Avoid Tab If Possible

[James Crowbear]

this is a quote from Paul Franklin :
Tab vs music notation.....I'll say one great thing about tablature, the simplest way to get someone started playing a steel guitar is the best for the moment. The existing tabs easily jump that hurdle.......

Bo, I love the type of tab you use except for this fact.......A student would have to learn how to read to understand the notation part. Why not just teach him to read on the PSG and be done with it?

Learning by accepting Tab as the method, means students learn one specific way to play the notes, not always the best position choices. Whereas, if it were just written in notation, a player would be forced to find the easiest, or best sounding positions for the notes. The positions found would be chosen according to their ears and knowledge of the notes on the fretboard, which may not be the positions written in the tabbed part....That's a good thing because students are forced to dig deeper to learn how the instrument is played. I believe reading music notation alone would help to break their dependence on someone else for fretboard knowledge......At least that's my experience with reading notation.

got it here :
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1929392#1929392

[Ken Byng]

I like Basil's suggestion of a dual tab/notation approach. It makes real sense.

[Basil Henriques]

That's the way I do all my tab Ken..Always have done..

[Ken Byng]

[b]this is a quote from Paul Franklin :
Tab vs music notation.........The positions found would be chosen according to their ears and knowledge of the notes on the fretboard, which may not be the positions written in the tabbed part....That's a good thing because students are forced to dig deeper to learn how the instrument is played. I believe reading music notation alone would help to break their dependence on someone else for fretboard knowledge......At least that's my experience with reading notation................

James
The point that Paul makes is what I was trying to make in my earlier post except that I was referencing my post about playing by ear. In actual fact, there are not many people who could score out genuinely authentic pedal steel notation because it requires someone who fully understands the capability of a pedal steel and its tunings, with some notes within chords moving up or down. (Basil H is one of those few). That's why virtually all sessions that I have done over the years have just been via chord charts, when most other instruments have had their parts written.

[Basil Henriques]

Right on Ken...And.. even without pedals tab can be instructive if nothing more than to learn runs in new positions.
An example of my non pedal tab:-







and

as well as these other versions Click Here

Over the years I've tabbed a lot of Hawaiian and lap steel tunes/songs.
Here's the list of just the ones I did for our magazine:-

TAB: SELECT ALL
Dec-02		Blue Hawaii Waltz			C		A6
Feb-03		Carefree				D/Eb/G		E6
May-03		Sleepy Lagoon				C		C6
Aug-03		San Antonio Rose			G		C6
Nov-03		Sweet Leilani				F		A6
Feb-04		Pearly Shells			        F#/G		E13
May-04		Moon of Manakoora			F		E6
Aug-04		Blue Hawaii				Bb		E13
Nov-04		To andy Iona				C		C6/A7
Feb-05		Sand (Pt.1)				C		B11
May-05		Sand (Pt.2)				C		B11
Aug-05		Mapuana					D		B11
Nov-05		Moon over Miami			        F		E13
Mar-06		Adventures in Paradise		        C		E13
Jun-06		Aloha Nui Loa la Oe		        Bb		E6
Sep-06		On the Beach at Bali Bali	        G		C6/A7
Dec-06		Don't Sing Aloha			G		E6
Mar-07		Sleep Walk				C		E6
Jun-07		Pagan Love Song			        C		E13
Sep-07		Happa Haole Hula Girl		        G		C6
Dec-07		Million Moons over Hawaii	        G		E13
Mar-08		My Tane					F		E13
Jun-08		The Keli Manu Waltz		        F		C6/A7
Dec-08		Sophisticated Hula			Bb		C6/A7
Mar-09		Goodbye Hawaii			        G		E13
Jun-09		Island Moon				F		C6/A7
Sep-09		Sweet Georgia Brown		        Ab		C6
Dec-09		Out on the Beach at Waikiki	        Bb		B11
Mar-10		Blue Hawaii (B.I. Version)	        C		C6/B11
Jun-10		A Song of Old Hawaii		        G		E13
Sep-10		Pretty Red Hibiscus			Eb		C13
Dec-10		Sweet Hawaiian Kisses		        F		C13
Mar-11		Mauna Kea (Pt.1)			D		C13
Jun-11		Mauna Kea (Pt.2)		        G-Eb    	C13
Sep-11		King's Serenade			        G	        C13
Dec-11		Blue Tahitian Moon			F		C13

[Basil Henriques]

Alternatively :-





Some prefer the tab ABOVE and others like it below !

[Basil Henriques]

This is tab with pedals (Not E9th):-

Pan-Handle Rag


White Ginger Blossoms

[Basil Henriques]

Where's our "Springy Thingy" from Shrewsbury gone to ? I was looking forward to good tête-à-tête .