In the end this will help you develop your own style and by all means you should trust that more than what's on paper.

Use them as a guide, but play what 'feels' and sounds right. But not necessarily as concerned with getting it exactly right as you might be trying to play the song because you love it. In the end, the guy writing the tab is just a guy with a job. So I realized that style could create something that sounded more 'right' that what an accurate notation might be.

'that's nothing like the tab' or 'that's not what they play in the song'. Friends in my band might see me play a cover and be like. or even, that I preferred over the transcription, or even the sound of the original song.Īs a grew older, and developed my own style, it matched more closely the recordings of those artist that I liked and admired, and tabs seemed rigid and stale. I learned that sometimes I could play something totally different that just sounded right. There were nuances they couldn't capture. But even at a young age I realized that tabs didn't always sound exactly right. But tabs were a great way for a young kid to learn fingering without the relative complexity of understanding normal music notation and applying it specifically to guitar. I started playing young (age 7) so my 'ear' developed pretty well. There are a lot of replies here, but I just wanna relate my personal experience with tabs.

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