Piano Tabs

PowerHouseDan

Where the best place to get piano proper music,Free, with songs like Colorblind counting crows,coldplay etc

PurpleFistMixer

Umm.. you mean sheet music? (I'm not entirely sure what Piano tabs are.)
I find it's quite difficult to come across it so I download midis and open them in sibelius... and this will only work if you have sibelius. Fat lot of good I am.

Fusion251

Don't be so feckin lazy and learn them by ear! I can recommend a god eartraining program? Earmaster Pro 4, twill have you recognising chords in no time!

Here's the best way to figure out chords in my opinion:

First you get the bass note, then you figure the chord tonality, is it Minor, Major, Diminished, Augmented or Dominant? After that you just need to find alterations, i.e flat 5 sharp 9 etc...which won't be that common in the tunes you're trying to figure out so you should be grand

PurpleFistMixer

That is amazingly difficult. I spent a good half an hour trying to find one starting note in a piece (not even a chord, just one note) because my piano is seriously out of tune...

Fusion251

It's not that hard. But if the owl pianner is out of tune, that would pose a bit of a problem yeah :rolleyes: Sometimes the tune you're listening to is a bit unclear in the mix too. If that was the case i'd see if I could find and acoustic version of the tune

PurpleFistMixer

Yeah, only 'tis an orchestral bit in the music anyway...
Well, I suppose I'm just doomed to never be able to play that interlude...

Fusion251

PurpleFistMixer wrote:

Yeah, only 'tis an orchestral bit in the music anyway...
Well, I suppose I'm just doomed to never be able to play that interlude...

What interlude you need to play?

PurpleFistMixer

Ah, it's not a real interlude. Just a piano and possibly cello bit in The Black Goddess Rises by Cradle of Filth. About 2 minutes in if you know it.

Fusion251

I'll take a listen now, see if I can figure it out for ya....

PurpleFistMixer

Don't feel obliged now, 'twas just a passing fit of craziness that made me want to play it. It's nice enough and all, but it really doesn't matter.

Fusion251

It's not a problem, that was the intention of this post....

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=197970

Just want to do a bit of ear training really...it's good the keep the owl cord recognition sharp, never know when I may need it

daram

Proper sheet music is just about impossible to find online free. Simply because no-ones invented a way of displaying it other than huge images. There are some websites that have a weird piano tab thing going on, but I dont understand it. And some other websites have the sheet music for some popular songs, but it takes a lot of searching to find them becuase they break all sorts of copyright laws. In short, either fork out for a book, or learn to play by ear

newmug

daram wrote: »

Proper sheet music is just about impossible to find online free. Simply because no-ones invented a way of displaying it other than huge images. There are some websites that have a weird piano tab thing going on, but I dont understand it. And some other websites have the sheet music for some popular songs, but it takes a lot of searching to find them becuase they break all sorts of copyright laws. In short, either fork out for a book, or learn to play by ear

I find books dont follow the way you hear music being played on the radio. I bought a book of Queen songs because I wanted to learn the Bohemian Rhapsody. I was disappointed to find not only that there was none of the instrumental solos, but some of the songs weren't even in the same key as you'd hear them on a CD.

JonathanAnon

Not sure if this is of any use to you, but what you could do is this..

- Arm yourself with a MIDI sequencer, like Cubase.
- Download a MIDI files for the song you want to learn..
- Open it up in score mode and print it out...

Kind of a roundabout way of doing it.. but could be what you're looking for.

feylya

Lads, this thread is 8 years old...