Garage Band Theory Extras!
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The tabs originated in Garage Band Theory: Tools the Pros Use to Play By Ear and these PDF’s are adaptations of the examples that accompany the text.
In the printed book there’s hundreds of examples but usually could only show notation and a guitar tab.
These are the expanded versions – there’s six volumes and each has hundreds of pages of tabs –
banjo, bass, guitar, mandolin and ukulele, notation for everyone else.
These are PDFs and intended to be easily readable on a music stand – large fonts for the chord names and numbers, same for the tabs.
There’s jazz, blues, rock, folk, traditional Irish, bluegrass, nursery rhymes and Christmas songs as well as some Bach & Beethoven – and always shown in more than one key.
There’s scales and chords with exercises, there’s chord charts for lots of well known songs, lots of 4 & 8 bar progressions in different keys.
You can download all of the notation files these PDF’s were made from so you can hear and see them play.
I use MuseScore on my laptop, it’s free and works great for what I do. It’s available for android but I haven’t tried it. There’s also open source MusicXML files, so they’ll play on just about any notation program.
Some of the examples will seem a little weird without the text … but ‘a little weird’ is not unusual for me and they’re OK. Enjoy!
IMPORTANT:
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These downloads do require an email address, but BookFunnel’s system delivers the books without saving the recipient’s email address.
The notation files are delivered by PayHip and you can choose to be added to the mail list or not.
I’ll notify if there are significant edits or updates, and there will also be occasional free promotions that will let you gift the Bundle to friends, but that’s it.
Learning to play by ear requires listening, and with GBT’s MuseScore & MusicXML files, you can listen to all of the examples.
And you do NOT have to be able to ‘read music’ to listen to them.
Put your instrument down, click ‘play’ – and watch and listen. Easy to slow ‘em down, speed ‘em up. Easy to select a section and make it loop when you want to learn it.
There’s tablature for banjo, bass, guitar, mandolin and ukulele
as well as standard notation for keyboards and transposing instruments.
500+ pages for each instrument.
I like MuseScore, it’s free, works great, register and get access to the excellent well moderated forums. https://musescore.org/en
There’s a folder called MuseScore Basics that has instructions for opening a file and a few other functions that are useful for playback and practicing.
MuseScore reviews:
https://www.slant.co/topics/4512/~music-notation-software
https://www.toptenreviews.com/software/home/best-music-notation-software/musescore-review/