Sheet music of complete songs from which Tony improvises to provide educational

[petelanger]

I personally have a subscription to Ultimate Guitar. I signed up when it was $24.99 for an annual subscription. I believe they run that special regularly. They usually have upwards of 10 TABs for every song you can imagine, each with a difficulty and quality rating.

[danalsimongmail-com]

Pete: Thank you for this tip. I will look into it. I am very appreciative of this Ultimate Guitar source. It is reassuring to know that some members actually not only read but respond to other members’ needs or questions.

[albert_d]

Same here. I’ve used Ultimate Guitar for so long I forgot the name of the app and had to open it to find out. Once in a while I google and buy a tab sheet or buy a book from Acoustic Guitar but those are “destination arrangement” purchases of a piece I have heard and really like.

• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by  albert_d.

[jumpinjeff]

One of the happiest of unexpected results of learning how to play guitar on TAC rather than learning how to play songs is, in time, the need to see the music for the songs others have written diminishes. For most things I don’t need to see a chord chart or a song sheet. This is a deliberate part of the TAC program, often missunderstood and overlooked. This did take time for me to grasp which I want to point out. It was not an overnight transition rather a multi-year effort of daily exposure to the challenges and FretBoard Wizard. I used Chordie because there are no sales pitches, no commercials, no interruptions, no membership fee. Now I go there to see words and how the words meet the chord changes, not always successfull as very few of the songwriting artists are contributors. One of the stand out contributors is James Taylor who was tired of seeing/hearing his music being played “Close but no cigar”.

[Carol-3M-Stillhand]

Very nicely stated, @jumpinjeff I agree 110% with your assessment of things.

I think we are learning not only how to play guitar, but more importantly, how to teach ourselves to learn even more guitar and how to play songs without being dependent on other people’s TABs and arrangements. I think that takes a little while to realize but I came to that same conclusion too. (Just celebrated my 10th TACiversary last week!!)

Be well, my friend!! C

[jumpinjeff]

Love to you and Happy happy congratulations. It has been an epic journey and I am beyond grateful to shared the road with you. I am lucky.

[danalsimongmail-com]

Hello JumpinJeff: Don’t know if you’re related to Jumpin Jack Flash but I really do appreciate your responses based obviously on a long history of experience with TAC. I find TAC mesmerizing and fun. Hopefully over time I will be able to realize what you are speaking of when the educational and practice diversity of the things we learn via Tony and TAC begins to really sink in and I can apply these with greater focus and ability. It is this kind of feedback that is very helpful and encouraging. Thank you.

[jorgemac]

I belong to Songster and chordify. Chordify is great for a general feeling of how a song was originally sung and later interpretations but doesn’t break a song down, to actually how to play that tune. Songster is more specific, more note to note interpretations of a song. with fewer lyrics included. It took me along time to learn how to use Songster but now I use it often to help me get started on how a song is put together. It has a free section and a monthly fee section that is very helpful, if you take the time to learn how to use it. That being said you still have to put in the guitar practice time to learn the tunes.