http://www.metafilter.com/tags/tablature Posts tagged with 'tablature' at MetaFilter. Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:46:52 -0800 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:46:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/67879/Tablature%2Dgoes%2DWeb%2D20 <a href="http://tabs.guitarworld.com/">Guitar World Tabs</a> ain't <a href="http://olga.net/">OLGA</a>, but it's something. Some other great guitar tab resources include <a href="http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/tab.html">Harmony Central</a>, <a href="http://www.rockmagic.net/">Rock Magic</a>, <a href="http://fretplay.com/">Fretplay</a>, and the <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Instruments/Stringed/Guitar/Tablature//">Open Directory index to the topic</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.67879 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:46:52 -0800 guitar rawk tablature jbickers http://www.metafilter.com/65928/A%2Dwelldone%2DThe%2DBand%2Dfan%2Dsite <a href="http://theband.hiof.no/">The Band</a> is one of the more user-friendly fan sites I have come across. What I appreciate most is the (unadvertised) <a href="http://theband.hiof.no/lyrics/index.html">chord charts</a>. They are not always right but they are often not wrong. Subtle, theatrical chromaticism, your name is <strike>Mozart</strike> Robbie Robertson. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65928 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:21:13 -0800 charts guitar music tab tablature theband St Urbain's Horseman http://www.metafilter.com/64392/Get%2DLaid%2DMore%2DOften <a href="http://justinguitar.com/">Learn to Play Guitar!</a> Justin, of JustinGuitar.com (not the <a href="http://justin.tv">dork with the TV camera</a> strapped to his head) offers over <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=JustinSandercoe&p=r">100 free video </a><a href="http://uk.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=JustinSandercoeSongs&p=r" title="the ones where he teaches you to play copyright protected songs are all hosted on a different account">guitar lessons</a> for absolute noobs &amp; guitar enthusiasts, with lesson categories &amp; written instrx as well. For people who want tablature to play along, the good people of <a href="http://www.guitarvideotabs.com/">Guitar Video Tabs</a> provide full tab notation under videos hundreds of popular songs. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.64392 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:26:31 -0800 education guitar guitarlessons instructions instrx lessons onlinelearning tablature jonson http://www.metafilter.com/54765/Bob%2DDylan%2DAnnnotated%2Dand%2DTablaturated Artur J's <a href="http://republika.pl/bobdylan/lat/" title="'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.' - The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism T.S. Eliot">Annotated Lyrics of Bob Dylans Love and Theft</a> has expanded and now features Annotated lyrics for <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/streetl/index.html" title="Street Legal comes the closest to where my music is going, you know. It has to do with an illusion of time, I mean, what the songs are necessarily about is the illusions of time.- Bob Dylan 1978">Street Legal</a>, <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/kol/" title="'I’m thinking about calling this album Knocked Out Loaded. Is that any good, you think, Knocked Out Loaded?' - Bob Dylan 1986 (to Mikal Gilmore">Knocked Out Loaded</a>, <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/ohmercy/index.html" title="'Most of [Oh Mercy songs] are stream-of-consciousness songs; the kind that come to you in the middle of the night, when you just want to go back to bed.'- Bob Dylan, 1989">Oh, Mercy</a> and <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/mt/index.html" title="'I'd make this record no matter what was going on in the world. I wrote these songs in not a meditative state at all, but more like in a trancelike, hypnotic state. This is how I feel? Why do I feel like that? And who's the me that feels this way? I couldn't tell you that, either. But I know that those songs are just in my genes and I couldn't stop them comin' out.' - Bob Dylan 2006">Modern Times</a>. And he is already on top of Dylan's quotes of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/arts/music/14dyla.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin" title="But maybe you've heard his words, if you're one of the 320,000 people so far who have bought Bob Dylan's latest album, 'Modern Times,' which made its debut last week at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart. It seems that many of the lyrics on that album, Mr. Dylan's first No. 1 album in 30 years (down to No. 3 this week), bear some strong echoes to the poems of Timrod, a Charleston native who wrote poems about the Civil War and died in 1867 at the age of 39. ">Henry Timrod</a> on the new album. On a related tip, someone waved a lawyer at Eyolf &#0216;strem, so he removed all his tabs from his Dylan tablature site, <a href="http://www.dylanchords.com/" title="My Back Pages Bob Dylan - Chords and lyrics - For chords, go to one of the mirrors. The rest you may still find here">My Back Pages</a>. But, fortunately there are some mirrors and the blog of <a href="http://dylanchords.info/" title="Aug 26: Didn’t I say it? And it was so. I was going to wait until the official release date, but since a) I am going away for a week, and b) most people seem to have it already, I figured: why wait any longer? Modern Times it is.">this one</a> has a tab page for Modern Times already. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.54765 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:02:18 -0800 BobDylan Dylan HenryTimrod lyrics music tablature Timrod y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/45137/Dark%2DWas%2DThe%2DNightCold%2DWas%2DThe%2DGround%2Dby%2DBlind%2DWillie%2DJohnson Ry Cooder once said <a href="http://www.commongroundmag.com/2005/cg3204/journeys3204.html" title="'Dark Was the Night' is a 'moan.' A moan is simply a style of wordless singing. And since it is a lament without words, we are left to wonder about the singer’s personal story, experiencing only his pain. Johnson’s 'Dark Was the Night' moan is both gorgeous and eerie at the same time as the sliding notes on the guitar strings chase and match the singer’s haunting, wordless vocals."><em>Dark Was The Night--Cold Was The Ground</em></a> was <em>the most soulful, transcendent piece of American music</em> recorded in the 20th Century. <em>Unearthly</em> and <em>music of the spheres</em> were common descriptions long before both became fact when it was included on a golden record was affixed to the star bound <a href="http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html" title="The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim.">Voyager</a> space probe. My first encounter with <em>Dark Was The Night</em> was while watching, and then listening to the soundtrack album of, Piero Paulo Pasolini’s <a href="http://www.glyphs.com/words/film/95/stmatt.html" title="Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian filmmaker who was also a poet, essayist, marxist and homosexual. But he was in all things an outsider. He was shunned by the Catholic bourgeoisie for his marxist views and his homosexuality. The marxists shunned him for not toeing the line in his philosophy. And his writings on film and literary theory were often dismissed by the intelligentsia because of his lack of academic credentials and a perceived lack of rigor in his work..."><em>The Gospel According To St. Matthew</em></a>--or as it is known in Sicily kickin' Bootsville, <em>Il Vangelo de Matteo</em>--which is, in my humble opinion, the Greatest. Jesus. Movie. Evar. Ironically, coincidentally and serendipitously, it was an apt choice by Pasolini, as the <a href="http://www.cptryon.org/xpipassio/hymns/dark.html" title="Dark was the night, and cold the ground/On which the Lord was laid;/His sweat like drops of blood ran down;/In agony he prayed ">hymn</a> from which <a href="http://austin360.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=State+of+the+Blues%3A+The+Soul+of+Blind+Willie+Johnson&expire=&urlID=7713431&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.austin360.com%2Fmusic%2Fcontent%2Fmusic%2Fblindwilliejohnson_092803.html&partnerID=540" title="Johnson's haunting masterpiece 'Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground)’’ was chosen for an album placed aboard Voyager 1 in 1977 on its journey to the ends of the universe.... Should aliens happen upon the spacecraft and, with the record player provided, listen to that eerie, moaning, steel-sliding memorial to the crucifixion, they will know almost as much about the mysterious Blind Willie Johnson as we do.">Blind Willie Johnson</a>'s wordless moan derives is a song about Christ’s passion—his suffering and crucifixion. (Continued with much more within) tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.45137 Thu, 15 Sep 2005 04:12:36 -0800 blindwilliejohnson blues bottleneck gospel interplanetary moans music ParisTexas Pasolini rycooder slideguitar sublime tablature transcendent Voyager y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/42424/Does%2Dyour%2Ddog%2Dhave%2Dfleas <a href="http://www.geocities.com/~ukulele/">Brudda Bu's Ukulele Heaven</a> has excellent info on ukulele creation and history. If you want to play, you can learn all of your chords at <a href="http://www.ukulelestrummers.com/ ">Ukulele Strummers</a>. If you are looking for some easy songs, try <a href="http://www.alligatorboogaloo.com/uke/tabs2.html"> Ukulele Boogaloo</a> for an eclectic songbook with tablature right on the page. <a href="http://www.beatlesite.info/">Ukulele Beatles Fun</a> provides strum-along Beatles tunes in a flash app. Finally, for the more advanced, <a href="http://www.rockslide.org/Ukulele_Tab.html">Dominator</a> provides beautiful transcriptions of songs (scroll down) by artists like <a href="http://www.herbohtajr.com/">Herb Ohta</a> and <a href="http://www.jakeshimabukuro.net/">Jake Shimabukuro</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42424 Tue, 31 May 2005 13:51:27 -0800 tablature ukulele Roger Dodger http://www.metafilter.com/35788/Casey%2DJones%2DStagolee%2DFrankie%2Dand%2DJohnny%2DMurder%2Dand%2DDeath%2DBallad%2DBack%2DStories <a href="http://www.dylanchords.com/" title="A comprehensive site with chords to the songs from Bob Dylan's albums, as well as outtakes, live versions, covers, alternate lyrics etc.">My Back Pages</a>--Interesting in his own right <a href="http://www.teol.ku.dk/kulturarv/Research_fellows/Eyolf_A.htm" title="Autobiography of Eyolf &#0216;strem">Eyolf &#0216;strem </a>still maintains the fan's fan tab, chords and music site, the standard by which all others are judged. I just revisited it the other night, while trying to recall how that little run in Dylan's version of <a href="http://www.dylanchords.com/36_wgw/delia.htm" title="Delia - Traditional, arranged by Bob Dylan, Released on World Gone Wrong (1993), Tabbed by Eyolf &#0216;strem">Delia</a> went, and dang, if it didn't have the <a href="http://www.dylanchords.com/36_wgw/ballad_of_delia_green.htm" title="The Ballad of Delia Green and Moses "Cooney" Houston - A murder tale in three posts">back story</a> of that ballad. I love this kind of stuff. The source of that account, John Garst, is the folklorist king of such research--he puts <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/john_henry/alabama.html" title="Garst, John. Chasing John Henry in Alabama and Mississippi: A Personal Memoir of Work in Progress, Tributaries: Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association Issue No. 5, 2002, pp 92-129">John Henry</a> at a railroad tunnel near Leeds, Alabama, just east of Birmingham on September 20, 1887, for example. Murder and heroic death ballad back stories are of extreme interest to me, so I decided to post a few more here: <a href="http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/master/frankie4.html" title="Another basis for the origin is the murder of Allen Britt (''Al Britt''= ''Albert'') by Frankie Baker in St. Louis, MO, on Oct. 15, 1899 (she was jealous of his relationship with Alice Pryor). Frankie Baker shot Allen ''Al'' Britt in St. Louis on Sunday, October 15, 1899. He died two days later. The song was ''Frankie and Albert'' until a popular arrangement by the Leighton Brothers and Ren Shields was published in 1912. Evidently they though ''Albert'' to be too sedate and replaced "him" with ''Johnny.'' It is easy to see how ''Al Britt'' quickly became ''Albert.''">Frankie and Albert</a>, <a href="http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/master/frankie1.html" title="It is interesting to note that the tune of the barroom ballad ''Frankie and Johnnie'' appeared in a popular song of 1904. ''He Done Me Wrong,'' written by Hughie Cannon, the white ''black-face'' comedian who wrote ''Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home.'' It was a sort of sequel to ''Bill Bailey'' and deals with his death. The words bear no resemblance to ''Frankie and Johnnie'' except the line ''He done me wrong''. In 1908 the Leighton Brothers wrote ''Bill You Done Me Wrong,'' similar to Cannon’s song, but using the words ''He was my man, but he done me wrong.'' In 1912 the Leighton Brothers and Ren Shields collaborated on a fairly authentic version of ''Frankie and Johnny'' that could be presented to the public. For those who think that ''folk music'' is better than Tin Pan Alley music, there is a folk music version of the tune in ''My Baby In A Guinea Blue Gown'' in R. Emmet Kennedy’s book ''Mellows.'">Frankie and Johnny</a>, <a href="http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/kcj.html" title="''Trouble ahead, trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind'' - The Annotated ''Casey Jones'' - An installment in The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics.By David Dodd, Research Associate, Music Dept., University of California, Santa Cruz ">Casey</a> <a href="http://www.bubbaguitar.com/articles/caseyjones.html" title="From the old-time country music newsgroup, Casey Jones By John Garst - ''Casey Jones, the Brave Engineer,'' was published in 1909 by T. LawrenceSeibert (words) and Eddie Newton (music). The cover calls it the ''Greatest Comedy Hit in Years'' and ''The Only Comedy Railroad Song.'' The text, set to a sprightly tune, tells a story of the death of engineer Casey Jones in a train wreck.">Jones</a> and <a href="http://www3.clearlight.com/~acsa/stagroot.htm" title="Stagger Lee - Stag-O-Lee - Stagolee - Stack-A-Lee - Stack O'Lee">Stagger</a> <a href="http://www.stagoleeshotbilly.com/" title="''Stagolee,'' writes Brown, ''is a metaphor that structures the life of black males from childhood to maturity.'' He compares the ''bad black hero'' to PuffDaddy, O.J. Simpson, Malcolm X, Huey Newton (for all their differences). He traces the transformation of the song from ballad to blues, from pool hall to riverboat to work camp to Broadway. Brown, who grew up on the myth in the 1950s and '60s on a tobacco farm in North Carolina, reconstructs the very night when Lee Shelton dressed like a pimp in St. Louis flats and a ''high-roller, milk-white Stetson'' -- with an embroidered picture of his favorite girl on the headband -- wandered into the Bill Curtis Saloon in the Bloody Third District. Brown's reconstruction of the bordello culture in St. Louis is reminiscent of fin de siecle Vienna, portraying a kind of hysteria that played out on the stage and in the streets.">Lee</a>. Did I say I love this kind of stuff? tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35788 Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:56:34 -0800 Americana Ballads Dylan Folk Legend Murder MurderBallads Music Tablature y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/28085/Acoustic%2DJazz%2Dand%2DSwing%2DJug%2Dand%2DString%2DBand%2D101 <em>How To Be A Jug or String Band MVP</em> - starting with guitar: It's all in <a href="http://www.endprod.com/tab/tabs_nf.htm" title="Guitar Tablature Explained ">tablature</a>, by the way, something easy enough to understand. Three finger fingerpicking guitar is easy to learn--start with <a href="http://plaza.ufl.edu/max74/mjhtab.html" title="Mississippi John Hurt Guitar Tab Book">Mississippi John Hurt</a>: <a href="http://plaza.ufl.edu/max74/tab/payday.txt" title=>Payday</a> was the first song I ever learned. Of course, it's a cinch, being in Open D--but <a href="http://www.acousticfingerstyle.com/opentune.htm" title="Open Tuning Tutorial from Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar.Com ">open</a> <a href="http://www.marymccaslin.com/tunings.htm" title="Selected Guitar Tunings From Mary McCaslin">tunings</a> are a cinch, too. With open tunings, how about learning some <a href="http://www.rostock.igd.fhg.de/private/kugraw/slidingzone.html" title="Kay-Uwe Graw's Sliding Zone is the best for slide">slide guitar</a>? Beyond John Hurt, slide or not, open or standard, , there are the ever expanding <a href="http://www.johnfahey.com/Tablatures.htm" title="There's about 50 odd songs here">Fahey Tablatures</a> at John Fahey.com, where Melissa keeps the flame burning ever brightly. <br><em>There's Much More Within...</em> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.28085 Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:06:51 -0800 Authoritative awesomest Comprehensive DIY EVAR Exhaustive Folk Instruction Music post Tablature y2karl