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Thread started 06/23/05 7:24pm

smellmyfunk

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Piano Tabs.. Is there such a thing??

Is there such a thing and where the hell can
i find it?? My pitch sucks so i can't figure
out how to play some Tom Waits song that i really love.
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Reply #1 posted 06/23/05 7:25pm

Heavenly

no, there's no such thing as piano tabs. it's simply called sheet music
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Reply #2 posted 06/24/05 5:34am

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Well, there's a lead sheet, usually for guitarists but you can use it for piano as well. Also known as charts; instead of sheet music, it's just chords for each measure. You'll still need to know your way around a piano, but by showing just the chords, it frees you up to play your own interpretation of the song instead of the literal version.

Go look into "Piano In a Flash" by Scott Something-or-other. If you don't know how to read music, it's a great book to get you up and running pretty quickly. But if you want to play the song, note-for-note, then yeah, sheet music is piano tabs. Otherwise, it would be:

lt - 56 - 58 - 59 - 59 - 59
li - 50 - 53 - 55 - 55 - 57
lm - 45 - 45 - 45 - 46 - 49
lr - xx - xx - xx - xx - xx
lp - 40 - 41 - 41 - 43 - 43

Or some nonsense. Sheet music does the same thing, only better. (HAHAHA IF YOU CAN LEARN TO READ IT!!)
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