[musictlk] reading tabs

[Michael]

Hi Robert
Have you ever looked at the web page musicbyear.com?  Bill Brown who 
developed this site teaches an assortment of instruments, including bass 
guitar, via tape or download and teaches to play by ear.  He has a site 
called guitarbyear.com also and there are probably two hundred songs listed 
there in various genre, maybe more.  The Library of Congress has most of 
these lessons and songs through the NLS.  They are free if you subscribe to 
this.  I have checked out several of his guitar tapes, particularly for jazz 
guitar.   He does a good job.

Incidentally Ive not found jaws to be much help when reading tabs.  However 
I have had success when the chord name is written above the tab which does 
occur some of the time.  I can then figure out what I need from that.  I 
play fingerstyle and chord shapes are critical.

There is another site called talkingtabs.com  that you should take a look 
at.  This is not free and the NLS does not carry these listings, but the 
prices are not prohibitive if you are trying to get a complete song together 
for your group.  Each song costs around thirteen dollars.

Hope this helps.
Michael----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert j" <robertjmoore at embarqmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:49 PM
Subject: [musictlk] reading tabs


> Hi
> I may have asked this question before but now I have a little bit better
> concept of tabs.
> Does any one know if there is a practicle way to read tabliture using JAWS
> and if so how would one go about that.
> If I could find a way to read Tabs with JAWS it would be a huge help.
> any other ideas for learning bass without paying for expensive lessons 
> would
> be appreciated.
> I have put a band together and I want to shorten the learning curve for
> putting songs together.
> I can learn by ear but am not nearly as good at that as I would like to be
> so I just need a little help to fill in the blanks some times.
> I have learned the 12 bar blues which for what I am going to be playing is
> quite helpfull.
> what I can't figure out note for note I can kind of fake it, at least to 
> get
> started.
> thanks
> Robert
>
>
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