chord notation question
Daniel Santos
I am learning music and at the same time how to play a guitar. I am using
a book for begginers, and there is a part of the book that I don't understand.
It presents the 12-bar blues in E progression.
E7/// | //// | //// | //// |
A7/// | //// | E7/// | //// |
B7/// | /A7/// | E7/// | //B7/ |
Until here fine. Each / is a quarter of a period (a beat, each period has four beats, correct me
if I am wrong)
Then the book presents the preceding three lines of the progression in tab format.
The first line goes like (the first E7 line):
---3---0-----------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
4-----------0---3---|-----------------------|-----------0-----------|-----------------------|
4-------------------|---2---0---------------|---1---2-------2---1---|-----------------------|
-------------------|-----------2---0---2---|-----------------------|---2---0---------------|
-------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
-------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
The above tab has additional arches to indicate pull-offs, hammerings, pick direction, etc
(on the book)
What I want to know is how do you go from the progression notation to this single note picking
on the guitar. What I learned so far is to play each chord (made of multiple notes(strings) on the
guitar) simultaneously. Is there some formal method to do this conversion ?
Thanks
one_riff_brian
> Hello,
>
> I am learning music and at the same time how to play a guitar. I am using
> a book for begginers, and there is a part of the book that I don't understand.
> It presents the 12-bar blues in E progression.
>
> E7/// | //// | //// | //// |
> A7/// | //// | E7/// | //// |
> B7/// | /A7/// | E7/// | //B7/ |
>
> Until here fine. Each / is a quarter of a period (a beat, each period has four beats, correct me
> if I am wrong)
> Then the book presents the preceding three lines of the progression in tab format.
>
> The first line goes like (the first E7 line):
>
> 4-----------0---3---|-----------------------|-----------0-----------|-----------------------|
> 4-------------------|---2---0---------------|---1---2-------2---1---|-----------------------|
> -------------------|-----------2---0---2---|-----------------------|---2---0---------------|
> -------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
> -------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
>
> The above tab has additional arches to indicate pull-offs, hammerings, pick direction, etc
> (on the book)
>
> What I want to know is how do you go from the progression notation to this single note picking
> on the guitar. What I learned so far is to play each chord (made of multiple notes(strings) on the
> guitar) simultaneously. Is there some formal method to do this conversion ?
>
> Thanks
Where I think the confusion is, is that the tab is not an alternative
representation of the chord charts, it's a solo line to play
accompanied by the chords, either on another guitar, a recording of
the chords, or most usually these days, a CD that came with the book.
Which book is it? Is there/was there originally a CD with it? Remember
the important thing about tabs is that they're no good unless you can
whistle or hum the music in the first place.
Daniel Luis dos Santos
<brianh...@googlemail.com> said:
> On Jan 3, 6:24�am, Daniel Santos <d...@sapo.pt> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am learning music and at the same time how to play a guitar. I am using
>> a book for begginers, and there is a part of the book that I don't unders
> tand.
>> It presents the 12-bar blues in E progression.
>>
>> E7/// | //// | //// | //// |
>> A7/// | //// | E7/// | //// |
>> B7/// | /A7/// | E7/// | //B7/ |
>>
>> Until here fine. Each / is a quarter of a period (a beat, each period has
> four beats, correct me
>> if I am wrong)
>> Then the book presents the preceding three lines of the progression in ta
> b format.
>>
>> The first line goes like (the first E7 line):
>>
>> �---3---0-----------|-----------------------|-----------------------|--
> -----�----------------|
>> 4-----------0---3---|-----------------------|-----------0-----------|----
> --�-----------------|
>> 4-------------------|---2---0---------------|---1---2-------2---1---|----
> --�-----------------|
>> �-------------------|-----------2---0---2---|-----------------------|--
> -2---�0---------------|
>> �-------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|--
> -----�----------------|
>> �-------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|--
> -----�----------------|
>>
>> The above tab has additional arches to indicate pull-offs, hammerings, pi
> ck direction, etc
>> (on the book)
>>
>> What I want to know is how do you go from the progression notation to thi
> s single note picking
>> on the guitar. What I learned so far is to play each chord (made of multi
> ple notes(strings) on the
>> guitar) simultaneously. Is there some formal method to do this conversion
> ?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Where I think the confusion is, is that the tab is not an alternative
> representation of the chord charts, it's a solo line to play
> accompanied by the chords, either on another guitar, a recording of
> the chords, or most usually these days, a CD that came with the book.
> Which book is it? Is there/was there originally a CD with it? Remember
> the important thing about tabs is that they're no good unless you can
> whistle or hum the music in the first place.
The name of the book is "Learn to play the guitar" and the author is
Phil Capone. I posted this to another newsgroup and the replies were
identical to yours. I guess that's just a lead guitar, and the melody
is made to fit the chord progression. But it could be another different
melody than the one on the book.
Mr. Green
> Hello,
>
> I am learning music and at the same time how to play a guitar. I am using
> a book for begginers, and there is a part of the book that I don't understand.
> It presents the 12-bar blues in E progression.
>
> E7/// | //// | //// | //// |
> A7/// | //// | E7/// | //// |
> B7/// | /A7/// | E7/// | //B7/ |
>
> Until here fine. Each / is a quarter of a period (a beat, each period has four beats, correct me
> if I am wrong)
> Then the book presents the preceding three lines of the progression in tab format.
>
> The first line goes like (the first E7 line):
>
> 4-----------0---3---|-----------------------|-----------0-----------|-----------------------|
> 4-------------------|---2---0---------------|---1---2-------2---1---|-----------------------|
> -------------------|-----------2---0---2---|-----------------------|---2---0---------------|
> -------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
> -------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
>
> (on the book)
>
> What I want to know is how do you go from the progression notation to this single note picking
> on the guitar. What I learned so far is to play each chord (made of multiple notes(strings) on the
> guitar) simultaneously. Is there some formal method to do this conversion ?
>
> Thanks
Hi,
TAB is usually used to show a melody line. You read it from left to
right and play the notes on the frets and strings indicated in that
order. If you come across two or three numbers stacked vertically then
you play them together, like a chord. The vertical bar lines divide
the music into measure of four beats (in this case). So you have
written out four bars of tab.
The problem with tab is that it does not show you the timing of the
notes within each bar. Your example has bars with five notes being
played over the time period of four beats. That's fine but, you can't
tell exactly when to play those notes. The extra lines you have
omitted may be an attempt to show how the notes are grouped together.
As one_riff said, tab is easier to use if you already know how the
tune goes.
Green