Keyboard tabs ?

[joethebaddog]

Hey folks.
I'm a relative newbie at keys and I've always played other stuff by ear. Is there such a thing as "keyboard tablature"? If so, can anyone give me a link?
Thanks.

[SKYflyer]

Believe it or not, there is a whole language that musicians have to learn to read.
Learn how to read music, like on a staff with notes and stuff on it.

[punkin]

Become one with the Grand Staff...it really is a tab for keyboard but it's just doesn't have all 88 lines and spaces. It's a lot easier than you think.

[bennychico11]

closest thing to tab you'll find is chord changes....and of course the staff

[allrics]

This page might help you:
http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/

[joethebaddog]

To allrics ; Thank you! That site will be a big help.

To SKYflyer ; People like you just can't resist being an ass any chance they get. Good luck with high school !

[fraserhutch]

Originally Posted by joethebaddog

To allrics ; Thank you! That site will be a big help.

To SKYflyer ; People like you just can't resist being an ass any chance they get. Good luck with high school !

Actually, I liked his reply! It was spot-on.

[bsr2002]

Originally Posted by fraserhutch

Actually, I liked his reply! It was spot-on.

I booked marked this page in my "Cool Stuff" folder

[crgl]

Originally Posted by joethebaddog

Hey folks.
I'm a relative newbie at keys and I've always played other stuff by ear. Is there such a thing as "keyboard tablature"? If so, can anyone give me a link?
Thanks.

The best tablature for keyboard is, obviosly, the Grand Staff. Unfortunately, not many people that play the keyboard know to read music nor write it and unfortunately if people know how to write their transcriptions, not many will post it on the web. The other things is that the only way that you can get music transcriptions of songs from the web is through people that use music editor programs and post it as PDF files. This files use much space ( in comparison with guitar tablatures ).

If what you are trying to do is learn "songs" that you have heard using other people's transcriptions, like in the case of guitar tablature this is what you have to do:

1. First, learn to read notes on the staff

2. Search for a good midi file of the song you want to learn to play.

3. open it in a program that lets you put your midi file into notes
( like Cakewalk ), and that's it.

in this way you will know the notes that are played in a song and learn to play it.

note: this assumes that you will figure out when to play every note on the staff because you have heard and know the song.

Hope this helps you.

[SKYflyer]

Originally Posted by joethebaddog

To allrics ; Thank you! That site will be a big help.

To SKYflyer ; People like you just can't resist being an ass any chance they get. Good luck with high school !

>_<;;

hehe, i didnt mean to come off so mean as i seemingly may have, i merely meant to sound a touch snappy, but anyways, good luck learning all this

[thane1200]

Every Good Boy Does Fine????
Fat Asses Cannot Excercise???

[thane1200]

Seriously though this may be helpful.
happynote

[ilikecheese]

I've always found that using the number system works much better than the staff. I know how to read a staff, but I very rarely use it. Instead of seeing a staff I would rather see:
Key of F
6 4 1 7b

That's just me though

[zook250]

some gp4 files(guitar pro 4) have keys included. i play bass in a 80's metal cover band and i needed some keyboard parts, i found them at www.mysongbook.com. they have 115,000 gp4 tabs.

[crgl]

Originally Posted by zook250

some gp4 files(guitar pro 4) have keys included. i play bass in a 80's metal cover band and i needed some keyboard parts, i found them at www.mysongbook.com. they have 115,000 gp4 tabs.

that's right...a very good site that I happened to discover just past week.

I is guitar oriented though...

[Alexbt]

It's unfortunate that more people don't transcribe for keyboards.

It is much harder to do than other instruments though, because of the number of possible notes that can occur.

Many of the transcriptions I've seen online are quite incorrect, printouts of bad midis and so on.

What's sucky is that guitar players can go online and get good transcriptions as tabs, where keyboard players are often required to go to a store (music store, online store, etc.) to buy a book that could either be spot on, or something a 5 year old could play.

[tuggy]

Originally Posted by Alexbt

It's unfortunate that more people don't transcribe for keyboards.

It is much harder to do than other instruments though, because of the number of possible notes that can occur.

Many of the transcriptions I've seen online are quite incorrect, printouts of bad midis and so on.

What's sucky is that guitar players can go online and get good transcriptions as tabs, where keyboard players are often required to go to a store (music store, online store, etc.) to buy a book that could either be spot on, or something a 5 year old could play.

yeah, i'm really jelaous about guitar players and their vast resources on WWW. wish we had more stuff to share.

[tuggy]

BTW,
forget that tab stuff, that won't take you anywhere. learn to read music. it's a lot more simpler than it seems.

[fraserhutch]

Originally Posted by Alexbt

What's sucky is that guitar players can go online and get good transcriptions as tabs, where keyboard players are often required to go to a store (music store, online store, etc.) to buy a book that could either be spot on, or something a 5 year old could play.

Man, ya gotta learn to transcribe. I haven't bought sheet music in years.

[ilikecheese]

powertabs.net has some keyboard stuff, but it's usually arranged for guitar. It has a music staff above the guitar tabs that shows the notes, and you can even hear it with the program's crappy midi sounds. My suggestion though is just to train your ear, and learn how to play it by listening.