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Guitar Sheet Music And Guitar Tab… Which One Is Better?
February 16th, 2010 | 
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Being able to read guitar sheet music can prove an invaluable asset in today’s market. We all know that becoming a pro guitarist means entering a very competitive field. You need every advantage you can get, and then some. Before we go any further let’s first answer one basic question: isn’t being able to read guitar tabs good enough? If you’re looking to make a name for yourself or earn a living as a guitar player then the answer would be “no”. This by no means negates the importance of tab, but in a world that is often oversaturated with guitar players, knowing how to read guitar sheet music can make the difference between success and failure. Let’s break things down so we can understand them better.
Guitar Tab
While tablature or tab seems to be a rather recent invention that came along with the electric guitar, the truth is that it has been around for hundreds of years. Even before the invention of the instruments we know today as “guitar”, we see examples of tablature being used usually with fretted instruments such as the lute. Examples of tab in the Western world today date as far back as the 1300’s. In Asia tabs was used even before that.
In today’s world guitar tab is composed of six lines that represent the six guitar strings, four in the case of the bass guitar on which numbers are placed which correspond to the frets on the guitar. Most tabs, tablature, tab formats today do not show you the rhythm. The information presented gives you a clear picture of what strings and frets should be played. The tablature format does not give you information in regards to the notes (pitches) that are being played.
Sheet Music
The sheet music for guitar on the other hand provides you with rhythmic as well as note (pitch) information. This is very important becauseit is like getting a detailed blueprint of a hotrod car. It allows you to see “inside” and understand exactly how the parts work. This is fantastic because you can use this information to fix your hotrod if it breaks down, or build yourself a new one. In much the same way, knowing how to read sheet music allows you to understand and break things down, analyze your favorite artists or composers and use those techniques when building your own material, songs.
The ability to “see” inside the music gives you a huge advantage by allowing you to manipulate and direct the musical flow of your ideas in such a way as to achieve maximum impact. To put it plainly, the ability to understand sheet music will allow you to create and juggle musical ideas with skills far beyond what other musicians posses.
In reality, I don’t think that all can be reduced to a question of guitar tablature versus notation. Traditional guitar sheet music does have its problems when it comes to marking strings and frets to be used. Traditional notation for the guitar does allow for the string to be identified. This, when used in conjunction with the indicated note gives you the fret number. However this tends to fill up the visual space making the notation much harder to read and follow. A combination of sheet music with tablature attached seems to be the best answer. Notation will also allow for the indication of the finger that needs to be used for certain note.
While a combination of notation and tablature will yield the best results, we will focus more on sheet music in this article because of the simple fact that most guitarists know how to read tablature, so it’s the learning of sheet music notation that will set you apart from the rest of the herd.
Learning to read notation… hell or heaven sent
If you understand the benefit of being able to read sheet music but are intimidated by the look and feel of sheet music notation, then take a deep breath and relax because always seem worse than they are. I know the feeling of looking at notation and feeling like you are looking at ancient hieroglyphs. In truth music is not nearly as complicated as it seems at first glance. It just takes a little patience and perseverance to learn but the results are definitely worth it.
You might be thinking that you will never be able to crack the code of notation. Guess I’ll just have to prove to you that it’s not nearly as difficult as you may think by showing you some notation basics right here and now.
Say hello to the musical notes
Sheet music is usually written on staff made up of five lines. You can write notes either on the line or in between the lines. One easy way to remember the notes that are on the lines of the staff is by recalling the following acronym: Every Good Boy Does Fine (E G B D F). This corresponds to the notes on the lines of the staff as read from the bottom up. In order to remember the notes that are in this space is between the lines, just remember FACE (F A C E as read from the bottom up). So now, if you have to tell me what note resides on the fourth space of the staff, as read from the bottom up, you can easily think of FACE and figure out that E is the note we were looking for. There you have it, less than a minute and you already know all the notes that are on the staff. If you just put a blank staff in front of you and quiz yourself over what note lies on a particular line or space, you’ll soon be able to recall them without thinking of the acronyms listed.
Final note
So as you can see learning how to read music is not that difficult, and while it may take a little bit of time to take it all in, the benefits are huge. Stick with it and you will soon see yourself standing head and shoulders above the crowd of guitarists out there.
Ben G. Dressen
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Re: The Climb (Piano Cover) – Miley Cyrus sheet music
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can someone get me the free piano sheet music to this song?
i need the piano sheet music for the song:
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Four Hands for the piano by Franz Liszt
can someone find me a direct link that has the full sheet music for free?
thank you so much!!! :]
Have at it… http://imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/6/67/IMSLP12846-Liszt-Bendel_Hungarian_Rhapsody_-2__duet_.pdf
Found it at IMSLP, a site that has nearly everything public domain, especially for piano… http://imslp.org/index.php?title=Main_Page&_top
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Casey Junior remix
This is a version of Casey Junior, a song from Walt Disney’s 1941 film “Dumbo”. The original song was written by Frank Churchill, with lyrics by Ned Washington.
The object of this assignment was to demonstrate knowledge of what is known as “step recording”, where someone draws in each note or sets things up so that every time a key is pressed on the (piano) keyboard, the note entered into the computer is always the same length (and sometimes velocity/volume). We could choose to either step-record something of our own design, or find some existing sheet music and translate it directly into Cubase. I chose sheet music of “Casey Junior” from “The Disney Collection” songbook, published by Hal-Leonard in 1992.
That’s how this song opens up. A direct transcription of what the sheet music read as, played by the piano. In the background, you can hear a train moving from the left speaker to the right speaker. This is done with automated stereo pan. The train is actually a sound effect that comes with General MIDI.
As the piano part ends, the tamborine comes in, and suddenly you have an electric guitar and bass guitar taking over the exact same parts as the piano played, only with a drumset added. To conclude, the Delay Lama makes a surprise appearance. You only hear him, though. As the song ends, the train passes from the right speaker back to the left again, and it’s all over.
Here are the original lyrics of the song, as given by (and quoted from) the piano/guitar songbook I worked from:
It’s Casey Junior, comin’ down’ the track
Comin’ down the track with a smoky stack.
Hear him puff-in’ ’round the hill
Casey’s here to thrill ev’ry Jack and Jill.
Ev’ry time his funny little whistle sounds. (Toot toot)
Ev’ry body hurries to the Circus Grounds.
Time for lemonade and cracker jack
Casey Junior’s back, Casey Junior’s back again.
Download a MIDI version here: http://dogman15.deviantart.com/art/Casey-Junior-MIDI-147713645
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B2ST Oasis (Piano Cover) w/ sheet music
Sheet music is available!
i just made a direct link to the sheet:
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hope you guys enjoy it!
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i made a couple of mistakes.. send me some vid responses? [: can someone probably play this better than me..
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Hoobastank- The Reason with me playing flute :P
Kk, this is me playing The Reason by Hoobastank.
I’m playing this song on a sorta request for my mate Chris, as its his birthday today, wish him a happy birthday 
Its also a good song for V-Day, which is also today, so yeah, I hope you like it (:
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Sheet Music: (Direct Link opens in Adobe) It is for piano, but just read the top line for what I played (:
http://w3m.t35.com/sheets/Hoobastank-TheReason.pdf
Disclaimer: I do not own this song, and I made it purely as a fan.
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Video Cam Direct UploadPirates of the Caribbean- He’s a Pirate- with me playing flute :)
This is me playing Pirates of the Caribbean- He’s a pirate- on my flute 
Comments and feedback are welcome, and I am also taking requests for songs to play.
Thanks for listening xD
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Sheet Music: (Direct Download)
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I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG, YOUTUBE. I ONLY MADE IT AS A FAN.
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Wicked- Popular with me playing flute (:
This is me playing flute to Wicked’s “Popular”. Music is Original Cast Recording.
Requested by KT and Jayne (:
Enjoy!
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Sheet Music: (Direct Download)
http://www.sheetzbox.com/piano/sheets/download?i=NjUxOQ==
I DO NOT OWN THIS SONG, YOUTUBE. I ONLY MADE IT AS A FAN.
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