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Notes and tabs

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Sun, 04/17/2016 - 05:06
MMutzke
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Hello there,

 

I'm wondering if there is a good ressource on written (blues) music (notes + tabs).

I know about harptabs.com but it's really strange for me to not see the rythm etc. through notes.

There's a lot of material out there for guitars and pianos. Not so for harmonicas. All I see is tabs only.

 

If there's no good ressource which notes should I look up to tab myself: Guitar, piano, singing, ...?

 

Thanks a lot

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Mon, 04/18/2016 - 06:26
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Dave Blue
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I don't know much about this

I don't know much about this but I would suggest you need the 'tune' music, either melody or vocals. Then transpose it to key of C. After that you can work out the hole tabs. This process is explained in Music Theory on here but not sure what level it is.

 

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Tue, 04/19/2016 - 08:52
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Expert Winslow Yerxa
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Filisko's tab rhythm notation

Joe Filisko uses a tab system that gives rythmic information. He doesn't use traditional rhythmic notation to do it, however. He has a grid above the tab that looks like horizontal brackets, with each bracket indicating one beat and then short vertical lines descending from the bracket to indicate divisions of the beat. You can see it in his key to notation symbols here:

http://www.filiskostore.com/files/1900363/uploaded/Notational%20Symbols.pdf

The advantage to this is that he can preprint a page with a rhythm grid and then hand write the tab - a low-tech solution to be sure, but one that doesn't put a lot of software between the writer and the written.

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