Any guitar players on the board?

[VirtualMark]

I'm not going to lie, i know next to nothing about guitars. I'm trying to work out how to read the guitar tabs so i can program it in midi on a piano roll. Are there any good guides you can recommend? Or maybe help me out and explain the basic differences between guitar stuff and keyboard stuff. The only music i've studied is for piano/keyboard, so if you know a basic guide then that'd be helpful.

[FeedTheFaithless]

http://guitar.about.com/od/tabchordslyr ... ar_tab.htm



If you need something explained, I play guitar...

Greets,
FTF

[Today]

yup

'73 strat
2001 USA tele
P-bass fretless
Carvin 5 string (fretted)

Fender HotRod DeVille 4x10 combo
Acoustic BA200 combo (bass amp)


(edit)
i did not read the thread.. just its title. heheh.. sorry...

[FeedTheFaithless]

'73 strat

Nice!

Any chance of a picture?

[Theo Void]

Ya I've been playing since I was a young cricket.
Right now I'm rockin' a Schecter C1+, a little 15w Vox modeling amp and a Seagull acoustic.
I try to incorporate guitar into my electronic music but as it is now, guitar music and electronic music are two different projects.
Fun times!!!

[4rantare]

Yupp yup! I've been playing guitar for some years now. :-] it is one of my main interests.
Here are some videos of me playing:
My own song 1 (Live): http://youtu.be/iT_qNWdm6hw
My own song 2 (Live): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW5e3O11s9w
Canon Rock (Live): http://youtu.be/KKy2oZdd8ak
And some improvising: http://youtu.be/0e4pMMjLQbA

You can add me on skype if you want to ask anything. And if you are good at producing I'd love to ask you:D .. trying to learn my way around Cubase, mixing... etc.
Don't have much gear.. only have a Fender that I run through an M-Audio to my computer speakers lol

[FeedTheFaithless]

Guitar show-off time

[4rantare]

Guitar show-off time

haha guitar duel

[D3ATHSTEP]

Been playing for around eight years now . Proud owner of a Jackson SLS-3. Tabs are super easy to understand, if that's what you're asking. I would recommend checking out www.ultimate-guitar.com. They have a massive tab library.

Basically; guitar tabs will have six lines stacked on top of one another. The bottom line is the string closest to you when you're holding the guitar, and top is the furthest away from you. The letters on the left of said lines are what those strings are tuned to. So, for a standard tuning, both the bottom and top strings would have an "E" in front of them.

Now, the numbers you see to the right are the frets being played. If there is a zero, that means you play the string open. Obviously numbers stacked on top of each other indicate a chord. There are some more "advanced" techniques used when tabbing, such as a tilde(spelling? the Spanish thing) used to represent vibrato(shaking the string), blackslashes for slides, and "x"s to represent muting the string with your palm while playing.

Not sure if that's the information you were looking for, but I hope it helped.

[__________]

Been playing since I was 4. Not picked it up for a while but I reckon I've still got the magic

To read guitar tab, just bear in mind the standard tuning of a guitar:

E (highest, thinnest string)
B
G
D
A
E (lowest, thickest string)

When you see a number on a tab, it relates to the fret at which you should play it. Frets go up in semitones, so:

E --------------
B --------------
G --------------
D --------------
A --------------12
E -------1-------

That'd mean play a low F
Then an A

C chord would be:

E -------0
B -------1
G -------0
D -------2
A -------3
E -------

If it doesn't have a number, obviously, don't play (or program the note from) the string
If it's 0, strum it open, like the high E in the C chord

Stairway to Heaven intro, I think (haven't played guitar for a while, or this tune for years) is:

E -----------5---7-------------7----8---------8---2----------
B --------5-------------5--------------5-------------3------
G -----5-------------------5--------------5-------------2---
D --7------------6------------------5-------------4-----------
A ----------------------------------------------------------
E -----------------------------------------------------------

The timing is key. I've only ever learnt tabs from a tune which I couldn't figure out by ear. If you don't know the tune very well it's gonna be a bitch to program.

I bet you any money there's a guitar tab to midi file converter type program out there though, now I think of it.

[forsak3n]

Get Guitar Pro. it helped me heaps when i was a beginner. It plays tabs through midi and you can switch to standard notation too. & like someone said above, ultimate-guitar.com has loads of tabs there.

[Killamike49]

Been playing since I was 4. Not picked it up for a while but I reckon I've still got the magic

To read guitar tab, just bear in mind the standard tuning of a guitar:

E (highest, thinnest string)
B
G
D
A
E (lowest, thickest string)

When you see a number on a tab, it relates to the fret at which you should play it. Frets go up in semitones, so:

E --------------
B --------------
G --------------
D --------------
A --------------12
E -------1-------

That'd mean play a low F
Then an A

C chord would be:

E -------0
B -------1
G -------0
D -------2
A -------3
E -------

If it doesn't have a number, obviously, don't play (or program the note from) the string
If it's 0, strum it open, like the high E in the C chord

Stairway to Heaven intro, I think (haven't played guitar for a while, or this tune for years) is:

E --5--------5---7-------------7----8---------8---2----------
B --------5-------------5--------------5-------------3------
G -----5-------------------5--------------5-------------2---
D --7------------6------------------5-------------4-----------
A ----------------------------------------------------------
E -----------------------------------------------------------

The timing is key. I've only ever learnt tabs from a tune which I couldn't figure out by ear. If you don't know the tune very well it's gonna be a bitch to program.

I bet you any money there's a guitar tab to midi file converter type program out there though, now I think of it.

Hate to be a dick, but fixed.
And to your second point there is, it's a program called tabit!. I posted it on the boards a while ago, but it seemed noone cared.

[Sonika]

'73 strat

A legit one?
I hate you


@OP - I've been playing for around 5 years now

[Today]

[4rantare]

Today: beautiful guitar =)
I have a 69' anniversary american Fender (I f*cking love it):

[cosmic_surgeon]

Just got rid of my Fender Lite Ash Tele - played from 14-21 but lost all interest in it over the last few years.

£10bag's explanation is right, though you should pay attention that the tab's not in any non-standard tuning before translating it into MIDI notation.

[Duffman]

Get Guitar Pro. it helped me heaps when i was a beginner. It plays tabs through midi and you can switch to standard notation too. & like someone said above, ultimate-guitar.com has loads of tabs there.

Or Tux Guitar, basically the same but free, good for poor bastards like me

Oh and I'm a Les Paul man myself, got a Gibson lp studio, it's beautiful

[Augment]

'73 strat

A legit one?
I hate you


@OP - I've been playing for around 5 years now

This post is exactly what I was going to type

[vertex]

I picked up an acoustic guitar recently and the whole tabs thing had me confused until now, cheers.

Now I guess the next thing to do is learn a few chords?

[Killamike49]

I picked up an acoustic guitar recently and the whole tabs thing had me confused until now, cheers.

Now I guess the next thing to do is learn a few chords?

Sure. Learn some chords, some catchy songs you like. It's all fun from this point.