I don't even tune my guitar. that's how OUTSIDE OF THE BOX i am. I don't learn anyone else's songs, chord progressions, or even scales! when I hear a jazz song, it sounds so trite to me because they are all up and down the SAME OLD SCALES over and over. jeez, if everyone were as CREATIVE as me the world would be a much better place without all these ARTIFICIAL BARRIERS.
Before the modern Internet, I used a University mainframe to search for Guitar Tabs for a roommate who was learning guitar. Always wondered what happened to that guy, now I know.
This is funny! I haven’t used tabs in years, but I have nothing against them. In my opinion, anything that helps somebody pick up an instrument is worthwhile. Thanks for posting it. It was fun!
I don't know. The thought of making slides in excel seems kind of desperate to me. Merely writing the word PowerPoint, probably gives the writer of the script hives or something.
OK, so I'm a nerd. Now that that is out of the way, you'd be totally amazed at what Excel can do. Yea, you would think you would choose Power Point for slides, but Excel could turn your slides into a relational database. I've seen Excel used as a drum machine, not by me mind you, that's stupid, :) but it can be done.
@@charleswettish8701 I am a fellow dev, EE, and all around nerd. I know that could technically be done in Excel. But it would be like being given the task to write a hello world application in the language of your choice and deciding to come up with the spec for a new programming language, writing a compiler for it, and then make the Hello World application with your new language. And that is all you ever did with it 😂.
@@charleswettish8701 I am a fellow dev l, EE, and all around nerd. I know that could technically be done in Excel. However, it would be like being asked to write a “Hello, World” application using the language of your choice. Instead of picking an existing language you come up with the spec for a new programming language, writing a compiler for it, and then and then make a “Hello, World” application using your new language. And that is all you ever did with it 😂.
That was freaking hilarious! I'm studying classical guitar, and I know a lot of classical guitarists have scoffed at Tab notation in the past, but things are definitely changing. Conventional sheet music can be annotated for guitar to convey most of the guitar specific information. And when it isn't, a lot of pieces for guitar nowadays include traditional notation with the equivalent tab underneath. Adapt or die.
Yeah, let’s face it- even as someone who has been playing since 1997, there are very few times I’ve had to read sheet music. But I started learning by ear almost immediately. I learned Walk Don’t Run by the Ventures as my first song but never tabbed it. Still remember how to play it!
Historically, a lot of early classical music was actually written using tablature for lute and other early string instruments and then only transcribed into staff notation at a later point in time.
The ironic part of the elitism is that tablature predates sheet music and is significantly more helpful for specificity, especially considering that different strings have different timbres and trying to sight read lead lines can mess you up if you needed to be in a different position to play the next part. The only real advantage of sheet music for guitar is it being more universal and being able to play other instrument’s pieces.
OMG, I'm so ashamed... I only just started trying to learn Disco Ulysses off of a tab just last week. I thought I'd get away with it, too, but Cory knew. Cory *always* knows...
This video just kinda whiffs. Who doesn't use tabs at least occasionally? Like what? They're just a tool. Also, young people are going to take this the wrong way. Man your content blows. Guitar players are so weird, imagine a programming youtuber making a skit about being fired for stealing code. This is the weird gatekeepy stuff that makes this often feel like a boomer hobby.
Guitarists used (and preferred) tablature for literally hundreds of years…. Fact. (It’s a more intuitive notation system for guitar, and anyone who disagrees is simply wrong.)
You mean I haven't been getting promoted due to my use of guitar tabs for the past 50 years!?!?? I thought it had something to do with my poor work ethic or belching during staff meetings!! Now I'm gonna have to call my union and get this straightened out!!😁
the feeling when you think the only thing holding you back is your guitar and you're sure getting a PRS would solve everything but you can't justify the 2K price tag so you settle for the next best thing? 😁
I was recently disciplined for laminating my guitar tabs at work...Got a new job, also got a home printer now, too high profile to keep doing that at work.
I feel like chords are a bit different, as long as you don't automatically need supplemental tabs to figure out the finger positions of each chord - you should always know how to structure each chord and it's possible variations.
Tabs suck, specially when you play with other musicians and are constantly trying and experimenting and arranging new stuff. It's a very guitar centeted thing.
I like how you see the unethusiastic clapping from the coworkers' perspective, then the camera flips to Greg's perspective and they are enthusiastically clapping.
I would have said no on the promotion because I’m 100% certain there are better tabs than the one Greg printed on ultimate guitar. Come on Greg, cough up the dough for pro.
You put the slides together in Excel. 🤣🤣🤣 The actors played it so amazing. I don't know where Cory got the guys - they are awesome! Now stop looking at the tabs and writing non-sense comments, go buy Cory's 4th position guitar course academy! Just like I did. 😂
I've been using tab for over thirty years. I even make my own at home and I'm still alive to tell the tale. It's not as harmful as the "experts" would have you believe. I never got a promotion though. 🤔
I've not heard that one, I thought it reminded me of Seven Days in the Sun by Feeder. I guess it's a pretty common progression. There is in fact a playlist here named "I V ii IV" with some amusing items, including two Semisonic tunes from the same album.
oh shit, i always worry about forgetting those print outs on the printer overnight. this week i forgot the printout of the second page of a song (that page was blurry in the full printout) good thing you could not see the title of the song, because it would have been grounds for termination. it was stair way to heaven.
I'm just here to appreciate the sets and 3-point lighting; Top tier for comedy that would probably be just as funny without such high production values, but that is what pushed me over the edge to smash that subscribe button. Great sound too.
When you have 4 E's that are the same pitch but have different timbers because of string thickness Tabs are necessary. The Beef is the author repeating sections that could be shown in one bar and then x7 or whatever it is. (especially whole album song books, but I guess that is to make it a Book and not a pamphlet). Boss was hot, and the way he held the pick..... 7 years, really...
I caught my coworker playing his ocarina in the bathroom stalls. I was like "Ew. Dude. Everyone knows you're supposed to play the Mayan Death Whistle. Fkn gross." 🤨
I view it like this....There hundreds, if not thousands of Famous, Brilliant, Awesome musicians fromt the past to present, & they were NEVER able to read music, or write it in the standard notation, & were extremely successful. So what difference does it make how one learns, practices, & executes the playing of MUSIC?
So, as a Greg myself, my boss found some chord charts with tabs I had printed off for a couple of Pink Floyd songs I was too lazy to transcribe myself when I was involved in a Pink Floyd tribute band. In my case, it was DEFINITELY about the printer.
Guitar tabs are intuitive. Except when there are 8 versions of the same song, in different chord progressions It’s also nice because you can adjust each string- But when you see something like 15-15-16-14-c-c, it makes you wonder if there is a better way…
I understand the use because it´s easy, but one should only use them for specific part which are complex or too fast, not as a whole sheet. If you are learnin for example Al di Meola piece..go for it, but once you embrace the part you can remember it by ear. If you only learn music from tabs you will never be able to get the point. And teachers that promote tabs should not be teaching, especially kids.
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all year! As an engineering manager, I wouldn’t promote somebody who uses tabs either. (Of course, it’s a good thing that the VP who promoted me didn’t know about my dirty little tab secret…)
Contact your local Department of Labor board and/or your local OSHA rep if this ever happens, workplace discrimination due to a disability is illegal in all 50 states. Seems like an open and shut case to me.
I hope people get the dig on guitar elitists who say using tabs means you are not a guitarist since the office analogy is pretty apt in context. But based on the comments. NOPE! they think it is supporting them and their narcissism.
This is funny! 😂 i also find it funny that the hurrian hyms are basically a form of tablature. I wonder if they also suffered the stigma of using a sensible instrument specific musical notation 🤣
My analogy is I'm like an actor learning lines, I dont know how to write plays or screenplays. But I could convince you I'm a musician and not just a guitar player but the wide range of material I can play because I know songs from Tab.
