Saturday, March 13, 2010

Are guitar tabs in a band's sheet music?

I am wanting to go into my high school as a jazz guitarist. I haven't been playing long so a little inexperienced. I am wondering if anyone knows that the guitar sheet music has tabs below the regular music with the treble clef. Do they have tabs?Are guitar tabs in a band's sheet music?
When learning jazz, you will have to learn Tritone substitution. If you don't understand Tritone substitution you will not understand jazz sheet notes in any form. So yes there are tabs, but it's just half the story. It'll be vague and if you hear people playing that sheet music you would probably think they were all playing it wrong although they all kind of sound alike.Are guitar tabs in a band's sheet music?
I played guitar in my high school jazz band. Tab is very rare, if ever there. In jazz guitar, you'd be more concerned with charts and notation.


Charts are mostly blank and have the chord changes written in, and you have to ';comp';, which is just playing along with the band, or Freddie Green style, which is basic quarter notes. Literally.


Notation is notes, and that's for little licks and solos.





Get a Real Book, Google Freddie Green and practice, and you'll be well on your way. Good luck :)
They should because that's the only way ive heard f playing guitar is threw taps, if they don't you could always ask your instructor to convert the notes into taps for you or ask around and if a friend and any guitarist could convert them for you.
No, not usually.


Real musicians know how to read notation at speed.





At most for the rythm guitars there may be some chord charts over the lyrics. But those will usually be written in by hand.

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