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Old 05-23-2018, 08:52 PM
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Can't find a note of tab/notation for any of his tunes online anywhere. Any help?
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Old 06-03-2018, 07:20 AM
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Try this:

https://www.guitartabmaker.com/2015/...r-tab-tab.html

The guy will charge you for the TAB, but since he gives you the tuning and capo position, you can figure it out by ear and watching the video:

He says: It's in CGDGBD tuning with Capo on the 6th fret

Check this as another possibility:

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/akih...-tab-s395981t0

… or this:

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/arti...o_tanaka_29612

… or this:

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/akih...-tab-s400241t0

I didn't dive into these to see how worthwhile they are, but maybe at least some of this will point you in the right direction.

Another possibility is to check out his youtube videos. Sometimes, an artist (or the person posting the video) will put the tuning and capo position in the comment below the video or somebody in the ensuing discussion below the video will ask and somebody will answer with that information.

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Old 06-03-2018, 09:48 AM
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Thanks Tony. The one tune I was looking for isn't in notation yet. I had asked Daria when she got it from and she said she had figured it out by ear.

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To me, that is always, always the best way because we gain so much on so many levels from doing that. I don't mean to lecture that it is the only good way to learn or that everybody should do it, but I do think that for those who really want to learn something for which there is no TAB, you may find the process a lot of fun.

Lately, I have been learning some of UKPhil's stuff by ear. He was kind enough to provide us with some of the tunings he uses, so that really helps. I don't intend to perform them and don't have the patience to tab them out, but they are good for learning some new ideas for my own experimentation.

However, it can be difficult to know what the tuning is in your situation. Watching the video gives a lot of clues, so these days even that becomes possible.

It may be worth your while to invest in the Video Surgeon software. Then, all of youtube and any other video site that you can download the videos from, becomes your "book" to work from. You can have several loops and adjust them on the fly as needed, slow the video down VERY slow, zoom in and out on a portion of the video that you quickly mark and then zoom in and out so you can see EXACTLY what the player's fingers are doing, etc.

http://videosurgeon.net/

They have a whole bunch of videos on youtube giving all manner of tips for getting the most out of the software. However, it isn't difficult to use.

The only thing I don't like about it is that the various controls are really tiny because, for whatever reason, their programmers have not figured out how to call the Windows routines for resizing according to your screen resolution.

The solution to that is easy:

1. Right click on your background

2. Click on "Display Settings"

3. Change size of text, apps, and other items to some larger percentage that works for you. You can easily change it back when finished with the software, or leave it, since everything becomes easier to read for older eyes.

Tony
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