Can someone help me tab this?

DrSatan · #1 02-08-2011, 09:16 PM

Hi, I haven't posted in a long while but I need help tabbing this song because I am a very poor sight-reader but in my college jazz band anyhow. Could someone post these (its only like 20 or so bars of single notes) in basic guitar tab? I would be so happy and it would really help me out. I am going to work on sight-reading this summer, I have just been stubborn in the past.

Bars 52-54 and last 4 bars.

The madness they're making me play with a flute aka bars 72-83.

First 3 bars.

Bars 163-165 and last 3 bars.

Also, what is the best way to learn? I tried to read a new song every day in the Real Book, which worked decently, but I ended up stopping for some reason...(laziness perhaps)

Thanks a lot!

Mick

mr. beaumont · #2 02-08-2011, 10:04 PM

Look, I'll be straight with you--the only way you're gonna get better is to do this yourself.

Tough love bro. Every good boy does fine, face in the space, key of Bb, B's and E's are flat.

get crackin.

max_power · #3 02-08-2011, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by DrSatan

Hi, I haven't posted in a long while but I need help tabbing this song because I am a very poor sight-reader but in my college jazz band anyhow. Could someone post these (its only like 20 or so bars of single notes) in basic guitar tab? I would be so happy and it would really help me out. I am going to work on sight-reading this summer, I have just been stubborn in the past.

Not to sound rude, but...why don't you just do it yourself? Like you said, it's only 20 or so bars...just figure out the parts on your own. You don't need to be able to sight read to figure out how to do this.

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Originally Posted by DrSatan

Also, what is the best way to learn? I tried to read a new song every day in the Real Book, which worked decently, but I ended up stopping for some reason...(laziness perhaps)

Going through the real book and sight reading easier tunes is a great way to learn. You could buy a book that teaches you how to sight read on guitar, which might help. However, this won't make you a good sight reader, it will just mean that you know how to go about doing it. The only way to get better at sight reading is to practice it a lot. Laziness will not get you far when it comes to sight reading.

Check out this thread: http://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/getti...beginners.html

It lists all of the tunes in the real book that are "easy" to sight read. Try making your way through this list, sight reading at least a couple of tunes a day. By the time you get to the bottom of the list you'll be much improved. Good luck!

DrSatan · #4 02-08-2011, 11:54 PM

lol damn i was hoping you guys wouldn't say no. i have about 6 or so bars left. took me almost a full hour to tab out those other bars...

didn't want to tab it myself because i am a neuroscience/pre-med major on the football team and 2 jazz bands haha. busy

GodinFan · #5 02-09-2011, 05:56 AM

The tab isn't going to help you get better at reading. You'd be better off laboriously working out the fingering phrase by phrase. Even if you memorize it but look at the notation while playing it you'll be better off.

mr. beaumont · #6 02-09-2011, 09:18 AM

DrSatan, you have a lot of pots on the proverbial stove!

I guess you have to ask yourself where you hope to go with your knowledge in playing jazz. I've used this metaphor elsewhere before, I find it very fitting with your screenname.

Jazz is like Satanism. Folks dabble, and nothing comes of it...if you really want to reap the benefits, you gotta go all in.

(And this is lighthearted people, I'm not plugging Satanism--or dissing it. Please don't send me all the "Have You Been Saved?" lit like last time...)

GodinFan · #7 02-09-2011, 09:33 AM

If it helps, the three bars on p.4 sit very nicely using Jimmy Bruno's Fingering #3 in Bb. Put your first finger on the 10th fret of the low E string, and all of the other notes are just waiting there under your fingers.

BigDaddyLoveHandles · #8 02-09-2011, 10:46 AM

TAB is the Devil's toothbrush, DrSatan!

monk · #9 02-09-2011, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

Jazz is like Satanism. Folks dabble, and nothing comes of it...if you really want to reap the benefits, you gotta go all in.

(And this is lighthearted people, I'm not plugging Satanism--or dissing it. Please don't send me all the "Have You Been Saved?" lit like last time...)

If Christians f**k up and then go Hell when they die, then if Satanists f**k up, do they go to Heaven when they die?

P.S. Do your own TAB or be prepared to pay somebody to do it. That's a time consuming job. Reading it, figuring out a good fingering, writing it down legibly. It's better to just learn to read.

M-ster · #10 02-09-2011, 12:24 PM

If I write out the tab for you, can you read the rhythms well enough to interpret the tab?

mr. beaumont · #11 02-09-2011, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by monk

if Satanists f**k up, do they go to Heaven when they die?

Nah, rural Arkansas, I've been told. Just as bad for them.

JohnW400 · #12 02-09-2011, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

DrSatan, you have a lot of pots on the proverbial stove!

I guess you have to ask yourself where you hope to go with your knowledge in playing jazz. I've used this metaphor elsewhere before, I find it very fitting with your screenname.

Jazz is like Satanism. Folks dabble, and nothing comes of it...if you really want to reap the benefits, you gotta go all in.

(And this is lighthearted people, I'm not plugging Satanism--or dissing it. Please don't send me all the "Have You Been Saved?" lit like last time...)

Remember the old saying:

Jesus Saves, Moses Invests

DrSatan · #13 02-10-2011, 11:52 AM

I finished it the other night and am just trying to memorize it now haha

djangoles · #14 02-10-2011, 07:02 PM

this might help....etudes are broken into 2-5 bar rhythmic motifs, then applied to melodies with basic changes notated.

Amazon.com: Rhythms Complete (Treble Clef): Charles Colin, Bugs Bower: Books

JakeAcci · #15 02-11-2011, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by DrSatan

lol damn i was hoping you guys wouldn't say no. i have about 6 or so bars left. took me almost a full hour to tab out those other bars...

This stuff takes time. One hour on anything is nothing. I'll post soon (probably within a month or two) about my latest sight reading project - it has taken me probably a year and a half! (That is, trying to do about 20 minutes a day)

But seriously, anything worth working for often takes more than a few hours...