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Tabs you always wanted played

musenji

Joined: Feb 02 2010

So, okay, there's been hubbub about people getting ratings lower than they want. But question: do you ever put in tons of work for a tab, but it seems nobody cares to even try it out?

What about a thread where people trade trying out tabs? Where person A tries out a tab by person B, in exchange for person B trying out a tab by person A. We all like attention, but we're not all Kabukibear. :p

And you could specify what category you have and/or would be willing to try. For example, I do fingerstyle/classical playing, so that is primarily what I would have to offer. However, I'd also try out electric/melodic stuff.

I think that this could be, in addition to getting tabs attention, a way for people to simply try stuff they wouldn't normally try, without it being a contest.

Does this sound like a feasible idea? It could be pretty low-key and relaxed, I think. One tab for one tab.

http://www.gametabs.net/forum

SalemJenet

Joined: Sep 22 2011

OrangeCaramel> http://www.gametabs.net/forum/topic/16456#new what a silly thread
OrangeCaramel> hurp durp
OrangeCaramel> lets play tabs nobody plays so whiners get attention
HermanSmith> <:
karathrow> I mean I do like when people point out cool arrangements I havent seen before
karathrow> but yeah that thread >.>;;
karathrow> I think musenji is just really tired or bored when he comes home from work or whatever and just posts crazy bullshit
HermanSmith> would be better if it's "post underrated tabs here"

Musenji needs his own

Ennea

humhum..

Location: Germany

Joined: Apr 09 2010

Musenji needs his own fingerstyle challenge :d

Ok, try this http://www.gametabs.net/super-nintendo/chrono-trigger/schala

Actually Ennea, I've got

musenji

Joined: Feb 02 2010

Actually Ennea, I've got plenty of classical music to keep me busy. I really was thinking I wanted someone else to try a couple of my tabs, and I would play theirs, if it seemed like a fair trade.

Yes, irc people, I say this openly. So if you have a problem, please criticize it openly, instead of posting what amounts to a smear. I was in fact asking if people thought it was a good idea overall.

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And then I realized that the chord progression from Chrono Cross's Another World is the same progression as the chorus from Peace of Mind by Boston, and life was never quite the same.

I think this thread is good

Jacob31593

Location: Tampa, FL

Joined: Jan 04 2009

I think this thread is good

oh boy playing diablo all

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

playing diablo all day can really make you into a little bitch

still my favorite of yours musenji
http://www.gametabs.net/chrono-cross/on-beach-of-dreams-another-world-0

another tab someone uploaded (I don't think they frequent the forum though) that I really liked
http://www.gametabs.net/donkey-kong-country-2/hot-head-bop-0
this guys got a bunch of really good tabs IMO

There are plenty of great

Parhelion

Joined: Mar 02 2009

There are plenty of great tabs that never get any attention. I like the idea, but the authors of some of those tabs don't post anymore, so we'd have to trade those tabs on their behalf.

Also, its unfortunate that there is poison being spread in IRC. Seemed like a decent enough place the few times I visited.

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Friend of the pag.

Well I didnt mean to make

Ennea

humhum..

Location: Germany

Joined: Apr 09 2010

Well I didnt mean to make ridicule the idea, in fact I was serious :d I hardly see any stamen recordings because they are kinda too hard for most people.
Wouldn't mind to try out some mentioned pieces here, can't promise a recording though (especially not for multiple guitar - I suck at editing) - but don't have many tabs to offer :D

Re: oh boy oh boy its time for

Hakoria

Laon King

Location: gmt+1

Joined: Apr 03 2011

Lemoncobbler said

http://www.gametabs.net/playstation-2/final-fantasy-x/to-the-end-of-the-abyss

Oh snap, I've found my next piece to practice for fingerstyle.

Re: oh boy oh boy its time for

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

Hakoria said

Lemoncobbler said

http://www.gametabs.net/playstation-2/final-fantasy-x/to-the-end-of-the-abyss

Oh snap, I've found my next piece to practice for fingerstyle.

good luck, its a hard one, but it sounds really cool if you can play it up to speed!

The day someone other than me

surreal

Eric: tank,godlike

Location: Arizona

Joined: Jan 04 2009

The day someone other than me records one of my arrangements will be the day I quit guitar forever.

Re: The day someone other than me

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

surreal said

The day someone other than me records one of my arrangements will be the day I quit guitar forever.

so does this mean I can play one of your recordings badly to make you quit guitar so I can one day be better than you?
cause that would make me happy :J

I'd have to sanction it

surreal

Eric: tank,godlike

Location: Arizona

Joined: Jan 04 2009

I'd have to sanction it first. There's a due process here.

And you'll never be better than me.

:|

Re: oh boy oh boy its time for

Hakoria

Laon King

Location: gmt+1

Joined: Apr 03 2011

^Have you worked your rhythm yet like some guy said on your mckee cover?

Lemoncobbler said

good luck, its a hard one, but it sounds really cool if you can play it up to speed!

Not too hard hand position wise so it'll go well with practice, but still not something I'll have mastered in just an hour imo. From the look I had, I'll most likely use thumb on a small number of occasions for low e bass notes (even on my acoustic it never strains my hand so I don't mind doing it; piano worked my hands stretch like a bitch due to some chords larger than octaves (which is also the case for a Chopin nocturne I'm working on atm for the conservatory) so +flexibility gain even on guitar), otherwise m11 seems like the hardest to pull off cleanly with those sixteenth notes and working on the neck between fret #3 and #12. I never knew Stamen did a fingerstyle arrange of this underrated piece though which is why it was a pleasant surprise, thanks for showing it.

Yep

surreal

Eric: tank,godlike

Location: Arizona

Joined: Jan 04 2009

Yep.

The main thing I lacked at the time was keeping time while in the midst of two hand tapping rhythms. Mind you, I definitely made good use of training more with time as far as my base playing goes. Tapping is a different form of audio and tactile stimulation, shit is fly.

Ennea, I didn't mean you. I

musenji

Joined: Feb 02 2010

Ennea, I didn't mean you. I meant everyone Salem was quoting in his post from irc chat, and Salem as well, for posting it instead of saying "I think this is a bad idea, because.."

However, the original idea is, to be even more explicit, for people to be able to say,

"I made this tab, but it doesn't seem to have been tried very much, it doesn't have any votes or comments. Is there anyone else with a tab they would like feedback on? And I'll play that tab, if you play this one."

So the point is fundamentally based on the idea of trading, rather than requesting.

Of course, if you're not a big tabber yourself, but you have tabs that you know about that you do think deserve some attention, that's fine too, as long as it's still an offer for a trade and not merely a request. I wasn't thinking about recordings as part of the deal, but of course they can be, if people decide to.

It's not about whining either, because whiners just complain--they don't offer anything in exchange.

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And then I realized that the chord progression from Chrono Cross's Another World is the same progression as the chorus from Peace of Mind by Boston, and life was never quite the same.

Re: I'd have to sanction it

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

surreal said

And you'll never be better than me.

eat all the dicks eric, all of em

oh and yeah, end of the abyss

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

oh and yeah, end of the abyss I think was one of the most underrated songs from the FF series ever. I'd love you long time if you did a recording of it.

In my humble opinion, it's a

Crazymoogle

Crazymoogle

Location: SoCal

Joined: Mar 30 2012

In my humble opinion, it's a good idea Musenji :)

This is one of my least

hslesperance

Location: Walpole, MA

Joined: Aug 10 2008

This is one of my least viewed tabs
If you play it musenji I will play your tab

But seriously, I put a lot of work into this and thought it was funny how my prelude tab from the same game which only took a half hour to tab got more views, ha.

What would you like to be played of your tabs musenji? It would be nice to actually learn something, I never actually take the time to memorize anything on this site, although I do play nearly everything being a moderator.

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My Original Songs - https://soundcloud.com/hslesperance

Not smearing anyone. All I

karathrow

Joined: Oct 26 2010

Not smearing anyone. All I said was you post crazy shit when you are tired. You even said as much in one of your posts.

Also lemon don't hate, you play some gross ass games too.

As for this thread there are a couple tabs I got close to recording but never sealed the deal on. Seeing someone play them in a way that didn't sound shitty would be cool I guess?

http://www.gametabs.net/legend-of-zelda-phantom-hourglass/linebecks-theme

Maybe you only said it

Jacob31593

Location: Tampa, FL

Joined: Jan 04 2009

Maybe you only said it because you were tired after coming home from home

Jacob wins, fair enough kara,

musenji

Joined: Feb 02 2010

Jacob wins; fair enough kara; I am tired now; hsl I will post one later, and you can think of one of yours or something else you'd like to see played. Oh, wait, you did. and...oh. oh shit. Uh,

...

hahahahahahahhahhaha

Yeah. Okay. Maybe we can strike some sort of deal.

I can just see you sitting there like "why doesn't everyone try this, it's only 22 minutes played at tempo"

I need to sleep first.

(side note to karathrow: I WAS tired when I posted the thread, but, the idea had been brewing for a couple days by then, so it was genuine)

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And then I realized that the chord progression from Chrono Cross's Another World is the same progression as the chorus from Peace of Mind by Boston, and life was never quite the same.

Re: oh and yeah, end of the abyss

Hakoria

Laon King

Location: gmt+1

Joined: Apr 03 2011

Lemoncobbler said

oh and yeah, end of the abyss I think was one of the most underrated songs from the FF series ever. I'd love you long time if you did a recording of it.

It's the 'Buried in the snow' (FF7) or 'Boundary South Gate' (FF9) of FFX for me I guess, since those are also only played in one area (not sure about FF9 anymore, but pretty convinced anyway), not really mentioned/ever used in medleys, but I would always stick in those maps forever just for the music.
So started learning EotA a bit, m11 is actually easier than I thought even at tempo. I'm busier with piano atm though but I'll probably finish learning it by heart by this weekend/mid-next week, then playing it entirely in a good manner: iunnoyet. I'll record it then.

It's not like I'm doing it for you though, b--baka!

surreal said

Yep.

The main thing I lacked at the time was keeping time while in the midst of two hand tapping rhythms. Mind you, I definitely made good use of training more with time as far as my base playing goes. Tapping is a different form of audio and tactile stimulation, shit is fly.

Tapping is more like playing a keyboard instrument than a string one, is how I always saw it (although pull-offs is what makes it still different). And gj for progress.
Edit: I forgot again; what was that acoustic song you had mentioned sometime last year in IRC which even the composer didn't perfectly play? From some free game probably, and besides that I remember you played it while streaming more recently. I'll fave it this time as to not lose it again |:

Re: Maybe you only said it

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

Jacob31593 said

Maybe you only said it because you were tired after coming home from home

@hakoria, yesss, buried in the snow is great, and while south gate is a great song, I think this is the true buried gem of ff9. I don't even remember when this one plays, but i'd love to have a friend to play the cello while I play the guitar (it would sound cool on a harp, but fuck it, guitar works too!)


and I expect a recording by end of next week at the latest <3

Okay hsl, so the section of

musenji

Joined: Feb 02 2010

Okay hsl, so the section of your tab before the Airship section has 284 measures. I'm gonna assume the airship bit is about as long. I think total, my tabs all put together have less measures than that one tab alone. :p

But you're the first to actually ask what I wanted to see played. So. My offer is to take a crack at the entire first half of your FFVI tab (which, regardless of the votes, I will probably be the first person to actually DO, haha), in exchange for having these five played through a bit:

http://www.gametabs.net/dragon-quest-iii/small-shrine
http://www.gametabs.net/legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time/windmill-hut-1
http://www.gametabs.net/wave-race-64/dolphin-park
http://www.gametabs.net/dragon-quest-iv/mysterious-shrine
http://www.gametabs.net/dragon-quest-iv/town

They total less than 100 measures. And, rather than votes or a recording, per se, I'm most interested in commentary on them. I'm interested to see what someone else actually thinks about them, from a playing perspective. But if you wanna trade draft-ish recordings, I'd think about it. Have to play through it first.

Sound good?

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And then I realized that the chord progression from Chrono Cross's Another World is the same progression as the chorus from Peace of Mind by Boston, and life was never quite the same.

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Colin_spade

Dami

Joined: Feb 12 2009

I have a stamen recording. :3 it's not that well done but the fingering i did is easiest for a hard piece @o@

Re: Jacob wins, fair enough kara,

hslesperance

Location: Walpole, MA

Joined: Aug 10 2008

musenji said

I can just see you sitting there like "why doesn't everyone try this, it's only 22 minutes played at tempo"

Ha, I thought people would play a part or two and come back another day to play a different part. The song is split into about 20 sections and I labeled the timing of each.

I'll check out those tabs and offer feedback. I don't have anything to record with though.

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My Original Songs - https://soundcloud.com/hslesperance

I got up to Relm, now I need

musenji

Joined: Feb 02 2010

I got up to Relm, now I need to sleeeeeeeep!

Initial thoughts:

Some of them are really nice, I liked Gau's playout. With some of the others, it's a bit of a stretch to have it on one guitar instead of two since the texture --really-- thins out. Nevertheless, I feel you've captured the important notes pretty much throughout--the ones that make the music feel like it should.

There is some funky left-hand workout action, barres on the first fret while playing up to fret 4, pretty regularly. Makes me think you'll like my mysterious shrine from DQ IV--classical style but played on electric, with a couple of really, really funky left hand position switches that are doable, just not what anyone should be used to. Speaking of electric, I was trying this on a classical and obviously when you get up past 12, it's danger territory, though perhaps not impossible.

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And then I realized that the chord progression from Chrono Cross's Another World is the same progression as the chorus from Peace of Mind by Boston, and life was never quite the same.