Nice, love it.
Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com
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I'm pretty much self-taught so some of the terms you mentioned are new to me. I like using tabs to learn new music, I fail to see how what you're saying is related to that?
If you're saying to not use tabs but to play by ear I do that too, though I find it a time consuming process and sometimes just want to go by tabs.
Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com
#13This is absolutely awesome. I've been learning guitar since ~15 months now and I strongly dislike the ads and popups in all (most?) of the guitar sites, and this is a perfect simple interface that does the job and doesn't waste time. Great idea and great execution.
PS @kmille I was missing sorting the table, so I took some code off of SO and made a pull request. It isn't using jQuery so it might break some code conventions you have, but I'll be glad to have the sorting feature if you can merge and deploy the new code! Again thanks for ideating and making this.
Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com
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I'm pretty much self-taught so some of the terms you mentioned are new to me. I like using tabs to learn new music, I fail to see how what you're saying is related to that? If you're saying to not use tabs but to play by ear I do that too, though I find it a time consuming process and sometimes just want to go by tabs.
> If you're saying to not use tabs but to play by ear
These are not the only possibilities. A musically-based understanding of the fretboard would let you play directly from sheet music, chord charts or lead sheets. (Classical guitarists do this as a matter of course.)
Of course ear training (what you do when playing by ear) is a big foundation for that skill, but that should not be time consuming, either. A good player should be able to "find" the right note on the fretboard on the spot, not just by trial and error.
> some of the terms you mentioned are new to me
Is solfège new to you also? You know, the old Do-Re-Mi etc. That's something that even most "self-taught" people learn to sing to from childhood, and properly used it can be a great foundation for thoroughly understanding a relative instrument like the guitar.
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#16I’m a fan of chordify[0], much recommended! [0] https://www.chordify.net
+1.
Also Chordie works for me too
Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty much self-taught so some of the terms you mentioned are new to me. I like using tabs to learn new music, I fail to see how what you're saying is related to that? If you're saying to not use tabs but to play by ear I do that too, though I find it a time consuming process and sometimes just want to go by tabs.
> If you're saying to not use tabs but to play by ear These are not the only possibilities. A musically-based understanding of the fretboard would let you play directly from sheet music, chord charts or lead sheets. (Classical guitarists do this as a matter of course.) Of course ear training (what you do when playing by ear) is a big foundation for that skill, but that should not be time consuming, either. A good pla…
- Sheet music: It looks like a completely different language, I don't have an idea of how it works nor can I read it. I can't believe that people can read it without specifically learning it?
- Chord charts: Never heard of this and Google doesn't give me anything relevant either. All I'm seeing are pictures of 6 strings with the frets to play highlighted with a dot symbol. If you mean that, then I think that's even easier than tabs and anyone who can read tabs can read it.
- Lead sheets: Never heard of it either and on googling it looks like sheet music, and I can't read it either.
- Playing by ear: I'm training myself by playing nursery rhymes but admittedly it's slow especially on higher bpm songs where I find it hard to remember or distinguish individual notes. E.g. I recently figured out Amazing Grace, but I know I'm very far away from being able to figure out the solo of Sweet Child o Mine by ear (which I learnt from YouTube). I wish there sequence of recommended tracks for the same, to slowly upgrade the skill of playing by ear.
- Soflege: Haven't heard the term, and I'm not from a western country and we don't use Do-Re-Mi. Though if you mean "scales" (specifically the major scale I guess?), sure I know them, and understand how they are all relative, but again fail to understand how they are related to being able to play a new song on the guitar.
I'm glad to hear your perspective on things because learning music is not something I ever bothered to do until recently, thanks for sharing your thoughts
Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty much self-taught so some of the terms you mentioned are new to me. I like using tabs to learn new music, I fail to see how what you're saying is related to that? If you're saying to not use tabs but to play by ear I do that too, though I find it a time consuming process and sometimes just want to go by tabs.
> If you're saying to not use tabs but to play by ear These are not the only possibilities. A musically-based understanding of the fretboard would let you play directly from sheet music, chord charts or lead sheets. (Classical guitarists do this as a matter of course.) Of course ear training (what you do when playing by ear) is a big foundation for that skill, but that should not be time consuming, either. A good pla…
> would let you play directly from sheet music, chord charts or lead sheets
Are the sites for those less terrible than they are for tabs? The problem here isn't using tabs to learn things, it's that the tabs sites are full of ads and popups (and terrible layouts and all kinds of other things not so easily addressed with an adblocker).
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Guitar tabs have been used for over 500 years. Calling them a "crutch" is incredibly pretentious, they are no less valid than sheet music.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you're saying to not use tabs but to play by ear These are not the only possibilities. A musically-based understanding of the fretboard would let you play directly from sheet music, chord charts or lead sheets. (Classical guitarists do this as a matter of course.) Of course ear training (what you do when playing by ear) is a big foundation for that skill, but that should not be time consuming, either. A good pla…
> would let you play directly from sheet music, chord charts or lead sheets Are the sites for those less terrible than they are for tabs? The problem here isn't using tabs to learn things, it's that the tabs sites are full of ads and popups (and terrible layouts and all kinds of other things not so easily addressed with an adblocker).
IMSLP has some ads and a little nag screen if you aren't a subscriber/contributor, but nothing terrible.