On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 14:20 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-08 at 13:39 +0200, immanuel litzroth wrote: > > Most of the beatles transcriptions I've seen out there are close to > > worthless with the notable exceptions of > > All notations and tabulations and chord notations usually are > worthless :p ... > > > 1) The Complete Scores --- white book by Hal Leonard which has most > > everything > > and is at least good enough for a basis for e.g. playing in a group > > and tries to get > > capo's and retunings correct > > 2) The Beatles to a Tee: http://www.to-a-tee.tv/ > > well researched, concerned with the guitar parts on about 1/3 of the > > beatle catalogue. > > Goes into questions of tunings, variable speed recording etc.. > > 3) This guy is doing a fantastic job at transcribing mostly the vocal > > harmonies of the > > beatles but some other stuff too: > > http://www.youtube.com/user/imcarrying > > ... however, I suspect you know what you're writing and I'll take a look > at your recommendations ASAP :). > > > All the rest is useless... Yellow submarine in Gb -- really? > > i > > I don't care about the "basic", it should fit to my limited vocal > abilities (and I'm able to transpose myself, not that hard when playing > guitar ;) and perhaps books were transposed to the "needs" of the author > or the averaged abilities to untrained vocalists. There's still the > question why do they transpose instrumental songs? A broken turn table? > I once listened to an EP from the Ruhrgebiet (I won't name them, they > are a "members" of two well known Metal Band and they are assholes ... > yes, I personally know one or the other, but I've nothing to do with > them and I'm not involved in their legal battles, I just lost a > girlfriend, since I wasn't willing to play guitar in one of the bands, > just to get money, instead I prefer to have nothing to eat. Hahaha, it > was some time before they switched from musical instruments to books > about the law. > > IIRC I already recommended this book: > > ISBN 0-7119-0015-9 > Original Hendrix by Steve Tarshis. > > IIRC the only weakness of this book is, that it doesn't take care about > the pitch, IIRC we need to pitch all strings down one step (for playing > with open strings this isn't simply transposing), OTOH I've seen > "Soundgarden" tabs in the Internet, that were nearly correct, they > simply missed to inform about the fact, that just one string needs to be > dropped down ;) and this IMO is a serious issue. I lost the thread regarding to this/those Ruhrgebiet Metal Band(s). I played the EP with wrong speed, 33 instead of 45 and the music does sound much better (ok, still idiotic). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
