Are we really a Laughing Stock?

I think any way you learn something is good and there is always help availabe on chordie to teach you the rudimentry elements of music (chords) and a free program "Powertab" is available on the net to download just googel it up heres the link and its totally free
http://www.download.com/Power-Tab-Edito … 02034.html

Forgive  my blunt-ness but Matt Brown comes across as a  musical snob. It's his way or no way, and that's no way to be in instructing students of art. And yes folks, music is art, 100% art!  There is nothing wrong with tab or people who use it. For someone to say something so absurd and shallow that "people who use tab will be laughed at by real musicians" must indeed be shielding some kind of inferiority within ones' own persona. Hey Matt!, I'm a real musician, a working musician infact, and I'm not laughing.......
  The bottom line is this Headcase; whatever works best for each individual is what's best for said specific individual. Pay no mind to Matt Brown and travel the path of instruction that hits home best  with you in the most effective, comprehensible mode.
  It is not my intent to degrade JamPlay in any way, shape, or form. I'm sure 99.9% of the information and instruction on JamPlay is fantastic. I just have a difference of opinion with Matt Brown regarding this issue.
  Tab on, right on!

Peace and Guitars,
SouthPaw41L(Toney Hall)

Just a thought on what I posted in my earlier post.

Let's suppose that no one had thought of Tab, or a way to show Chords, or a way to represent, the Circle Of Fifths in a forn that could be reprinted in books.  So we are left with ,
Just the Teacher and Learner, and the only way to learn was Music.  As I said in the last post I
would love it if everyone could learn by Music, but there are some who can't, some who don't want to, not in todays fast world.  If you could only buy books to play Guitar by Music,  and
not the ones that say No Need To Learn Music,  where would that leave the numbers of Guitars sold every week, and how many Guitar players whould there be today.
  ( I may be on shakey ground here but I'd say perhaps 50% less than there is now.)
To those who have answered my thread I'm glad to see They feel like I do, it's not how you learn, but the fact that you learned. Even if the only ones to hear you are your friends and family.  Sometimes the Jorney is as important as the Destation.
It might sound crazy, but I feel like the members of Chordie are like family, ok, long lost
members of my family, but you get the point.  We are one large family, and if the rest of the world only talked togather, the way we do, even if sometimes we don't all agree, we don't go to War!!

Luck and Health to all!!!

Sometimes all we need is a nod of the head and a secure Nappy { Diaper }

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrrQwLdME8

Old Doll.

Indeed ! I agree,

LMAO, myself. Headcase can  now sleep like a baby. Sure he hasn't a worry in the world.

Remember those little nodding dogs in the backs of cars { Your probably to young } Well im gonna get  me one of them to keep time and  amuse me as i keep playing !.

Old Doll.

Old Doll,  what can I say the guitar playing was not great, the singing needs some improvement. But that Kid had Moxie as our American Friends would say, give him another few years and who knows where this kid can go.  Beatles' fans eat your heart out.  (He He He)
No, really a good slice of fun at this cold time of year.  Thanks for the Laughts!
As for the nooding dogs, I'm now 63, so my poor old mutt has shaken his last shake along time ago, but I still miss him?

Luck and Health to all!!!

Give a listen to the re-released Johnny Cash album, Live at Folsom Prison.  In it, he performs a song by a young man who's a prisoner there.  The young man had sent the song to Johnny Cash for that purpose.  In the introduction, Johnny Cash mentions that the young man also sent him the sheet music, but he nor any member of his band could read music, so they put their own tune on it.  He did mention that "maybe Helen" could read music. 

So, I suppose if you want to consider Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, and Carl Perkins (who was performing regularly with Cash's band at that time) to be "laughing stocks" of the music world you can.  I wouldn't.  I'd call them "good company."

- Zurf

At the ripe ole age of 47 am past wanting to learn to read music,Ave been bashin` away now for a year using tab or chord layouts .it suits me fine for MY own enjoyment i do hope to improve my playing all in good time or should that be Gods time??;)

Dont stop kid keep Rockin`
                                                  Micky

Dont Stop Kid Keep Rockin'  !!