I am trying to write down TABs for myself in recently purchased Guitar PRO. The song is Slow Dancing In A Burning Room by Justin. (link below)
I downloaded Justins intro as MP3, put it in and I am trying to synchronize beats and write down TABs, so I know how it is played. I thought it will be pretty easy to write it down even with rhythm… but even when I write it down in 8th note sometimes Justin is saying “4 e and a” and that is completely messing my TABs and I have hard time to understand how to write it.
What am I doing wrong that I need to move timing for every note and how to fix the red bar? Am I trying to do something that is much harder than I can do? I cant read rhytm, only TABs.
Also it is very confusing, that riff does not start at “one”.
Is this some birth pain I must go through till I get use to it?
this caught my attention. If you want to tackle stuff like that, it is crucial to be able to read and understand rhythm first. Justin even has a book on this that might be helpful to get into it. Our check out the Rhythm Maestro series in Grade 4 of the course to get a little idea at first.
@Lisa_S Heh, Grade 4… so I am trying to do something I should not. I guess.
I thought it will be easier with Guitar PRO to understand this things… like this it looks like I can only write down TABs, somehow and continue learning by feel.
It won’t harm to check out these videos, Michal. It will definitely help you in the long run.
I learned reading rhythms long way back first, very basic, at school and later during my piano lessons. That’s a drawback of plain tabs: you hardly learn about reading rhythm and can’t really write it down in tab, too.
@Lisa_S I sent MP3 and GP file to Richard, so I will see if he can lead me somehow with this one and when I get home, I will make cup of coffee and start with module you recommended to me. I would like to learn things right. Talking mainly about rhythm.
I see Richard has you in his sight, but I’ll add the big thing I see here.
You should NOT need to shift the markers in the recording view as much as you have. This should suggest you are off somehow in what you used as a note length in the transcribe area above.
The way I do this is to align the first ‘1’ in the song to the first ‘1’ of the appropriate bar. Maybe the song comes in at 1, maybe 3. If it comes in at three, then I need to align the ‘1’ on the second bar to that place in the recording window. I sure hope that is clear!
I do this with two things, I first try to get consistent alignment of tempo and song. This means I am trying to nudge the tempo so that it will align the same on each bar. I don’t care yet where it aligns, just get it to land in the same beat. Then I scoot the start point (looks like a square bracket) so that the ‘1’ will align on 1 in the recording. Once that is done, as long as the recording is not wiggling around in timing, I know I need to use the correct note length to make things fit. You can use the moving marker in the recording to see if the note you are on in the tab is in alignment.
I hope this make sense.
Here is a quick view with the marker. This is a drum stem I isolated to look at, so it is very easy to align by eye, but this part made me fiddle a bit with note length to get it right:
Michal sent me his GP file and I have returned it with edits, corrections and written explanation…
I would share it but need to consider the sharing of tab.
@Richard_close2u I am OK with sharing this things. In the end… I did it bad and it cant be used.
Now I am just enjoying my afternoon with Justin and cup of coffee. What a great day. Thank you all for inputs.
I can see from Justins video I totaly ignored existence of note lenght.
Rhythm notation is definitely important if you want to use Guitar Pro or just learn from tabs (good ones, that have the rhythm). And it’s just interesting, at least to me. Sometimes it’s simple and straightforward, other times you need to solve a little puzzle to fit all the notes in a bar correctly.
