Musicnotes adds free tablature offerings

Thanks, JD!

I would be really excited if I could actually play by TAB. When I started learning, many places advised against learning TAB and just learn to play by note to start with, so thats what I did. I can convert TAB to notes in my head, but not at playing speed, I have to do that one note at a time and write them down.

We play by full sheet music at church, but I actually prefer the shorter "lead sheets" or "chord charts" so I don't have to flip pages. I've made a few of my own chord charts on some songs that are some what faster and have lots of pages to turn.

Actually, I play best by the "Nashville Numbering System" and I convert most of my sheet music to the number system. For one, I simply understand numbers and intervals better than note relations, and also, the number system allows me to move any song into any key and still play it just as easily.

If I ever need it, I could go though the TAB and convert it to the corresponding notes and figure it out that way. That could be helpful. Thanks for that link!
:)

I know that tab is an "easy" way to learn to play, but in the end what do you really know? You know to play "this fret on this string" and "that fret on that string" but it doesn't teach you anything about what makes a chord sound the way it does, or what notes to use in which type of chord. I'm realizing that learning a little theory really helps to be able to improvise and fill in the bare spots.

It may be a little harder at first to learn the chord theory, but it makes it easier in the long run.

Yeah, before I learned the "Nashville" system, to change keys, our leader would say "Just move every note up a step and a half". Yeah, right . . . JUST do that on the fly.

With the numbering system, I can do that. As long as I start in the right key (on the right note), the intervals are in the same relation to each other no matter where I go on the fretboard. Much easier for my brain to understand.