Do you search tabs or figure things out on your own?

I love playing prince's music on guitar and I often fixate on songs for days at a time.

This week has been Last December and The Love We Make.

Been playing them non-stop!!.

Anyone ever seen this guy's YouTube page where he teaches Prince songs?

https://www.youtube.com/p...A5YiowVFt0

it is REALLY cool and he is an amazing teacher.

lol...thats what I thought.

no musicians.

Me. I figure things out by ear

Figure it out on my own.

I play. When I was seventeen years old, I borrowed an acoustic guitar from my friend because my folks wouldn't let me buy one because my mother was convinced it was just a phase and I would play it a day or two and put it down. My friend was a Prince fan as well. He loaned me the guitar and Prince: the Hits 1 and 2 sheet music book (which included guitar chords at the top). Soon, I bought an electric and kept on trucking. I told my friends that I wasn't going to stop until I could play the solo from Purple Rain verbatim. I know that's cliche. I eventually did, and went on to perform it with a cover band hundreds of times. I'm a white guy in the South, so that was about all the Prince I could slip in the honky-tonk, but I know dozens of Prince tunes.

I do look up tabs for a basis, but so many of them are way, way off that you will probably have to adjust it. It can still be nice to have a starting place, though.

For all the Prince things I have marvelled over, picked apart, and tried to play, one that eludes me to this day is that crazy intro guitar to When Doves Cry. I can even watch the YouTube videos of someone breaking it down, but I can never get it. It's so spontaneous, and yet so planned out at the same time. Just an example of the kind of genius we are dealing with here.

If I had to make a declaration for my favorite Prince solo (official release), I would go Morning Papers first.

There, that was fun.

plenty of guitarists here, they are probably somewhere practicing.

Actually stumbled over this guys channel the other week. His Prince lessons are really cool.

branpierce said:

I play. When I was seventeen years old, I borrowed an acoustic guitar from my friend because my folks wouldn't let me buy one because my mother was convinced it was just a phase and I would play it a day or two and put it down. My friend was a Prince fan as well. He loaned me the guitar and Prince: the Hits 1 and 2 sheet music book (which included guitar chords at the top). Soon, I bought an electric and kept on trucking. I told my friends that I wasn't going to stop until I could play the solo from Purple Rain verbatim. I know that's cliche. I eventually did, and went on to perform it with a cover band hundreds of times. I'm a white guy in the South, so that was about all the Prince I could slip in the honky-tonk, but I know dozens of Prince tunes.

I do look up tabs for a basis, but so many of them are way, way off that you will probably have to adjust it. It can still be nice to have a starting place, though.

For all the Prince things I have marvelled over, picked apart, and tried to play, one that eludes me to this day is that crazy intro guitar to When Doves Cry. I can even watch the YouTube videos of someone breaking it down, but I can never get it. It's so spontaneous, and yet so planned out at the same time. Just an example of the kind of genius we are dealing with here.

If I had to make a declaration for my favorite Prince solo (official release), I would go Morning Papers first.

There, that was fun.

the guy from zz top said that he and prince would talk, he once told prince that the intro to wdc was beyond him and prince said it gets him too.

I have clamored for a Guitar Tabs/Chords section for Prince music on this forum before.

Jason's lessons are AWESOME. I really found out that I'm not nearly as good as I thought I was!

Musze said:

I have clamored for a Guitar Tabs/Chords section for Prince music on this forum before.

This has been going for years now...

http://prince.forum9.biz/

daf1999 said:

Musze said:

I have clamored for a Guitar Tabs/Chords section for Prince music on this forum before.

This has been going for years now...

http://prince.forum9.biz/

Holy shit. I believe I used to be registered and eventually I lost the URL when switching PC's or something. Just re-registered. Thank U.