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Location: Flahdaw | When was the last time you PAID for song tabs or a music book? Remember buying a whole music book for 20 bucks because you wanted to learn 2 songs? |
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Location: Vernon CT | Approx 4 years ago, Between Chordie and My own improvement on figuring the Easier ones out. I sold the 30 I had for $100 1 shot! Don't miss them at all |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Within the last month. Our local used book store has a decent stock of music books. I picked up a moderately used Billy Joel book for $2.50 |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Never. I have always thought the most fun part of playing guitar was figuring out the songs. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Two-and-a-half Years Ago... I got a bunch of books from Portland Music before I had a computer.
Now I get most of my quick tab/chords from the net, even though I have them in books on a shelf.
It's quicker.
BTW- Portland Music on SW 10th was dedicated to sheet music of all kinds.
Big Bands, Broadway Shows, Musicals... Violin, Piano, Clarinet...
Needless to say, They are Gone now. :(
I liked that place. Picks, VHS tapes, Tuners, Lessons! And real nice people. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by CanterburyStrings:
Never. I have always thought the most fun part of playing guitar was figuring out the songs. Although self taught, I could usually figure out the songs myself without music. But remember spending weeks trying to figure out a damn song, then running across the music and seeing it is played in an alternate tuning. I've come up with some very creative, but completely wrong, ways of playing some songs. It keeps it fun, though. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Seems like ever time I walk into a music store or Barnes & Noble... :( |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Christmas. I sort of bought the Complete Clapton. I saw it at GC, told my wife the name and price. I assume she got it there. Not long before that, I bought Matt's instruction book. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Darkbar, I guess that's one of the reasons I'd rather figure them out for myself. The challenge, plus it is MY arrangement. Being a poor singer, I always had to put the melody in there too to make it sound like the song. It taught me how to really play guitar. |
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Location: Portland, OR | I have quite a collection of books.. I love using the tab websites, but when I really love a song or album, and want an accurate tab, I just get the book. In actuality though, I love just picking up the random song off of a tab site.. I probably use the web 85-90% of the time, and on those special occassions for a really good album, then I break out the bucks for the book.. Some books I can think of off top of my head include Red Hot Chilli Peppers - blood sugar sex magic, Metallica - that metallica album, A few smashing pumpkins albums, A beck album that had alternate tunings that web tabs never got right, James Taylor greatest hits.. |
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Location: Alagoas, Brazil | just after Christmas:
# 1 of: Jazz Favorites for Solo Guitar: Chord Melody Arrangements in Standard Notation and Tab
Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
# 1 of: Jazz Standards for Solo Guitar
Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
# 1 of: Chord-Melody Guitar: A Guide to Combining Chords and Melody to Create Solo Arrangements in Jazz and Pop Styles (Musicians Institute: Private Lessons)
Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
# 1 of: Jazz Classics for Solo Guitar: Chord Melody Arrangements with Tab
Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
# 1 of: Building a Jazz Chord Solo: A Guitarist's Guide to the Art of Chord Melody Playing
Sold by: Amazon.com, LLC
# 1 of: Mel Bay Chord Melody Solos for Guitar (Book/CD Set)
and no, these haven't arrived yet. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | About 10 months ago, I bought 4 DVDs from the LickLibrary range - Fretboard Navigator 1 & 2 and 'Guitar Aerobics' beginner & intermediate.
In 10 months, I've only looked at the first 10 minutes of beginner aerobics. Just don't seem to get the time to get the TV and DVD player to myself.
I also recently bought a lesson on line for 'Never Going Back Again.' It cost me about 3 bucks, but it got me playing a song I've been trying to learn for a decade. I don't play it very good, but that's my fault, not the instructor's.
I've also picked up an awful lot of 'pointers' from YouToob. |
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Location: East Tennessee | A couple of years ago. I picked up two songbooks in TAB format.
Now I try and find online. There are some sites you might have to pay a fee and others are free.
Also some of the TABs aren't that accurate. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | About 2 years ago I bought the song tabs for "Stairway To Heaven" so I could play it at all the Guitar Centers and annoy everyone. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | :D :D |
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Location: PDX | Last week. Picked up another two volumes of John Knowles Fingerstyle Quarterly. I've been a subscriber for a few years but there's a slew of back issues i pick up a bit at time.
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Location: Round Rock, TX | I have a few, but they're ones that were either left by friends or were outright gifts (my favorite of those is The Beatles Complete Scores). But I'm about to buy some Fake books with songs from the 30's - 50's to use in playing in Retirement/Nursing homes. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Maybe 7-8 years ago, got a Eagles book to learn a few tunes.
Now I try to find the chords online for free. usually can.
I was never good at figuring things out. After several years of classes and learning some theory it's easier cause you know where it should go to for the changes. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | A few weeks ago; treated myself to "Alternate Tuning Chord Dictionary: A Complete Reference to Over 7,000 Chords."
Now I can be mediocre in every tuning known to man..... ;) :D
--Karen |
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| Last March - Matt Smith's Chop Shop. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by G8r:
Matt Smith's Chop Shop. Ditto... some time last year. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I bought one from as gift for nefew at Christmas |
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| Paid? Now I just figure it out by ear, I essentially always did but it wasn't as easy when I was a kid just starting. So I'd just go to music store, find a book with the song that had me stumped, go to the offending part and memorize it, put the book back in the rack and my work there was done. |
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Location: closely held secret | I think the last time I bought music was for the White Album because I couldn't figure out the bridge for "Julia"... about 35 years ago? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by G8r:
Last March - Matt Smith's Chop Shop. Me, too. |
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Location: Citizen of the Galaxy | Like Beal, I find most of what I need online. I will, occassionally, buy instructional dvd's (Tony Rice, James Burton, Buster B. Jones) and sometimes, actually learn stuff off of them. Mostly, they are just fun to watch..... |
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Location: Seattle | Guitar TAB White pages Vol 1, 2, 3....+/- 450 guitar standard tabs with music, tunings, and multiple parts.... Speeds up my development time |
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