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Frances The Mute
ASturge:
I've been playing guitar for about 4 years now, and i still occasionally use tabs.
In what way am I a pussy- wanker?
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: sp2 ---My point is this. Most music is simplistic enought that you can figure out the notes pretty much on your own. This goes for pretty much ALL rock music. It's a shortcut. Frankly, I don't even think sheet music is really necessary when trying to figure out most songs. It's one thing if you're playing classical music with 5 movements that lasts half an hour a piece. But a 3 or 4 riff song? Please.
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I can get the odd thing by ear now, but tabs are still a huge help. You have to have been playing for quite some time to figure out anything, as you have to know pretty much every note, basic chord (majors, minors, sevenths and fifths) and scale as an instinctual response. Plus, it does depend on what music you listen to. Looking at my favourite bands, Therion have three guitarists (not to mention the bassist, a couple of balalaika players and a whole bloody orchestra), Skyclad flourish on doing trade-off solos between guitar and fiddle, and so on. Even the simplest music I listen to regularly, black metal, can actually be pretty hard to work out by ear because of the distortion and the tremolo picking techniques.
For all your elitism, I would probably have given up guitar already without tabs, as they allowed me to be able to hammer out a few familiar riffs and tunes within weeks of starting out, without which I would have almost certainly got piss bored of the chord shapes, scales, progressions and 12 bar blues that were all the earliest lessons in my guitar book consisted of.
blindsuperhero:
--- Quote from: Johnny C ---For harmonic tuning purposes, you know.
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But... when you play harmonics, you don't use the frets
rudeboy:
--- Quote from: Conatonc ---The fact that you seem to think that this is all that The Mars Volta is doing shows that you have written the band off without bothering to really listen to them.
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that my friend is a complete bullshit speculation. i am forced to listen to it everytime i ride in the car with my friend jess. if anything that's all she plays.
edit: and if it's so easy to pick out the bass then let's see you fucking tab it out, i'm one to think tabs are a last resort, but to you it's just an asshat that doesn't know shit about who you're talking about but yet continues to talk like you know what process i took . . . douscheclown
Kai:
Hey, no need to be calling each other Douchebags or assclowns. Flame Wars aren't cool.
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