Does Tab make me a dweeb...

**line6bassman** · 08-08-2012, 04:54 PM

I'm with Davidb. OH, By the way, DUH!!! What's a dweeb??

**line6bassman** · 08-08-2012, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by slejhamer

We don't get tabs. We don't get music written for bass. We rarely play in the same key as the original. We generally get a chord chart and a vocal melody line. If you can read, you can use passages from the melody to enhance your bass lines, but otherwise it's play by feel. Gotta know the key you are in, the intervals, the chord tones. Tabs? We don't need no stinkin' tabs.

Here have a Tab on me slej!!!

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As a matter of fact, why don't just all of you have some
Tabs on me!!!

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Line6bassman

**Z29R** · 08-08-2012, 07:37 PM

Funny!

As a newbie I find tabs very confusing and would prefer to have music. Maybe since I have read music for many years playing horns. Now, my praise band uses learics with chords written above the words. No music at all. This I'm worried about.

**line6bassman** · 08-08-2012, 08:56 PM

Originally Posted by Z29R

Funny!

As a newbie I find tabs very confusing and would prefer to have music. Maybe since I have read music for many years playing horns. Now, my praise band uses learics with chords written above the words. No music at all. This I'm worried about.

I have a quick question for you and others who may know this question then I'll get to yours because answer maybe kind of wrong when I answer it.

AM I WRONG OR RIGHT ABOUT THIS QUESTION? As far as I can remember when i used to buy sheet music back some time ago and read bass and treble clef, I found that with sheet music with Guitar illustrations on top and with the notes, and bass clef with them, say sheet music for guitar and piano, the bass notes in the bass cleft were not the actually bass
lines of the original song. Am I right or wrong on that? Like they were bass lines for piano. UNLESS. The sheet music was
made for bass and said so. So has anybody noticed that. So if this is true this sheet music would do you no good as a bass player. That's one reason I stopped buying sheet music like this if I remember correctly. It's been quite a long time, so I don't know if I'm correct on this are not.

Now for the question on the praise band. Yes Z29R that's the way I get the charts also, but it's not an issue with me
because I've been playing for awhile and I do what I've learned over the year on this. If you would like and you needed sheet music on church songs you could look in the praise and worship thread on TR called praise charts I believe it or is close to that and you could order them there are you can get your church to help with that. Also the only one in our group who likes sheet music is the Keyboardist to play some lines. Well Z29R, the best to you in your P&W playing.
If you need anything are have any questions on any of the P&W songs, you are welcome to ask away, Are PM me here on TR. I'm glad to help!!
Also if you have any other P&W questions please post then in THE PRAISE AND WORSHIP section of the forum, that's
there to help all in those matters. Thanks

Line6bassman

**Z29R** · 08-08-2012, 10:41 PM

Line6bassman,

I was noticing the same thing about piano music. Anyway, I realize that experience and learning some patterns in various keys will help alot with this.

**slejhamer** · 08-09-2012, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by line6bassman

AM I WRONG OR RIGHT ABOUT THIS QUESTION? As far as I can remember when i used to buy sheet music back some time ago and read bass and treble clef, I found that with sheet music with Guitar illustrations on top and with the notes, and bass clef with them, say sheet music for guitar and piano, the bass notes in the bass cleft were not the actually bass
lines of the original song. Am I right or wrong on that? Like they were bass lines for piano. UNLESS. The sheet music was
made for bass and said so.

That is often the case - esp. in P&W sheet music, but in other genres too - what we tend to get are solo piano arrangements of songs, and the piano player's left hand may or may not have much to do with the song's actual bass line. These piano arrangements predominate, even for songs that have no piano, and little or no keys! And the publishers make it "for guitar" by adding some open chord references; that's it.

I have seen a few full orchestral arrangements where every instrument is broken down, but those are quite expensive and not the norm.

LOL at the TAB soda pics. I hate TAB!

By the way, this is sort of 'on topic' with tabs, or back then the 'diagram with dots that shows you where to put your fingers.' (And a couple great bass players in there!)

**DaveB** · 08-09-2012, 12:36 PM

Brilliant skit!

**DaveB** · 08-09-2012, 12:48 PM

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Dweeb as:

- an unattractive, insignificant, or inept person

Dang! Three shots, three solid hits. I'm going back to my room and sulk.

**Elmeaux** · 08-09-2012, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by DaveB

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Dweeb as:

- an unattractive, insignificant, or inept person

Dang! Three shots, three solid hits. I'm going back to my room and sulk.

I've been sulking in my room since this thread started.