Saying that, if you're in a tribute act, you may get a hard time if you don't get stuff exact. Clarky has warned me about this if you're covering prog rock. You may get some anal beard who will take get pleasure in telling you that you've dropped a note here, and Fripp wouldn't have played it like that there.
"You do things your way and you put your life in God's hands. You do things someone else's way and you take your life in your own hands." Confucius
No, I agree whole heartedly with you.Indeed, the closer to the original you try to get the more noticeable mistakes are.Originally Posted by ChrisJordan
Breeding mammals with insects is my personal bugbear.
Yes indeed. And thus my attempting at learning Little Wing from a tab, although a really good piece of notation, never meets the recordings I have, because I don't appear to have 'the one' that the author used, and Jimi never seemed to play it exactly the same ever. :-)
However, maybe that goes in favour of tab books... if they're not completely accurate, then who cares right? I guess my desire for decent tab books are to work through them improving my technique as I go. So I guess accuracy isn't the most important thing, more like well written tab that stretches my playing. Just looking to learn from the wisdom of others that have used some books and thought 'i learnt a lot from that one'.
Fair point.
Back in the day, I learned a lot from these:
My name's Pauline and I'm a trollaholic.
Could do a lot worse than this one. Accurate, and one hell of an education.
I do have "The best of Victor Wooten".... Transcribed by Victor Wooten.
its brilliant. And fekking impossible!
The Reverend Lord Henry was not one of those new-fangled parsons who carry the principles of their vocation uncomfortably into private life.
Oooh, I didn't know you were a fan, too! How much of it did you manage?
My list is very similar, more Metallica and less G'n'R, though.
Hah! I downloaded a GuitarPro file of You Can't Hold No Groove from Ultimate Guitar just to oggle at. It makes me laugh, mostly at myself, because I just can't get the double-thumbing going.
Therein lies the problem with some "authentic" tab: even if it were really accurate (it seldom, if ever is), even most decent players would really struggle to play it because the original artist's personal style is so idiosyncratically developed.
Pauline's example is an excellent one: there are so many mistakes in the tab for the Pornografitti book that a youthful Adrian Clark decided he could do a better job, which launched his career as a professional transcriber.
I still feel eons away from nailing the main riff to He-Man Woman Hater, twenty years after my first attempt.
All I can do is look at Nuno's size and agree with Gollum: "Tricksy Hobbitses!"
I can do the first page of 'Classical Thump' and then my brain tries to kill itself!
The Reverend Lord Henry was not one of those new-fangled parsons who carry the principles of their vocation uncomfortably into private life.
Probably the same anal bea(r)ds who inhabit classical music concerts. I remember idiots sitting in a Roger Woodward Beethoven piano sonata cycle concert who would tut-tut at any missed or differing notes. They knew it was a missed note because they're sitting there with the freaking score open in front of them; Woodward of course was playing from memory.
Neil
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