SmilingPanda
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So I came across Brittni Paiva's awasome cover of "Safe and Sound" by Taylor Swift and the Civil Wars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBwBlIBfpYY
and Brittni is kind enough to make the tabs available for free from her site...
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/BrittniPaiva/files/Safe-Sound-tabs.pdf
My problem is that while the tabs are all there, I have trouble deciding which finger should go where... and while I can get a sense of the finger choices Brittni makes from watching the video, it moves too fast to really absorb it all (at least for my brain)
I almost feel like I would benefit more from a combo tabs/chord approach... like have the tabs but also provide the chords so that I can use the basic chord shapes for that chord to begin to make finger choices. I know tabs are used mostly for finger-picking style songs, but as a budding finger-picker, I often get stymied by finding good finger placement choices.
As a violin player I'm used to seeing the note in music notation and then for difficult passages there will be finger numbers over the notes to denote which finger to use to play each note in a passage so that it is easier to navigate.
Am I the only one who has this problem? I would think not... but maybe I am does anyone have any tips as to how I can get better at choosing the finger that make the most sense to play the notes in tabbed out songs?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBwBlIBfpYY
and Brittni is kind enough to make the tabs available for free from her site...
http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/BrittniPaiva/files/Safe-Sound-tabs.pdf
My problem is that while the tabs are all there, I have trouble deciding which finger should go where... and while I can get a sense of the finger choices Brittni makes from watching the video, it moves too fast to really absorb it all (at least for my brain)
I almost feel like I would benefit more from a combo tabs/chord approach... like have the tabs but also provide the chords so that I can use the basic chord shapes for that chord to begin to make finger choices. I know tabs are used mostly for finger-picking style songs, but as a budding finger-picker, I often get stymied by finding good finger placement choices.
As a violin player I'm used to seeing the note in music notation and then for difficult passages there will be finger numbers over the notes to denote which finger to use to play each note in a passage so that it is easier to navigate.
Am I the only one who has this problem? I would think not... but maybe I am does anyone have any tips as to how I can get better at choosing the finger that make the most sense to play the notes in tabbed out songs?