TAB Notation vs Music Notation | Tom Strahle | Easy Guitar | Basic Guitar

I just love seeing you play. Amazing video as always.

thank you Tom I have enjoyed several of your tutorials now. I promise to keep watching as long as you are posting

Okay, I have some sheets that show both music notation as well as tab, so I'll have to look some at the music notation. I had a previous instructor that had me looking at both on purpose, it can help when there are rests, and such.

In most circumstances when I Jam with people and the music is unfamiliar we tend to use chord charts and/or the Nashville numbering system.

I think one of the problems with learning to read music or tab is. There are so many out there that are wrong. And on purpose. It's an "easier version" or not transcribed to what the studio player actually played. So you know how the song sounds. And when your reading and playing it. Well it doesn't sound anything like that song. So your thinking I must not be able to learn to read music cause it sounds nothing like the song. So it throws up a mental barrier. I've heard that unless you have the original "Lead Sheet " your SOL even then you should pray Tedesco didn't add something LOL !

Great tips and thoughts!

On most instruments all you need is sheet music. Guitar is different. Hammerons. Pulloffs. Slides. Bends. 100 other techniques. Sure.. you can read the sheet music and play a boring slightly off rendition. Or you can read a GOOD tab and nail it. An a isnt always an a. Sometimes its a hammered on A, or bent to a.. etc

I agree with all of the ideas on this video. But I would add that I learned Music Notation because I had a huge inferiority complex about music. But I learned music notation on the piano because it's much easier to learn on the piano, along with music theory. It would make reading music for guitar somewhat easier but there is still the difficulty of hammerons, bends, pulloffs, slides and all that stuff. But I found that in general, learning harmony on the guitar is more difficult than learning harmony on the piano, but once you learn it, it's easy to notice things on the guitar, build chords etc, and understand what you are doing from a music theory point of view.

Good insights Tom, and what I wouldn't have given to be able to slow down the tempo when trying to learn those first songs by ear back in high school! AND the tuning on every song was slightly different and I would have to re-tune my guitar for the Stones songs after figuring out Sunshine of Your Love! Ever try to learn a song off an 8 track?

WOW; yes thank you! How ever, I wish there was more info on converting right handed to left handed. I'm just starting out but doing "air guitar" for years "lefty". I tried to do it right handed, but it was "unnatural".