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Home › Forums › Active Melody Guitar Lessons › Tabs for EP315 with mistake?
Hi Folks,
EP315 seems to be very popular and I guess my question will be answered very quickly…
On the end of bar 7 the tab „says“ a halftone bend on the low E string second fret. Shouldn’t that be the same quarter tone bend on the third thread as it is in the whole song?
Hi Andre, It can be any thing you want it to be, if you like what your doing with it how it sounds, Good. I realize one of the mistakes I used to make was staying in the box instead of making the music my own and enjoying the freedom that came with it, I would suggest to help you progress as a player don’t restrict yourself, enjoy yourself. the only thing that should be is what you want. I wonder how, myself included, people get stuck in this mindset of thinking music should be played a certain way, we want freedom to express ourselves with music..
David what you say can indeed be a way to look at things and a bend here or there may not upset the apple cart for sure but I do think that there is great benefit in doing ones best to get to close as possible to the sound that Brain creates. The reason is simple if you just make it the way you want you will most likely make it in the way you made a previous piece and perhaps dodge a challenge to the fingering or mastery of a difficult nuance. On the other hand Brian can imitate so well as he regualrily demonstrates mimikcking from say Chet Atkins to Mark Knopflerr to JJ cale to BB to Albert to Eric etc. I believe that if you tend to short cut you are in the end going to end up less proficient. Its not that playing the tab exactly has to be a golden rule it simply if you do copy as well as you can you will gain the most in the long term.
JohnStrat
I‘m not native English speaking. So maybe
I used the word mistake wrong hear. Sorry.
The better question may is: Defers the tab from what Brian plays and explains in the video or am I missing something?
My approach here indeed is to play it „right“. I’m still a very beginner so „playing it right“ is important to me to get the basics down first and maybe later I can use the achieved skills to improvise.
Andre I think you have it right Andre. There are a few slips to be found in the tab from time to time Brian tries to correct them but every now and again one appears to get bye. One easy tip here is to open soundslice for the lesson in question and home in on the bar and you can then slow it down to see what is actually played. Hope that is a help JohnStrat
Andre, I don’t know this lesson but there are tab errors in some of the lessons.
Many players don’t play the exact same thing every time through a piece. It is a real challenge for instructors to play something the exact same way over and over.
Brian plays the lesson at full tempo to start his video lessons. He records the same lesson at a slow tempo also and I think the soundslice tab comes from the slow video. Sometimes there are variations between the two. Some are simply a transcription mistake. You can check the soundslice tab against the download tab. If they both seem wrong, they probably are.
When you find a tab error, just ignore it and play it the way that sounds good to you.
I try to be true to the lesson but can’t play as well as Brian or even use the same fingers in some cases. Sometimes I have to simplify things.
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