Subj : Tab for Concrete Blonde: Joey
To   : LaRRy LaGoMoRpH
From : Khelair
Date : Thu Sep 25 2014 09:23 pm

  Re: Tab for Concrete Blonde: Joey
  By: LaRRy LaGoMoRpH to Khelair on Wed Sep 24 2014 12:13:09

 > Looked that song up online, listened and looked at the chords.  That's not
 > really a song you should use tab for generally speaking, because it's not
 > really riff heavy.  It looks like it's a basic chord progression that goes
 > G-Em-C-D for most of the song, there are many ways to play that but there's
 > nothing revolutionary about the guitar part relative to those chords that would
 > make tablature a good point of reference.

	Yeah, when I started looking at the tab for it (once I actually found
some), I started realizing I was probably biting off a bit more than I can chew
at this point.  I mean, I don't remember _any_ chords.  The only thing that I
really remember off the top of my head are the intros to 2 Metallica songs and
a little tiny bit of one of Nirvana's songs.  As far as chords in general?  I
started working on them a bit, but I never got to the point where I was able to
strum separated strings correctly.  So that one is pretty much out of my range
for now, I think.

 > While tablature might seem like a good alternative to reading music, learning
 > what chord symbols mean for major and minor chords is the way to remember and
 > learn songs.  When a guitarist plays a song they don't recall every single
 > fret number, they use short cuts.  Learning how to recall chords doesn't
 > require learning how to read music and is my recommendation.  You're probably
 > doing searches for songs online "song name tablature"... I'd recommend
 > augmenting that or replacing it with "song name chords and lyrics".  Whenever I
 > see tablature only available for a song, I usually wind up breaking it back
 > down in my head into a chord structure, otherwise I wouldn't be able to
 > remember it.

	Actually no, I totally understand what you mean here.  I used to know how
to read music, back when I was actually learning things the right way with my 
clarinet.  Unfortunately I've totally lost that.  Right now I'm thinking that I'm
going to go back to it, though.  I mean I need lessons on the whole damn shpiel
as far as what I'm working with right now, too, so I might as well pick that up
at the same time.  There's far too much important information that isn't encoded
in the tablature.  I was just kind of looking at that hoping to find enough music
that interested me to be able to get in some serious practice hours just doing
that...  I'm starting to think, though, that that's not really the practice that
I need if I'm going to work towards anything with proper technique or a chance
of giving me a well-rounded education on the instrument.
	So yeah, I'll probably be going back to school on all of it real soon
here.  :)  Tab is useless without already remembering the song well.
	Thank you for the input on the searches and everything, though.  I'll
give that a shot, but I'm gonna pull up a few lessons for the dudes (and
dudettes, of course) who know nothing about friggin' music any more, first. ;)


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