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View Poll Results: Which do you use most often to learn songs?
tabs 5 23.81%
standard notation sheet music 1 4.76%
by ear 8 38.10%
by video 0 0%
chord diagrams 1 4.76%
Guitar Pro 6 28.57%
Powertab 0 0%
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Old 07-25-2008, 07:02 PM
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Default How do you usually learn songs?

How do you usually learn songs? Tabs, standard notation sheet music, by ear, by video, chord diagrams, Guitar Pro, or Powertab?
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Old 07-25-2008, 07:12 PM
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Tabs and by ear. Mostly I look at a tab, and listen to hear if it sounds right. Other times I stumble upon the correct way to play a song by messing around.
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Old 07-25-2008, 08:15 PM
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i listen to the song, play what i want via tabs and then i make it my own
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Old 07-25-2008, 08:47 PM
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Default Re: How do you usually learn songs?

for drums i mostly learn it by ear. for complex parts i'l use guitar pro. for guitar, il use guitar pro.
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Old 07-26-2008, 01:29 PM
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Default Re: How do you usually learn songs?

i use Guitar pro and i will play by ear just depends on how i'm feeling
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Old 07-26-2008, 08:27 PM
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Default Re: How do you usually learn songs?

I'm always playing it in Guitar Pro, but when I do that it's harder for me to memorize the song. I'm trying to stay away from GP and using regular tabs so I can memorize them. Site reading it is easier than memorizing, but I need to memorize them
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Old 07-26-2008, 11:08 PM
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Default Re: How do you usually learn songs?

I use Guitar pro but depending on how much i want to learn a song i will use anything.
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Old 07-29-2008, 09:50 AM
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Default Re: How do you usually learn songs?

I usually just get a chord chart for the song and then do it by ear from there.

Just looking at tabs gives me a head ache, and I never got around to learning the clef for my main instrument (bass) so its usually chord charts for me.

If I can't find the charts, Ill usually do it by ear.
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Old 07-29-2008, 04:23 PM
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Well I always write down tabs after looking at it on a site and checking it. I might add or subtact stuff, and make it easier for me to understand and memorize.
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Default Re: How do you usually learn songs?

I normally learn by guitar pro or tabs, but I figure out a lot by ear too.
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Old 08-12-2008, 12:36 PM
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Guitar Pro is da best :mrgreen:
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Old 08-12-2008, 12:37 PM
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an option by vdeo??? .....mayb god learns usin a video :lol:
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Old 08-12-2008, 01:41 PM
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To my opinion,first the classical basic have to be learnt very attentively,thoroughly and practice for longtime,then any type of songs to be selected..classical basic is very important
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Old 08-12-2008, 04:18 PM
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Default Re: How do you usually learn songs?

Looks like most of us can play by ear!

Why doesn't somebody tab out "Blinded by the Light" By Manfred Mann's Earth Band for me please!! :mrgreen:
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Old 08-12-2008, 04:22 PM
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i will look at it.
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Old 08-12-2008, 04:24 PM
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Code:
A       B      E
blinded by the light
        A        B             E
Revved up like a deuce another runner in the night

E                            A                           B               E
Madman drummers bummers and Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
                                   A                    B            E
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
                              A                     B                    E
With a boulder on my shoulder feelin' kinda older I tripped the merry-go-round
                          A                         B                       E
With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground

    B                       E
the calliope crashed to the ground and she was...

CHORUS
A       B      E
blinded by the light
        A        B             E
Revved up like a deuce another runner in the night
A       B      E 
Blinded by the light

       B                                          A                     E
Some silicone sister with her manager's mister told me I got what it takes
                  B                                                   A                      E
She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong if you play that song with the funky break
      B                                                     A                  E
And go-cart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside
        B                                               A                       E 
And little Early-Pearly came in by her curly-wurly and asked me if I needed a ride
 A                       E  C#m
asked me if I needed a ride and she was...

CHORUS
A       B      E
blinded by the light
        A        B             E
Revved up like a deuce another runner in the night
  A     B      E C#m B                                      A                 E  A    E C#m
Blinded by the light she got down but she never got tight,  she's gonna make it thorugh the night
A                 E  A    E C#m
she's gonna make it thorugh the night

B                                                      A
Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
E                            A          E   A
but mama that's where the fun is.....ooh

     E                  A                   B                       E
Some brimstone baritone anticyclone rolling stone preacher from the east
                                A                                B                         E
says: "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in its funny bone, that's where they expect it least"
                                A                      B                        E
And some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner watchin' the young girls dance
E                                A                            B
And some fresh-sown moonstone was messin' with his frozen zone reminding him of romance
    B                       E
the calliope crashed to the ground and she was...

CHORUS
A       B      E
blinded by the light
        A        B             E
Revved up like a deuce another runner in the night
  A     B      E 
Blinded by the light

A       B      E
blinded by the light
    A            B             E
cut loose like a deuce another runner in the night
  A     B      E 
Blinded by the light

                  A                           B                                E
Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand
                                      A                               B                    E
And some bloodshot forget-me-not says Daddy's within earshot save the buckshot turn up the band

B                                    A                 E  A    E C#m
She got down but she never got tight she's gonna' make it through the night.
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Old 08-15-2008, 04:21 AM
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Default Re: How do you usually learn songs?

use my ear. study with my friends.they play guitar very well.
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