Time for tab box set - open letter to the band
lucylespian
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Ed, MIke, Stone, Jeff, Matt, Boom.
Listen Up !!
Now , with the re-issue of the Ten album marking 20 yrs, it's time to publish a box set of tab of all your songs. You have the power. You can do it right. You have done everything else from bootlegs to posters to travel and concert tix packages in Hawaii. The tabs are the last bastion.
Now is the time, puh-leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese !!
Listen Up !!
Now , with the re-issue of the Ten album marking 20 yrs, it's time to publish a box set of tab of all your songs. You have the power. You can do it right. You have done everything else from bootlegs to posters to travel and concert tix packages in Hawaii. The tabs are the last bastion.
Now is the time, puh-leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese !!
Music is not a competetion.
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2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
2009: Rotterdam, London
2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
Won't let the darkness swallow me.
My ears don't allow me to transcribe songs very well so I need tabs
Ears need exercise.
Before, I wasn't able to transcribe a song just using my ears.
It got better with time and practice.
2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
2009: Rotterdam, London
2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
I should have mentionned that I'm playing guitar for a year and a half so my ears are not well trained yet but it's slightly coming. I can notice when a tab is wrong ... that's a start.
Official tabs are sweet !!!
Do it or not, you no doubt realize there are people out here who have been asking for this for a long time. Not because we're too lazy to give your albums a solid listen and learn to play by overcoming all the mistakes on the learning curve, because many of us no longer have the time to devote to the art of deciphering an album one song at a time. Many of us have been in your listening audience from the beginning. Over that 18 year period we've had to make concessions about how we choose to relegate our time. Unfortunately being able to sequester ourselves in a room and spend hours at a time with our headphones on sitting on the floor and learning a song one chord at a time until our hands fail is not one of those things which has managed to survive intact in every case. I mean that genuinely. (Those of us who have spent countless hours dissecting and digging through the mix to pluck out that one gem of a solo or bass line know what I'm talking about
Lord help me I'm just not that good at playing guitar. I'll never pound out an "Alive" or a "Life Wasted" or a "Nothing As It Seems," but I still have the desire to learn more of your songs and further my appreciation of your song writing process and appreciate the compositional choices you have made as artists. To be blunt, we non-passive listeners would love to learn more about the songs we already know and love so well.
None of you owes us listeners anything and we're well aware of that. You certainly don't have to put a tab collection out. It does seem like a logical next step considering the history of how many other bands and artists have done it. And furthermore, with the careful attention each of you pays to the quality of art you produce (see: lucylespian's first post above), it seems that this could be another opportunity for Pearl Jam to display to other bands what high-class treatment of their fans truly is.
For what it's worth the only other band who's complete catalog of tab I would consider buying is the Beatles, and I already have that. Really.
Best Wishes.
-my dad after hearing Not for You for the first time on SNL .
I would like to add, that now that Ten is out on Rockband, there can be no possible objection to published tab books, on any grounds of commercialism or need for anyone to "use their ears". If playing the songs on few coloured buttons on a fake guitar is OK, then surely those of us who need a little help to play them on a real guitar deserve that. Apart from which, the music deserves to be presented in that way. My Led Zep box set with performance and studio notes is a treasure trove.
Even if I could transcribe every note instantly with my ears, I would buy a box set before any re-release or T-shirt or poster.
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lol........
Of course, no one here mentioned that Ten has on official songbook published by Hal Leonard, but.. It SUCKS! The people who transcribed it must have smoked good pot when they wrote this book..
Eventually, I honestly don't think that they have any intention to do offical tabs for all their albums, but.. It would be A FUCKIN' GREAT THING, even if I know all their songs.
Please, Pearl Jam, at least think about it.. If you put your songs on lame videogames to please the younger ones, you could please us old-style guitarists, too
You have to remember that 25 yr ago when I started playing, you could not get "as recorded" books at all. Everything was "piano/vocal/guitar" transcribed to a different key, and it all sucked.
Given that Ten came out 20 yr ago, the book would have been published in the transitional period between he P/V/G days, and now, so doing things like the key to Even Flow so it could be played in standard etc is not so weird if you think about it.
We take for granted that stuff will be "as recorded" today, but it's not always been that way, and I think that the Ten book was part of the learning curve for the industry.
That said, it's time to change that, and bring out the rest of the albums. I'd even settle for a "best of" with maybe LOTL or LAMSG to base an anthology on.
Interestingly, there are a few other published tabs floating around. I picked up Dissident and Daughter from www.sheetmusicdirect.net a while back. I think that's all there is though.
Mods, is there any way to start a petition for this ?? It would be a good example of "noisy democracy". Hard for the boys to ignore that, given how much energy and belief they have committed to that over the years.