Re: GRcade Musician's Club - Do You "Do" Music?
Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:47 am
I'm learning Euphoria by Muse. Very convincing tone with an Orange Tiny Terror combo on about 6/10 gain and somewhat bassy on an EMG 85 neck pickup on my Ibanez S series (you want those super hot pickups or P90 style), and an MXR Phase 100, and can pretty much play all of it. When the strawberry float did tab sites get so advanced?? Songsterr is really good. It redirects form mxtabs.net (apparently no relation so they must have bought the domain). I tried that because someone on Ultimate Guitar in 2004 just wrote on a tab for Futurism "this is gooseberry fool" and someone else pimped that domain. I can now see that Ultimate Guitar has something similar.
I haven't bothered learning any in years and never really got into tabs much either (the best it got was PowerTab). Partly because they weren't exactly reliable and were often needlessly difficult to play.
https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/muse-eu ... ab-s517369
But then you get to the insanely fast passages, even the slower arpeggios, arpeggios and compare the performance on YouTube and realise, this is just not tabbed well in terms of what's actually practical to play. And I can play it, I can just tell it's not optimal fretwork.
I mean, even with alternate picking (which since I play fingerstyle I have to do with either tremolo technique or my thumbnail, something I sort of invented) some of those passages are strawberry floating ridiculous at speed. But look at the performance and there's a lot of pull off and descending sequences rather than changing strings which is a much faster (and easier) way to play generally speaking. Then you can just tremelo one or two strings and have limited hand movement.
This is why I never really bother learning online tabs fully - they're generally wrong but get you far enough (and have enough fun along the way) to realise the left fret work in places is just bad technique from whoever wrote it by ear. And then you just wish you had access to the guitarist somehow!
Anyway the main riff is fun and easy to play and it's really a joy with a good trem to mess around with.
A smooth trem and MXR Phase is fuzz and harmonics eat your heart out. After About 15 years I seem to have finally fixed my rattling trem arm holder which was showing up in the tone of records as a distorted buzz for that entire time (fixing it required taking off the entire ZR Trem system which I just couldn't be arsed to do and spend a day setting up the guitar again). Another time I realised the 9V battery was completely flat for years and years which was also introducing terrible distortion. I need to pay more attention to my guitars
It was also nice to find some classical tabs on there too.
I also found this
https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/not-ste ... ab-s485807
I haven't bothered learning any in years and never really got into tabs much either (the best it got was PowerTab). Partly because they weren't exactly reliable and were often needlessly difficult to play.
https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/muse-eu ... ab-s517369
But then you get to the insanely fast passages, even the slower arpeggios, arpeggios and compare the performance on YouTube and realise, this is just not tabbed well in terms of what's actually practical to play. And I can play it, I can just tell it's not optimal fretwork.
I mean, even with alternate picking (which since I play fingerstyle I have to do with either tremolo technique or my thumbnail, something I sort of invented) some of those passages are strawberry floating ridiculous at speed. But look at the performance and there's a lot of pull off and descending sequences rather than changing strings which is a much faster (and easier) way to play generally speaking. Then you can just tremelo one or two strings and have limited hand movement.
This is why I never really bother learning online tabs fully - they're generally wrong but get you far enough (and have enough fun along the way) to realise the left fret work in places is just bad technique from whoever wrote it by ear. And then you just wish you had access to the guitarist somehow!
Anyway the main riff is fun and easy to play and it's really a joy with a good trem to mess around with.
A smooth trem and MXR Phase is fuzz and harmonics eat your heart out. After About 15 years I seem to have finally fixed my rattling trem arm holder which was showing up in the tone of records as a distorted buzz for that entire time (fixing it required taking off the entire ZR Trem system which I just couldn't be arsed to do and spend a day setting up the guitar again). Another time I realised the 9V battery was completely flat for years and years which was also introducing terrible distortion. I need to pay more attention to my guitars
It was also nice to find some classical tabs on there too.
I also found this
https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/not-ste ... ab-s485807