Some thoughts

[dianec42]

* People who have taken the brown acid should not, under any circumstances, be allowed to transcribe bass tabs for well-known songs. How some of these people found the mental coordination to post this stuff to the Internet is beyond me.

* When I find I am spending more time sputtering in acute disbelief at bass tabs I have downloaded from the Internet than actually playing anything, it's probably time to give it up and go find something to eat.

* Most common phrases: "What?!" "Why would anyone DO that?" "That's just WRONG."

Sigh. Must go pay money for sheet music. If only I could remember which guitar shop had that book purporting to contain the best of Van Morrison... argh!

Final thought:

* I'm really hoping my recent insanity has been due to lack of sleep, or something similarly recoverable. We still haven't ruled out "something in the water".

Comments

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I've seen plenty of "That's just WRONG" in professionally transcribed, commercially published sheet music, too. And I'm not talking about theatre music (who was it that scored Pippin? Was he ever diagnosed and treated?); I'm talking about Rolling Stones transcriptions that were certainly not related to the way the Rolling Stones played those songs, and stuff like that.

But at least if you pay for it you get to actually complain about it instead of just mocking it ...

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

I hate getting this stuff off the Internet. It's a bit like going to the Elves for counsel, only instead of saying both No and Yes, it also says "Giraffe!"

If I tab it myself and post it to the Internet, then do I get to complain? Can't I just complain anyway? (-:

[merde.livejournal.com]

you should see the guitar tab. it's amazingly bad. i found a version of a Beatles song where the person had come up with a physically unplayable set of chords, apparently unaware that capoing up one fret would put it back into the basic G/C/D neigborhood.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. At least with bass, you're generally only playing one note at a time, so most of the improbable tabs are at least physically possible to do (even if no sane human every actually would).