Free Mr. Big Live transcribed

[4stringer77]

http://s1151.photobucket.com/albums/o632/4stringer77/?albumview=slideshow

[dadagoboi]

Nice!

[the mojo hobo]

Nice, but where are the little lines with numbers that tell you where to put your fingers?

[4stringer77]

Tab will only limit your abilities in the long run. Music notation is the most efficient way to convey how to play something, particularly when it comes to rhythms. Learning to read music may seem hard, but the benefit justifies the effort.

[Dave W]

I can't even begin to figure out tab, it's counter-intuitive to me. Probably because I learned to read way back in elementary school string class. Never even heard of tab until years later.

[patman]

I prefer standard notation for bass...although I don't read as well as I should anymore.

I prefer tab for banjo...you have all kinds of tunings, and it's pretty much impossible to play w/o tab(for me).

[Pilgrim]

I can't even begin to figure out tab, it's counter-intuitive to me. Probably because I learned to read way back in elementary school string class. Never even heard of tab until years later.

My experience exactly.  When I returned to playing music in the late 90's, I was quite surprised to learn that many musicians have never learned to read music.  Tab is a poor substitute IMO. I think that I struggle with tab because I have a trained response to interpret the numbers as notes.

In that Mr Big transcription - it may be a lack or artistry on my part, but I'd probably take all that stuff that's on high frets on the G string and move it down an octave.

[nofi]

tab is a mystery to me as well.

[dadagoboi]

In that Mr Big transcription - it may be a lack or artistry on my part, but I'd probably take all that stuff that's on high frets on the G string and move it down an octave.

Works for me.

[uwe]

I can read tab ok (not that I ever really need to, I'm pretty good at picking out a bass part by ear by now), but I wish I could read notes. I certainly had no talent for it, people who started with  me taking lessons from my (jazz inspired) bass teacher were much quicker on the ball. I tried for about two years and never really got to the point where I could play something at a normal speed in eights fluidly (or by the time I could I had actually learned it by heart and wasn't reading anymore). Probably has to do with the fact that I'm hardly numerate. Tab is primitive but descriptive, it's like drawing a car as a symbol rather than writing "car" in letters.

If I could sight-read I would probably play more classical pieces just for the heck of it. To learn Dee Dee Ramone bass lines it is of kinda limited use ...

[4stringer77]

I'll work on posting some tab for Uwe.

[Highlander]

I recently worked in a tape storage site and had my hands on the master tape; in fact I pretty much found all of there tapes, including the twenty tracks recorded for Free Live 

[leftybass]

I don't read music, used to in the 70s when I played trumpet in Junior High. I use tab for figuring out something I can't by ear.

[4stringer77]

Woah! You saw the masters HERBIE? That's brilliant. Hope you had a chance to listen to them. Bet it sounds cooler without the same overdubbed applause before each track. Also, I served up a new transcription for ya Lefty, this time with Tab. Blood of the Sun from the Mountain album by Leslie West.

[Highlander]

No chance of listening; they are in a secure storage depot with a few other million reels - I tried to find the pics I took but presently mislaid - the names Ken or Kenny but that varies according to how annoying I am being; the "name" also changes annually and relates to the age I feel at the time...

Is the passing resemblance to your avatar to a certain Mr P entirely coincidental...?