Sheet Music

Bigval · Post by **Bigval** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:12 pm

Anyone know a site that has free sheet music to popular rock songs so I don't have to go out and buy a song book.

Gnarkiller · Post by **Gnarkiller** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:28 pm

guitar pro and power tab has that shit above the tab boi

Bigval · Post by **Bigval** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:43 pm

Link?

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 6:53 pm

www.google.com

Bigval · Post by **Bigval** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:10 pm

croninburg wrote:www.google.com

I have searched. It brings up sites to buy songbooks.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:18 pm

You must have missed the first ten results or so

http://www.power-tab.net/

Bigval · Post by **Bigval** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:44 pm

croninburg wrote:You must have missed the first ten results or so

http://www.power-tab.net/

(shrug) so this has sheet music on it already?

N/M I figured it out.

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:52 pm

Are you looking for sheet music for guitar/bass or drums? Tab sites ain't going to do shit for you for drums, sadly.

And finding sheet music online for free is next to impossible. I've tried.

BassPhemy · Post by **BassPhemy** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:53 pm

You can turn off the tab and just read the standard notation if you have Guitar Pro.

Bigval · Post by **Bigval** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:57 pm

Pfl?yd wrote:Are you looking for sheet music for guitar/bass or drums? Tab sites ain't going to do shit for you for drums, sadly.

And finding sheet music online for free is next to impossible. I've tried.

I am looking for sheet music for guitar. I have a cheap Peavy electric.

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:33 pm

Bigval wrote:
Pfl?yd wrote:Are you looking for sheet music for guitar/bass or drums? Tab sites ain't going to do shit for you for drums, sadly.

And finding sheet music online for free is next to impossible. I've tried.
I am looking for sheet music for guitar. I have a cheap Peavy electric.

I'm going to set aside my music snob side that says "every musician should read sheet music" and say that tab is the better way to go. I think sheet music is great as a communicative device on guitar or bass to/from other instruments, but tab shows fingerings and positions, which I think it a lot better and more efficient.

Bigval · Post by **Bigval** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 1:38 am

Pfl?yd wrote:
Bigval wrote:
Pfl?yd wrote:Are you looking for sheet music for guitar/bass or drums? Tab sites ain't going to do shit for you for drums, sadly.

And finding sheet music online for free is next to impossible. I've tried.
I am looking for sheet music for guitar. I have a cheap Peavy electric.
I'm going to set aside my music snob side that says "every musician should read sheet music" and say that tab is the better way to go. I think sheet music is great as a communicative device on guitar or bass to/from other instruments, but tab shows fingerings and positions, which I think it a lot better and more efficient.

Well I don't want straight up sheet music. This is what I wanted with this power tab thing. Tab with the notes too.

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:55 am

Bigval wrote:
Pfl?yd wrote:
Bigval wrote:
Pfl?yd wrote:Are you looking for sheet music for guitar/bass or drums? Tab sites ain't going to do shit for you for drums, sadly.

And finding sheet music online for free is next to impossible. I've tried.
I am looking for sheet music for guitar. I have a cheap Peavy electric.
I'm going to set aside my music snob side that says "every musician should read sheet music" and say that tab is the better way to go. I think sheet music is great as a communicative device on guitar or bass to/from other instruments, but tab shows fingerings and positions, which I think it a lot better and more efficient.
Well I don't want straight up sheet music. This is what I wanted with this power tab thing. Tab with the notes too.

ssh · Post by **ssh** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:06 am

Pfl?yd wrote:
Bigval wrote:
Pfl?yd wrote:Are you looking for sheet music for guitar/bass or drums? Tab sites ain't going to do shit for you for drums, sadly.

And finding sheet music online for free is next to impossible. I've tried.
I am looking for sheet music for guitar. I have a cheap Peavy electric.
I'm going to set aside my music snob side that says "every musician should read sheet music" and say that tab is the better way to go. I think sheet music is great as a communicative device on guitar or bass to/from other instruments, but tab shows fingerings and positions, which I think it a lot better and more efficient.

you gotta have both.. especially if you're a singer. or if you're playing a piece of music blind for the first time.. never having heard it played before. do you read sheet music? i learned in school orchestra.. still retain 80% of it.

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 11:32 am

ssh wrote:
Pfl?yd wrote:
Bigval wrote:
Pfl?yd wrote:Are you looking for sheet music for guitar/bass or drums? Tab sites ain't going to do shit for you for drums, sadly.

And finding sheet music online for free is next to impossible. I've tried.
I am looking for sheet music for guitar. I have a cheap Peavy electric.
I'm going to set aside my music snob side that says "every musician should read sheet music" and say that tab is the better way to go. I think sheet music is great as a communicative device on guitar or bass to/from other instruments, but tab shows fingerings and positions, which I think it a lot better and more efficient.
you gotta have both.. especially if you're a singer. or if you're playing a piece of music blind for the first time.. never having heard it played before. do you read sheet music? i learned in school orchestra.. still retain 80% of it.

I can read sheet music, though my sight-reading at a fast tempo isn't too great. As a bassist, I get by just fine with chord charts or lead sheets about 90% of the time. Even if i just know the key, I can manage fairly well.

ssh · Post by **ssh** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:12 am

yeah unfortunately sight-reading for violin and guitar are completely different.. so much that you have to learn it all over again for guitar. but all the theory shit stays the same. i never bothered to learn guitar like that because everythign i play i see in numbers.. multiples of 2 and 3 or 5 and 12.. i think someone like james hetfield said he never learned how to read music because he didn't have to. i'd like to though because knowledge kicks ass. know what i'm sayin?

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:05 am

ssh wrote:yeah unfortunately sight-reading for violin and guitar are completely different.. so much that you have to learn it all over again for guitar. but all the theory shit stays the same. i never bothered to learn guitar like that because everythign i play i see in numbers.. multiples of 2 and 3 or 5 and 12.. i think someone like james hetfield said he never learned how to read music because he didn't have to. i'd like to though because knowledge kicks ass. know what i'm sayin?

Definitely, and it's easier to communicate with other musicians with it. Rock musicians, by nature, almost never need to read music but they generally aren't doing anything that can't be learned from a chord progression or tab for a riff. If you're trying to work with non-rock guys, your offerings of tab as a guideline will be met with confusion or ridicule.

CFH Eternal · Post by **CFH Eternal** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:48 pm

I've learned how important ear-training is since my general understanding of music theory only goes from what I learned on the basics of piano and guitar.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:08 pm

When you're reading for guitar, are you supposed to play an octave higer or something?

BassPhemy · Post by **BassPhemy** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:47 pm

An octave higher than what?

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:58 pm

BassPhemy wrote:An octave higher than what?

An octave higher than the actual notes transcribed? I don't really know what I'm talking about, I'm just having vague flashbacks from when I had a guitar teacher who was teaching me to read..

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:01 pm

croninburg wrote:
BassPhemy wrote:An octave higher than what?
An octave higher than the actual notes transcribed? I don't really know what I'm talking about, I'm just having vague flashbacks from when I had a guitar teacher who was teaching me to read..

Yes, guitar is written an octave above concert pitch because a lot of the open chords would otherwise be written in the middle of the grand staff, so you would have to show both bass and treble clefs if guitar was written to pitch. It's just easier to write everything an octave above and only have to piss with treble clef.

It's even worse for horns that are played a major second or a major sixth lower than written. Playing by ear in a orchestra is pretty much a no-no.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:04 pm

So you're playing an octave lower than a pianist would?

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:12 pm

croninburg wrote:So you're playing an octave lower than a pianist would?

Yeah. That's why all the upper register stuff on guitar sheet music is usually spanned by the "8va" notation. You have to remember, the guitar has a pretty wide range. If you played a guitar as written, you're essentially playing a mandolin! Just throw a capo on the 12th fret.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:36 pm

Well as you've probably guessed, I can't read music

In fact, I haven't even really read a tab in the last couple of months, just rote learned some parts that our sax player wrote, jammed, and written by ear. I've been meaning to take some lessons and theory tests though, I don't know what kind of grading system you have in the states..

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:24 pm

croninburg wrote:Well as you've probably guessed, I can't read music In fact, I haven't even really read a tab in the last couple of months, just rote learned some parts that our sax player wrote, jammed, and written by ear. I've been meaning to take some lessons and theory tests though, I don't know what kind of grading system you have in the states..

Well, I went backwards. I learned everything by ear for years and then later worked on theory and music reading when I started working with more educated musicians. While I can here a Bb and just land on it on a lot of instruments, trying to communicate with people who play keys or whatever is going ot be hampered if you're like "I'm basically jumping from the first string, 5th fret to the third string 9th fret."

It's just easier to say A9.

Gnarkiller · Post by **Gnarkiller** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:36 pm

Pfl?yd wrote:
croninburg wrote:Well as you've probably guessed, I can't read music In fact, I haven't even really read a tab in the last couple of months, just rote learned some parts that our sax player wrote, jammed, and written by ear. I've been meaning to take some lessons and theory tests though, I don't know what kind of grading system you have in the states..
Well, I went backwards. I learned everything by ear for years and then later worked on theory and music reading when I started working with more educated musicians. While I can here a Bb and just land on it on a lot of instruments, trying to communicate with people who play keys or whatever is going ot be hampered if you're like "I'm basically jumping from the first string, 5th fret to the third string 9th fret."

It's just easier to say A9.

yeah true but thats just not metal in any way bra

ssh · Post by **ssh** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:53 pm

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:34 am

Gnarkiller wrote:
Pfl?yd wrote:
croninburg wrote:Well as you've probably guessed, I can't read music In fact, I haven't even really read a tab in the last couple of months, just rote learned some parts that our sax player wrote, jammed, and written by ear. I've been meaning to take some lessons and theory tests though, I don't know what kind of grading system you have in the states..
Well, I went backwards. I learned everything by ear for years and then later worked on theory and music reading when I started working with more educated musicians. While I can here a Bb and just land on it on a lot of instruments, trying to communicate with people who play keys or whatever is going ot be hampered if you're like "I'm basically jumping from the first string, 5th fret to the third string 9th fret."

It's just easier to say A9.
yeah true but thats just not metal in any way bra

Well, it's not like you have to do much more than grunt "palm mute and hit one fret up and six frets up".

PABassPlayer · Post by **PABassPlayer** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:08 am

I finally found some sheet music I can read!!!!!!
Although I'm having some problems with the triplets at the end...

UNGODLIKE · Post by **UNGODLIKE** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:02 pm

PABassPlayer wrote:I finally found some sheet music I can read!!!!!!
Although I'm having some problems with the triplets at the end...

i've been reading musical notation before Pfl?yd even reached pueberty, and this piece makes more sense than his rhetoric