Where are you getting your tabs from?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Lampshade1973
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I can't remember the last time I used tabs. I used to tab mod at MX when it was a thing though. Just use your ears, you get better the less you rely on tabs.
 
I just google it..."song name" + "guitar tab" and compare the good with the bad.

I find it's wrong a lot, chords and solos. Best not to rely on it, but just use online tabs as a guideline.

I even remember Guitar Player magazine tabs back in the 80's having some wrong stuff for Randy Rhoads solos.
 
Who cares if it is note for note. Too many people get hung up on it being exactly the same. I have seen plenty of pros (Petrucci for example) who play it one way originally and over the years either changed the position or play it all together different. I usually try to get in the same vicinity as the most memorable notes and forget about others. If you are trying to learn note for note then there is value in that approach. I'm just not good enough of a guitar player at my age in life to care if I am plying it "right".
 
Dingleberries":1dw20rei said:
I'm not big on playing note for note, I'll use tab as a rough outline, I never play solos note for note.

+1
 
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