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Topic: Help with unfamiliar tab style |
Jeff Metz Jr.
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York, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 12 Nov 2013 10:06 pm |
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I have a bunch of new herb steiner tass and instead of putting pedal or levers after the strings to pick he has sharp symbols (#) and still has a B after some notes. I think I may understand what he's doing but it makes reading the tab awful. Any tips our explanations?
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Howard Parker
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Maryland
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Posted 12 Nov 2013 10:50 pm
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I seem to recall that Herb explains his tab signs in the first pages of each booklet.
I like his stuff and do not find it at all confusing. fwiw.
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Jeff Metz Jr.
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York, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 12 Nov 2013 11:02 pm
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Howard you are correct! I have old printed material that a friend gave me a while back. I did locate the copedent page was. It is how I thought it would be. It does make sense for Different copedents.
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Marco Schouten
From:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Posted 13 Nov 2013 9:20 am
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I have one of Herb's books. You'll get used to it real soon, and like you said: it doesn't matter how your setup is.
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 13 Nov 2013 12:35 pm
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You probably figured it out already, but when some one uses the sharp and flat symbols after the fret number, it means, for example, one sharp is a half tone raise, two sharps is a whole tone raise, etc...
If you have trouble remembering which pedal gives you those changes, you can always figure out what pedal does those changes, and write RKR, LKL, etc under the tabs where you can see them and know what pedal to press. After a while, you won't need to do that.
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 13 Nov 2013 5:46 pm
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Jeff and everyone
You are all correct. My tab is a variation on the "Musymtab" developed by Jimmy Crawford for his lesson material.
The benefits of this system are two-fold: First, it doesn't matter where you have the changes, pedal or lever. Whatever you have on your guitar that accomplishes the musical task at hand is correct.
Secondly, it teaches the player what the pedal/lever is actually accomplishing on the guitar. Naming the pedal/lever by a letter tells the player nothing about what occurs when he uses it.
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Jeff Metz Jr.
From:
York, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2013 9:20 pm
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Thanks Herb! Glad you could chime in! I like that it teaches while your learning ( odd way to put it). 2 fold was better! Haha
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 13 Nov 2013 10:35 pm
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While the subject is running, Herb, kudos for using this approach- Jimmy was right on the money, and so are you- to learn the actual musical function of pedals and levers may be as important as any of the licks or phrases. Way to go!
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