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tonefight Diamond Member
Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 1409 Location: Ebensburg
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Posted: Wednesday Dec 26, 2012 |
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What kinda apps for mobile devices is everyone using? We recently moved and may not get regular internet. I occasionally use tabs when I'm feelin lazy and like to get lyric/ cord sheets for fake book kinda use. _________________ Don't bitch to me about the economy while you're still buying Chinese products. |
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Lowender Gold Member
Joined: 15 Mar 2012 Posts: 117 Location: West of Johnstown Near 22
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Jasaoke Platinum Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 504 Location: Altoona
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Posted: Thursday Dec 27, 2012 |
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Tabs?!?!? Aaaahhhh!?!?!
Whu?? Tabs?? Noooo. Aaaaaagghh, tabs!!!
Seriously, looking for chords online really helped with my ear training. I never found a decent, reliable source for chords. Too many tin-eared fools posting junk online. Just listen. |
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tonefight Diamond Member
Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 1409 Location: Ebensburg
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Posted: Friday Dec 28, 2012 |
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Jasaoke wrote: | Tabs?!?!? Aaaahhhh!?!?!
Whu?? Tabs?? Noooo. Aaaaaagghh, tabs!!!
Seriously, looking for chords online really helped with my ear training. I never found a decent, reliable source for chords. Too many tin-eared fools posting junk online. Just listen. |
Lol, i hear ya. I spent plenty of time rewinding cassette tapes to learn songs by ear in the past so its not that I can't but sometimes its just too easy to cheat and I'm not ashamed at all to do it. You are correct that alot of it is wrong but it still saves time. Since I can usually pick out the wrong parts quik enough and make corrections it is still a time saver especially if something is a little out of style for me. I like the lyric/ cord stuff cause its nice to throw a little binder together of stuff you don't regularly do to make a "fake book" for requests and stuff.............. Besides why am I defending myself to you when you use computer monitors to guide you through a song ? Lol _________________ Don't bitch to me about the economy while you're still buying Chinese products. |
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Jasaoke Platinum Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2010 Posts: 504 Location: Altoona
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Posted: Friday Dec 28, 2012 |
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hehehe, yeah, we use chord/lyrics. But the vast majority of them are our own arrangements. For more complex songs, I'll sometimes look around, but it always reminds me why I don't. There IS a cutoff point: it seems that the idiots don't really try to chord out difficult songs all that much.
I have found some tabs that actually work. Usually these were first transcribed into traditional notation, then tabbed. But they seem to be the exception, not the rule. And every time I try to use a tab, I feel like a little part of my musicianship dies.
We keep talking about making the kBand app commercially available, but I'm not part of the IT department, so it's out of my hands. |
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StumbleFingers Gold Member
Joined: 26 Apr 2012 Posts: 311 Location: Altoona
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Posted: Friday Dec 28, 2012 |
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Here are two I'm familiar with:
Ultimate Guitar Tab Pro - Cheap, nice interface, frequent updates, big selection of tabs. The quality of the tabs is all over the map and you can't edit them, so it's kind of a crapshoot.
Agile Partners TabToolkit - Great interface, supports Powertab, Guitar Pro, and PDF uploads. Being able to upload your own tabs is the killer feature here. I tweak tabs a lot, not just to fix errors but to change fingerings or throw in some of my own licks.
My 2 cents on the tab/no tab debate is that tabs are great because they really capture the physical act of playing the guitar. A tab can show a lot of little nuances. For example, it'd be hard to translate Jeff Beck's style into staff. And fingerings are all important on guitar.
Tabs are no substitute for really knowing and understanding music, of course. You can tell in an instant when a player is just mechanically reproducing a tab but doesn't really "get" the music. _________________ Back in black, I need a snack... |
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Colton Diamond Member
Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 1977 Location: Almost level with the ground.
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Posted: Friday Dec 28, 2012 |
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I've been using GuitarPro since i started.... _________________ Laugh if you want to, really is kinda funny, 'cause the world is a car and you're the crash test dummy. |
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