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Location: 6 String Ranch | I can't read music. I can translate the notes with enough time but forget the time signatures. Tab is better but I'm still very slow so I don't do it often. Much easier to have someone show you the lick. |
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Location: SoCal | I've learned fingerpicking tunes with tab, but it's literally one bar at a time. Over the course of a few years, I learned Jerry Reed's The Claw that way. Then it's taken me 10 years to get it up to speed. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I seem to have a lot more in common with W2, besides the obvious good looks and charming personality!
Most of what I have learned came from being around others and instructional videos (plagarism saves time). Then there's the old favorite of playing the LP over and over again until its the absolute last song anyone in the house wants to hear you play!
I know about sheet music and can painfully decipher Tab. I'm a lot better now at Key recognition and transposing. Mainly due to playing a Papoose and now the Longneck.
Necessity can be a mother... |
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Location: Central Florida | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Chet's father was a voice teacher and his older brother Jim played guitar with the Les Paul Trio. He could read and stated so in interviews.... I couldn't have told you whether he read or not. I just think that's a great line, regardless. |
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Location: Reno, NV | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Be careful of that "Wish You Were Here" thing, Jason...
I wanted to learn that for a long time.
Tried to figure it out often.
I finally looked it up, and figured it out.
So now, when I pick-up a guitar, and my brain draws a blank,
I automatically start to play that.
Probably pisses my neighbors off.
DEE, deedle-dir-durr, dee-dee-DEE-doughrn... :mad: LOL :D
That exactly what I do too. |
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Location: Reno, NV | Originally posted by Yak:
Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Be careful of that "Wish You Were Here" thing, Jason...
I wanted to learn that for a long time.
Tried to figure it out often.
I finally looked it up, and figured it out.
So now, when I pick-up a guitar, and my brain draws a blank,
I automatically start to play that.
Probably pisses my neighbors off.
DEE, deedle-dir-durr, dee-dee-DEE-doughrn... :mad: LOL :D
That's exactly what I do too. |
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Location: CA | WAtch this. It's to the point and totally hysterical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOAY-zURlGA |
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Location: CA | Watch this. To the point and totally hysterical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOAY-zURlGA |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Thank You! Thank You! and Thank You! |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Jason_S:
i was just wondering if anyone else cant ready ANY music at all or if im the odd one in the bunch....jason What's music? Oh you mean those funny looking circles and lines on the paper. :confused: |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I wouldn't say that I was great at reading music, but I can fake it well enough that real musicians believe I can. I've been reading vocal scores for 25 years, so I tend to hum it to myself, then play what I hear. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | It`s not difficult to read music,.....U just have to learn how....A B C D E F G.....see , there`s nothing to it...now,how to get the bar-owner to shell out ...that`s the trick :)
Vic :cool: |
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Location: PDX | This will help get you started reading music. Or convince you it's not worth the trouble.
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | WOW !!.....I knew that it was a good decision not to learn the SAX... :)
Thanks for sharing
Vic :cool: |
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Location: Flushing, MI | I can read VERY slowly. But I don't use it at all. I took up the trombone in Jr. High school, and learned to read for that pretty good. However, it's in the bass clef, and I'd already been playing the guitar by ear since I was about 5, and I never had the patience to try to learn to read for the guitar. It's just so much quicker by ear for me. I'm real slow with tabulature too.
I have a buddy that can sight read like no one that I've ever seen. He writes charts for a whole orchestra without an instrument available. He can just look at a chart and hear it in his head. He's also a monster pianist, mandolinist, bassist, guitarist, and I even used him on drums on a couple of gigs. |
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can anyone else here not read music?
