How do I read Keyboard tabs?

[Load]

Can anyone give me a homepage or something that shows me how to do it. I played some keyboard, but I never learned to read tabs.

 

[~MarttiPrkl]

Post some tab, and I can try to explain. I haven't used them, but it can't be that difficult...

 

[for-will-drive-devil]

Mmh, aren't you supposed to play with regular partitions when you play keys ?
Just a suposition, I'm not specially a musician, but I'd say so.

Anyway, a good thing would be to get Guitar pro 4, there's a graphic neck and a graphic keyboard which shows the notes played.

You can also display the tab and the regular notation at the same time.
So I think it can help a lot.

 

[Tut Ankh Amon]

the first auxiliary tick on the bottom of it is C

then you just go up with D E F G A B, and then the octaves repeat themselves

 

[ubiquitos]

' =One octave above middle C
'' =Two octaves above middle C
. =one octave below middle C
.. =Two octaves below middle C
(X-X) = Notes in brackets, played together




thats what ive seen done anyways, not sure if all tabbers use this.

 

[~metal_maiden~]

^ I've seen 'em that way, too.

 

[the_drip]

ugh...learn to read REAL music notation.

keyboard tabs are fucked up.


there needs to be a better way of transcribing music so people can read it on the internet. I fuckin hate keyboard tablature.

 

[Janne Warman]

I think keyboard tab is the most bullshit thing ever, if you can´t read notation start playing guitar

 

[Tut Ankh Amon]

oh shit
wait a minute

there are actually tabs for keyboards?!?!?
i mean, stuff different from the usual pentagram drill?

 

[Fenrir13]

yeah, Tut, I didn't know keyboard tabs existed either. I knew guitar, bass, and drums. I have to come out of my cave more often.

 

[~metal_maiden~]

Yeah, I agree, keyboard tabs are fucked up... it's better if you learn to read notation. Well, atleast it's easier for me to read and follow notation.

 

[Tut Ankh Amon]

holy shit
notation is easy as hell
i learnt the basics when i was in 5th grade and never forgot about it

hell, i'm a drummer and i compose midi!

(okay, when i have to read it, i'm slow, but wtf )

 

[spellbound-by-the-bodom]

Yeah janne is right keyboard tabs are just bullshit it takes far long to read them anyway ! like with notation you can get a rough idea where your fingers should be etc with keyboard tab you have to check if you have some bullshit star over the note or whatever! Im not bitching at you dude just a helping hand its really easy and if you practice it will be so easy give me an email or somthing and if you have midi i'll send you a prog to practice on

 

[Load]

Ok, thanks everyone I think I can read normal notation...? If that is those things that are usually written in books?

 

[~metal_maiden~]

Yes they are...

 

[Daemon]

Try and find the keyboard part in a gp4 format and open it with gp4. Then you can click an option so the normal notation appears. That's how my brother plays some keyboard tabs, but he only plays it since 3-4 months .

 

[spellbound-by-the-bodom]

If your brother wants to play keyboards to even an ok standard , slap him in the head and tell him to knuckle down with a book for a few hours

 

[TKOC_Keys]

Alright I may be a lil late on this post but, who cares im a new member. I started Keyboards in december of 2004 so ive been playing for a little over a year. At first i played some tabs but yeah like Janne said tabs are bull shit I agree there but Im still learning how to read notes but other wise i use guitar-pro if you guys dont know its a program that takes tabs and plays them in midi form and it shows you on a lil fret board or keyboard what they're playing i suggest who ever wants to learn stuff quik get guitar-pro.

 

[Feel_The_Force]

Learn to read music

 

[KillerGon]

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