Archive for June 13th, 2010
Today’s kid want to take shortcuts when it comes to playing electric guitar. When my daughter started to play bass guitar she informed me that on the Internet there is a thing called Tabs that teaches you the notes on what ever song you look up.
After examining these Tabs I found them to be useful, especially if you already now the basics of playing guitar. What I also found is that young people trying learn music are actually cheating themselves, by this I mean you might be able to play what is written in tabs but when a song comes on the radio that you want to play it is very difficult to pick that song up.
It doesn’t matter what kind of electric guitar package you are trying to play if you don’t know the basics it will sound choppy. Take me, I learned to play bass early age with the help of an instructor and books. I learned cord configurations which help me to this day, when I hear a song on the radio I can usually pick it up right away because of the basics I have learned.