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I finally wrote it myself using youtube Steve’s “howe es175” video clips.. although it took me days to tab,, I wish to share it here.. I can video myself playing it just as in the video I also tabbed Steve Howe’s “Mood for a day” and “Surface Tension” It was meticulous work but I enjoy doing this with certain classic rocks I want to learn but could never find the right tab online.. so I have it .Not sure how to share it over the internet. I guess there are tab software programs I could get ? peace xmas too John .
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I know what you mean about tabbing from a YT video. I’ve done that with some tunes and it can be hard in some passages but it really helps train the ear to perceive what the player is doing.
As far as tab programs, Power Tab is pretty, especially since its free.
Guitar Pro is another one but its about $60. You can download a trial version of it for free; I lucked out and bought the upgrade for $30 thru a special they were running.
If you would use Power Tab, I think that most of the other tab programs will import that format and a Power Tab score would pretty much universal
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With Power Tab and Guitar Pro, you have to input all of the notes, rests, etc. I don’t know of any program that will ‘listen’ to the music and tab the score for you.
Here are some links to Sibelius 7, which is one of the most popular programs. Its too pricey for me but it might give you some insight as to what you are wanting to do
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Thanks, I’ll check them sites out, another thing down the road too, I want to slow down software of some kind that works to aid me find those special riffs or whatever,, such as David Gilmours leads from “Animals” think there is some online site think it is called “slowdown” where it slows down any song you put into it? This too can help get the hard stuff quicker.. but nothing beats the good ole fashion training by ear and lessons.with the aid of video.. I wish I learned the basic blues scales /pentatonic long time ago.I am crashing through and enjoying Brians lessons but I am advancing pretty quickly nowadays. Yesterday I finally got up to tempo with the Jerry Reed’s breakdown , much thanks to Cortese lol anyhow, all in fun, yes being. self taught but never understood how important is is to take lesson. I have been collecting guitars nowadays and own over a dozenl, love my D35 martin D17 twelve my ovations strat tele sg les paul .. I like my little yamaha 171 flamenco .. I like playing more finger style than picking , advancing fast now that I been learning understanding what it is I’m doing. I will look into that online tab software later, John
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One option to slow music down is to use the VLC player, link below. It will slow down both audio and video and does a fair job of keeping it in key. Best of all, its free.
You can download any video from Youtube, I use Real Player for the downloads. It works well and isn’t hard to learn. Basically, if you install the latest free version of Real Player, you can roll your mouse over the video as its playing and a small dialogue box will pop up over the video asking if you want to down load. Click on that and usually in a couple of minutes its in your download folder in a subfolder called – Drum Roll Please – Real Player Videos. Clever name huh?
I have to use IE9 to download with Real Player. I usually use Firefox as my browser and there is plugin that won’t allow Real Player to download. If you are strictly using Firefox and maybe have deleted IE from your PC, you can open a browser window in Real Player and download that way.http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
With the VLC program, you can slow music down and set loop points to repeat. The controls for the loop point takes some time to learn how to use but they do work
Other programs to slow music down are:
Transkriber by Reed Kotler. I’ve used this for several years and it works well but is for audio only
Song Surgeon – Standard and Pro Versions. I think that the Pro version will work with video as well as audio. I’ve considered buying because of the additional features.
Slow Gold
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I use a programme called JamVox. It is primcipally a modelling device where you can try dozens of different amps (V0X, of course) and effects but you can upload your favourite songs AND record your own stuff. In addition you can slow down the tracks to a speed where you can pick out the individual notes and miraculously they stay in pitch so you don’t have to retune your guitar. Very clever but it isn’t free!
If you buy it I would avoid the latest version and go for the original. My friends and I think it is better.
Dr Golf
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