etc. out for him. He can
learn at
> his own pace, and I really don't see too much of a difference
between
> him learning a C chord or a scale off of a tab than if I showed
him,
> finger by finger, how to play it.
>
> Plus, the more you learn, the less reliant you become. I used to
> prefer full, in-depth tabs, but now I tend towards the sparse
ones--
> "A-D-E-D, solo in Am" leaves a lot more up to the person learning
> from the tab than a note-for-note transcription. I'm still not
very
> good, but that's more than what I need to be able to fake my way
> through "Louie, Louie."
>
> I'll be the first to admit there's drawbacks, though. You can
find a
> tab for the guitar solo from the New York Dolls' "Chatterbox"
online
> somewhere, but it's not going to show you how to play it with the
> attitude that Johnny Thunders originally did. Sort of like how,
to
> bastardize a quote from Spinal Tap, seeing a Dick Dale riff on
paper
> tends to understate the hugeness of it.
>
> OLGA has a few two-dozen page Neil Young tabs. I see no point in
> flawlessly learning something like "Cortez the Killer" or "Down
By
> the River" (which I don't have the memory for in the first place)
and
> in the process completely abandoning the spontaneity present in
the
> original performance, but apparently some people do.
>
> Some people also like to finger-tap and play classical music
loudly
> on electric guitar. Me, I prefer The Sonics. Tabbing's just as
> subjective, though. It works for some, it doesn't for others.
>
> Now if only someone could tab the Eddie & the Showmen version
> of "Scratch."
>
> -Warren
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