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Topic: Moving beyond tab |
Paul Strojan
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California, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2020 5:14 pm |
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| I am looking for some advice taking the training wheels and begin playing without having to rely on tablature. |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 9 Jun 2020 5:23 pm
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| Music theory and learning to read music is the ticket. |
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 9 Jun 2020 5:36 pm
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Develop your ears. Play along with records, YouTube, radio, whatever you choose. But develop your ears to learn melodies and simple chord changes.
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Links to streaming music, websites, YouTube: Links |
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Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 9 Jun 2020 5:57 pm
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I found sticking with one tuning (even though I still play around with several) as a primary helped me get more to that natural know-your-way-around-the-fretboard feel I have (and many of us have) in good old EADGBE. I can play tunes in B11, open G, and others, but C6 or C13 feels like home. And that's a good base platform to start developing improvisational skills and just picking out melodies (that's a lot harder to do if you don't have a sense for where the notes are on adjacent strings).
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Waikīkī, at night when the shadows are falling
I hear the rolling surf calling
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Allan Revich
From:
Victoria, BC
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Posted 9 Jun 2020 5:58 pm Re: Moving beyond tab
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| Paul Strojan wrote: |
| I am looking for some advice taking the training wheels and begin playing without having to rely on tablature. |
You have two suggested routes now! Reading + Theory & Playing Along with recordings
My “vote” goes mostly to practice with other musicians a la Mike Neer. Of course a little theory never hurt anyone!
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Current Tunings:
6 String | G – G B D G B D
7 String | G6 – e G B D G B D (re-entrant)
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database |
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 9 Jun 2020 7:25 pm
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| Both suggestions aren’t mutually exclusive. 😎 |
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