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Doug

Like you I try a bit of everything - tab, notation and chords

I tend to play for my own pleasure so I like to strum a chord progression - indeed most of my posting are about chord progressions. i did a load of posts on strum  patterns a while back.  they had to beg me to stop

and that is indeed  is what chordie is best for. if you want the chord progressions then this is the place. lyrics and chords on one page. all neatly transposed. its a great resource. and i like the people here.

however strumming through an entire set list can get boring.  the ramones sounds rather like Joni mitchell if you just do up down strums.  so i learn the rythym and a couple of fills and the licks. often its just the strum pattern and a minor embelishment. a chord with a pedal note, a bit of damping or a run between chord changes. powertabs is good for that. especially if you want to arrange a piece yourself 

in any case we have the MPA doing a bit of book burning. stopping people sharing tabs. I think thats a bad thing. as a community we have to be aware of that.

tab librarys settled with the MPA and is back on line - but i imagine  it needs visitors to stay free to all. the adverts pay the MPA.  so I expect its a case of use or lose it, folks.     

they'll be coming for the goatskins next

as to notation i learnt piano as a child so i can read music but i can't read chord notation. i tried once. i can recognise a c chord !

but not only are chords tough in notation - but if you are going to play rawk or even pop you probably want to know the position. so many songs are played by sliding down and up the fret board using a barre shape (well they are when I play them !)

however I hate not knowing what key I'm playing in. thats a notation  thing.  tab doesn't give you that. I find knowing the expected chords in  a key is the best aid to memorising the progression.  if youre in the key of C you are likely to  have F and G somewhere. if you don't the songwriters up to something. what is he up to ? is it minor. or has he added a blues chord. those are all aids to memorising the progression.     

cheers

john

Doug

Thanks for that

(I thought I was talking to myself)

I've also tried TuxGuitar which is another rather good tab editor
http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/

that allows you to download tab from Guitar pro sites like this one for those who dont want the expense of buying Guitar pro   
http://www.gprotab.net/

I can't decide which is better TuxGuitar or Powertab. I have not explored their capabilities in depth. I'm not much of a tabber I use them to get access to libraries of good quality tab to help me learn riffs etc. However TuxGuitar is opensource software.  Which means that the Community will probably continue to develop the software.

John

crevs

its a good question

it partly depends on your musical taste

just noodling with scales is usually pretty limiting

i think that you need to learn a few licks or riffs to add some structure to your improvising

however that doesn't mean you have to learn pieces note for note

j

Hendrix mixed the Rythym and lead parts in the Experience

he played chords and injected melody beteen the spaces

there are also some chords closely associated with his sound

see here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrix_chord

excellent

knowing the cycle is  one thing

but how do you commit it to finger memory

Jerome

My question seemed straightfoward at the time. they always do    but perhaps I should have been clearer.

My problem is that I'm practising scale patterns using  a C Blues chord progression on a  backing track  which my tutor gave me

I tried using the C major scale and it was okay but not very bluesy. it was a bit jolly so I tried to remember which scales fitted better with blues

you suggested an 'A minor' and a 'minor Pentatonic'

Just checking you did mean C minor pentatonic not A minor pentatonic

j

Jerome

A minor

and

C minor pentatonic

Is that right ?

John

all the answers here look rights whichs does shows that in music theory there are lots of different ways of looking at the same subject.

I will add one other observation. each of the common scales has 8 notes so G has G A B C D E F# G.   In some cases it might be appropriate to call the last three notes  E Gb G. However that would be  quite confusing because there are then two Gs and no Fs in the scale.  Infact this doesn't happen in the any of the commonly used scales.

Whether it happens in any of the variations or modes I don't know for sure but I doubt it.