Jimi75
Well-known member
...talking 'bout your musical life of course. I never really learned to read music, so tabs were crucial to my progress from day one on.
Besides the hundreds of tabs that you read in magazines I think there are only a handful of tabs that really "open doors" and push your playing into new and even better heights.
Do you remember which tabs or tab books did that to you?
Here's my short list - no priorities in order:
Joe Satriani - Flying in a blue dream:
I learned how to combine long legato runs. Satch also always had bluesy references in his playing so that I could steal away the one or other bluesy lick.
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love:
I was in Cologne with my girlfriend and saw the tab book. Had not enough money on me, but convinced her that this book is important to me. She bought it and it changed my playing in its entirety. I heard the cd back home over and over again, but couldn't really find out how Jimi played around the chords. No internet at that time. Discovering the magic that makes songs as Castles made of sand, Bold as love and Little wing was I would say the most important step in my playing.
SRV - Texas Flood:
I heard about SRV, but wasn't familiar with his music. I was in Seattle and there was this guy, entering a Guitarshop store where I was peacefully checking effects - plugging in a Strat into a Bassman, playing that hellish texas blues. Plugging out and buying the amp. All that within 5 minutes. I was shocked. When asking the guy in the shop what the heck he played, he just grabbed the tab book to Texas Flood. Bought the cd the same day and worked the ***** out of this book, which led me into a long phase of several years playing in a texas blues trio.
That's it from my side.
Of course I own some other cool tab books, but listening to my playing I would say those books are the milestones.
So far
How about your most influential tabs/books?
Greetz
Jimi
Besides the hundreds of tabs that you read in magazines I think there are only a handful of tabs that really "open doors" and push your playing into new and even better heights.
Do you remember which tabs or tab books did that to you?
Here's my short list - no priorities in order:
Joe Satriani - Flying in a blue dream:
I learned how to combine long legato runs. Satch also always had bluesy references in his playing so that I could steal away the one or other bluesy lick.
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love:
I was in Cologne with my girlfriend and saw the tab book. Had not enough money on me, but convinced her that this book is important to me. She bought it and it changed my playing in its entirety. I heard the cd back home over and over again, but couldn't really find out how Jimi played around the chords. No internet at that time. Discovering the magic that makes songs as Castles made of sand, Bold as love and Little wing was I would say the most important step in my playing.
SRV - Texas Flood:
I heard about SRV, but wasn't familiar with his music. I was in Seattle and there was this guy, entering a Guitarshop store where I was peacefully checking effects - plugging in a Strat into a Bassman, playing that hellish texas blues. Plugging out and buying the amp. All that within 5 minutes. I was shocked. When asking the guy in the shop what the heck he played, he just grabbed the tab book to Texas Flood. Bought the cd the same day and worked the ***** out of this book, which led me into a long phase of several years playing in a texas blues trio.
That's it from my side.
Of course I own some other cool tab books, but listening to my playing I would say those books are the milestones.
So far
How about your most influential tabs/books?
Greetz
Jimi
