What are all of your tablature or music books that you guys have? Do you guys prefer tab or music for playing guitar? What book is your favorite?

My tab books:
The Beatles 1 Album
The Best of KISS
White Pages Vol. 2
Rhythm Guitar (My lesson's book)
Fingerpicking Beatles

My favorite would be the Fingerpicking book. I find classical guitar to be very beautiful.

What about you guys?

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Why bother buying books for this when we have the internet.....? Tablature books are literally entirely obsolete at this point...

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Pixies

Dire Straits Knopfler I and II
The Kinks
2 old Janis Joplin books from the 70's

For fingerpicking
Martin Simpson
David Surette
Al Petteway
Clapton Life in the blues
anything by Stefan Grossman and his friends

For true fingerpicking
Have to go to the Classical Guitar books
Carcassi, Carulli

I basically have a stack of methodology books if stacked about 6ft high, it has taken a few years to acquire comprised of the Grimoire series to classical Pedagogy to Jazz, Rock, Blues, Celtic, as well as the odd fiddle tunes for the guitar.
Enough to always keep me busy for years to come...

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The fact that tablature written sheet music has been around for centuries would tend to disprove or at the very least argue your point to the opposite.
Many cannot read sheet music, however a sheet of tablature is still not enough without the actual traditional written music. Tab only illustrates finger positioning, it does not explain a note as far as it relates to time, decay, forte, piano.... etc...etc...

Oh...BTW.. that Janis Joplin songbook I just mentioned, titled " Joplin in Concert " I bought it in 74 @ Kokomo Music, in Kokomo Indiana for $2.95
I just saw it on Amazon.com for $125.00
It does not have Tab, Tab back then was a rare exception.

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Making the interent even better for it, as you can see everything the book would have and hear it at the same time.

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Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

I would have agreed at one time. I've played classical pieces for 40 years.

However. today, we don't need anyone to interpret music for us. We can listen to it . When I want to play a classical piece I can google it and 'listen' to a dozen versions. Unless a piece of sheet music was written 'for guitar' by the original composer it is no better an interpretation than my own. i can rely on my own ear.

If it is 'for guitar' by the composer I still will use my own interpretation as I do for any piece whether it be classic, blues or rock.

bottom line, I haven't looked at a physical piece of sheet music for a decade. I've even long ago tossed out my tab books. Today if I want to play a piece I google a half dozen tabs, listen to various versions, watch You tube versions and then decide how 'I' want to play it. Often I borrow a bit from everyone.

Back to the OP...none. I don't have any books. The odd time I'll print out a tab but usually just bookmark it and work off the screen.

+1.

I find songbooks/tab books to be pretty pointless. Everything can be found online and more times than not...it's free. I had an Alice in Chains tab book back in in the 90's before things were as readily available online. But I think that's the last one I ever bought. Now I do as was said earlier. I compare several different versions, use what I want from each, and allow my ear to fill in the rest. Usually I just learn by ear anyway.

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why bother with tabs when you have your ears to listen and figure it out

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"Guitar Tab White Pages" and "Bass Tab White Pages." Lots of variety. A little bit of everything and not much of anything.

"What Duck Done" a collection of basslines played by Duck Dunn at Stax/Volt and elsewhere. Great bass book!

"R&B Bass Bible" is also a good R&B bass tab book.

A couple of years ago I bought the best and most comprehensive Beatle chord book I've ever seen.It's called The Beatles Complete Chord Book and it's published by Hal Leonard. All of the chords are the same ones The Beatles used and are not transposed to be easier to play on keyboards as many of them are,it even allows for some songs being 1/4 or 1/2 a tone off due to speeding up the master tapes.Strangely enough the Chords to Nowhere Man are not as The Beatles played it,I found that very odd in such a comprehensive book.

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Yeah... Try that listening to John Williams or David Russell or Julian Bream.
your ears can only take you so far.

A case in point would be to walk into a GC and see and hear someone playing " Smoke on the Water " or " Paranoid " or " Jumpin Jack Flash ".
Most get it completely wrong and don't figure out that all of those songs make judicious use of open strings in the chording sequence.

Ears are great but to really understand a piece of music, play it correctly and then be able to interject certain accents and a personal interpretation, sheet music is a plus.

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Those examples are ludicrous.

Wrong? then I have played everything 'wrong' all my life. Thank god that I have played them 'wrong' and don't sound like a tape recorder. Even the original groups usully don't play their own music the same way twice.

Good grief...you fail to understand that music is art and not robotics.

So you're totally taking Allegri's Miserere out of the question then?

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If there is failure here, it is you who misinterpreted what I wrote. I used those songs as examples simply because they are so widely known.
If using sheet music is considered robotics then is the equivalent of opening a textbook about grammar, and the complexities of communicating in English also pointless since one could just step into a room full of PHD's, listen for a minute and be completely capable of carrying on a discussion......

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So you're totally taking Allegri's Miserere out of the question then?

Meaning....?

Without Sheet music, I would have loved to have witnessed Mozart explain his choral compositions....

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