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Lack of love for pic users

Bob_Esrock

The Lurking One

Location: The Moon

Joined: Dec 26 2012

Everywhere I look, tabs are always finger style transcriptions. That's fine, I don't have a problem with finger style at all. Don't even take this as complaining, this is still my favorite site for tablature, this is just an observation from a guitar scrub.

But there's a distinct lack of good basic transcriptions, tabs friendly to being played with a simple guitar pic. I play a variety of songs, and pics are very versatile. They may not have much on those fancy newfangled fingers if you can get them moving properly, but they have their place.

Maybe I'm just in the rut of 'too good for the simple tabs' and 'not good enough for the finger style tabs', I'm in no way implying you finger-guru's should dumb down your tabs for the sake of bad guitar players like me. Just the confessions of a completely average pic user expressing an observation.

Ignore the base notes and

BigHeadClan

Joined: Jan 20 2012

Ignore the base notes and play the higher notes, the melody usually resides in those notes anyhow.

You should give the finger

Paynas

Location: Penn

Joined: Sep 11 2012

You should give the finger style transcriptions a go. I taught myself guitar through this website and can say that the finger style tabs really helped me improve from when I first arrived here. It was a pain in the butt trying to figure out what to even do with my hands, but wanting to play the songs made me try everyday. The end result of me hearing myself play the songs was fantastic and completely worth ever second. Good luck man!

Re: Ignore the base notes and

Ennea

humhum..

Location: Germany

Joined: Apr 09 2010

BigHeadClan said

Ignore the base notes and play the higher notes, the melody usually resides in those notes anyhow.

I'm curious if this method offers less than a "pure" pic-tab or if it's fine this way.

Buuuut to be fair, for as long as I remember having a new fingerstyle tab was always a exception, maybe 1 out of 6 so the change of the last couple month is refreshing to me.

Well, the notes should be

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

Well, the notes should be okay that way, but the fingerings might not be ideal. And anyway, you can do a bunch of things when playing with a pick you'd never put into a fingerstyle tab...

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Indeed, it's hit and miss but

BigHeadClan

Joined: Jan 20 2012

Indeed, it's hit and miss but if you are looking for a quick and dirty way to play a finger style piece then that would be one method.

Personally I dislike playing acoustic with a pick, but to each his own.

most of archard's tabs are

Jacob31593

Location: Tampa, FL

Joined: Jan 04 2009

most of archard's tabs are simple melody tab things

I did learn Still Alive by

Bob_Esrock

The Lurking One

Location: The Moon

Joined: Dec 26 2012

I did learn Still Alive by just learning certain parts of a finger style tab, but it's not suitable for every song. Some of the songs here I would love to play, and they're unable to be found anywhere else, but then I see it's finger style and absolutely filled with walls of notes.

I dislike just a simple melody, and absolutely love those rare tabs where both the melody and rhythm are available, but most of them end up being some simple line and that's it.

If anything though, at least this condition is making me desire to learn songs on my own and post them up here for people like me. That, and the selection for a few games are abysmally limited. But that's another story.

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