To Anyone Who Plays An Instrument
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Topic: To Anyone Who Plays An Instrument
Posted By: GPFR
Subject: To Anyone Who Plays An Instrument
Date Posted: January 10 2006 at 20:51
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When you listen to a song, and you just NEED to know how to play it, do
you read tabs or Music Sheets? Everyone I know uses one of these two,
except for my dad who gets everything by ear. Just Curious. I personally use tabs. ------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 10 2006 at 21:00
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I use my lovely ear! Im self taught and doesn't know any notes, tabs etc. Im a drummer, BTW! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 07:44
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I'm a drummer and i like playing by ear. I'm a self-taught. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 07:47
| I use a mixture of ear and tabs. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 08:04
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chopper wrote:Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 08:11
Tabs is 90% wronge...so i go by ears  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 08:13
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I use tabs although I try to develop a better ear.
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 08:14
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I used to play piano and guitar 20 years ago. I had 4 years of piano lessons but I'm not a very good player though. I failed my grade 2 piano exam but I passed grade 5 music theory so in theory I am a good musician. I always bought sheet music and played songs from those. I once took Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" sheet music to my piano class and after a few bars, the teacher asked me if my parents knew what kind of music I was listening to. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 08:22
Actually the song has a striking resemblance to "Oh when the saints" ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 09:24
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I can't read tabs so I need sheet music to play anything right (although I can occasionally work out bits just playing by ear) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingofbizzare/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 09:40
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You took the words out of my mouth! ------------- 
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 09:42
I used to skip that track whenever my parents are at home with me! -------------
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, well theres always the first time!Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 11:07
| Tabs and ear. |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 12:04
Notes. My ears are terrible  
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Posted By: sbrushfan
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 15:12
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I use my ears. I can't read a lick of tab. When I absolutely MUST know how a track is played, I listen to it several times to get a general idea of hte melody, then tap it out on a piano. ------------- Some world views are spacious, and some are merely spaced... |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 15:28
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5%, not more. But I agree, sometimes even "official" tabs contain obvious mistakes. So I rely on my ears, and use tabs to speed up the process of learning a song. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to:
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Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 04:06
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Well i actually spend longer time learning the songs by tabs instead of just listening to them by ear and some tabs is not in the right key even! Infact i was amusing buying a offical tab book and seeing that there was actually some tabs that was completly of...it was not baringly similar...i would only trust them tabs if they had been written by the artists themselves ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Fjuffe/?chartstyle=sideRed - [IMG - http://imagegen.last.fm/sideRed/recenttracks/Fjuffe.gif - |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 13:10
Usually i use my ears... but if i found the song too difficult to play, i go to the tabs  ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 13:15
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I combine all three. The program i use to learn songs, just like music books, contain the sheet music and the tabs. I use both to learn the song, but whenever there are error in the tab, or certain techniques or sounds used in a song, I will play by ear and get that stuff down. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: dralan
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 15:50
| Also alot of it depends on what kind of music you play and what instrument. I play alot of classical guitar and alot of the CG repertoire you have to learn to read standard notation in order to do it correctly. But when I play electric just jammin around I pretty much play by ear. If your hammering out bar chord riffs and playing Sabbath and Metallica you could get by with tabs but I personally dont like them. I would suggest learning to read music, you'll be a more well rounded musician and since it is the universal language of writing down music it is alot more accurate than tabs. |
Posted By: Peace Frog
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 15:57
I can't read music! And the only songs I know that I haven't written are by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and The White Stripes ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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Posted By: porter
Date Posted: January 13 2006 at 10:13
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I use my ears, but when I'm really in trouble I may use tabs. ------------- "my kingdom for a horse!" (W. Shakespeare, "Richard III") |
Posted By: sbrushfan
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 15:19
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To me, that takes talent. If I can't use my ears to discern a melody or harmony (which is, incidentally, how I write most of my songs), I'm f**ked. ------------- Some world views are spacious, and some are merely spaced... |