Comments on: Tab vs By Ear http://blog.murphymethod.com/2010/02/04/tab-vs-by-ear/ Where the Murphy Method community keeps in touch. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:31:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: admin http://blog.murphymethod.com/2010/02/04/tab-vs-by-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-1183 admin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:33:14 +0000 http://blog.murphymethod.com/?p=1463#comment-1183 In answer to your question, Marty, yes, please do. Casey In answer to your question, Marty, yes, please do.

Casey

]]> By: Tam http://blog.murphymethod.com/2010/02/04/tab-vs-by-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-1179 Tam Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:12:48 +0000 http://blog.murphymethod.com/?p=1463#comment-1179 Opps...I forgot to add. P.S. Some of the time I played with my eyes closed.. Try that if your a TAB reader Opps…I forgot to add.

P.S. Some of the time I played with my eyes closed.. Try that if your a TAB reader

]]> By: Tam http://blog.murphymethod.com/2010/02/04/tab-vs-by-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 Tam Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:48:02 +0000 http://blog.murphymethod.com/?p=1463#comment-1178 Hi Murphy Great to see you take an active participation on the thread about the Murphy Method on the BHO. You should visit more often we are always talking about how much you have helped us realise our goals. I just posted this on the Hangout. Hi Guy's Lately I have been learning tunes in the key of C from the Murphy Method Soldiers Joy DVD which is my favourite Murphy DVD. Not sure if it is because all the tunes are in the key of C or because I love the tunes. In any case they are music to my ear. For those of you who regularly read my posts it will come as no surprise that I am a great fan of the MM. Working with this DVD these past few weeks has made me realise just how far I have come and how much I have learned since taking up the banjo in April 2008. Ranked as one of Murphy's Intermediate tutorials I found the lessons on this DVD both challenging yet easy and a whole lot of fun to learn. The tunes are Liberty, Soldier's Joy, Farewell Blues, Old Spinning Wheel and Home Sweet Home and have a host of interesting licks. Some tunes are played in double C tuning so they have a deep rich tone which seems to add an extra dimension. So if all you do is play in open G let me just say tune that forth string down to C fret the second string at the first fret and the first string at the second fret and run your thumb pick across the strings. Does that sound not stir your soul! Two day's ago I started learning Soldiers Joy and today I had one of those eureka moments after I added the vamp chords. I can't believe I have just spent the last four hours playing Soldiers Joy over and over again with BIAB backing. I even capoed up and played it in double D fairly cleanly with few mistakes and at a good steady tempo of 120 I am pretty pleased with myself. Tam Hi Murphy

Great to see you take an active participation on the thread about the Murphy Method on the BHO. You should visit more often we are always talking about how much you have helped us realise our goals. I just posted this on the Hangout.

Hi Guy’s

Lately I have been learning tunes in the key of C from the Murphy Method Soldiers Joy DVD which is my favourite Murphy DVD. Not sure if it is because all the tunes are in the key of C or because I love the tunes. In any case they are music to my ear.

For those of you who regularly read my posts it will come as no surprise that I am a great fan of the MM. Working with this DVD these past few weeks has made me realise just how far I have come and how much I have learned since taking up the banjo in April 2008. Ranked as one of Murphy’s Intermediate tutorials I found the lessons on this DVD both challenging yet easy and a whole lot of fun to learn.

The tunes are Liberty, Soldier’s Joy, Farewell Blues, Old Spinning Wheel and Home Sweet Home and have a host of interesting licks. Some tunes are played in double C tuning so they have a deep rich tone which seems to add an extra dimension. So if all you do is play in open G let me just say tune that forth string down to C fret the second string at the first fret and the first string at the second fret and run your thumb pick across the strings. Does that sound not stir your soul!

Two day’s ago I started learning Soldiers Joy and today I had one of those eureka moments after I added the vamp chords. I can’t believe I have just spent the last four hours playing Soldiers Joy over and over again with BIAB backing. I even capoed up and played it in double D fairly cleanly with few mistakes and at a good steady tempo of 120 I am pretty pleased with myself.

Tam

]]> By: Martha Carlton http://blog.murphymethod.com/2010/02/04/tab-vs-by-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-1174 Martha Carlton Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:10:14 +0000 http://blog.murphymethod.com/?p=1463#comment-1174 Go Martin Bacon!!!! No question about what side I am on!!! Go Martin Bacon!!!!

No question about what side I am on!!!

]]> By: Martin Bacon http://blog.murphymethod.com/2010/02/04/tab-vs-by-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-1167 Martin Bacon Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:16:33 +0000 http://blog.murphymethod.com/?p=1463#comment-1167 So can I copy this and post it on BHO for the non Murphy Henryites. I love to see flames come from burning embers. So can I copy this and post it on BHO for the non Murphy Henryites. I love to see flames come from burning embers.

]]> By: Mike Larsen http://blog.murphymethod.com/2010/02/04/tab-vs-by-ear/comment-page-1/#comment-1166 Mike Larsen Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:36:53 +0000 http://blog.murphymethod.com/?p=1463#comment-1166 It saved me that's for sure. After 8 months i was just about to give up as i still couldnt play a single tune when i found your website and ordered Volume 1. Then, when i could play BITH after one day I knew i found something that worked for me. Having no previous musical experience, i couldnt make heads or tails out of the timing in tab and therefore could never make anything sound right. 6 years later, i still use the licks i learned in the first two volumes all the time when i am making something up on the fly and all those songs have stuck in my head much better than anything i learned off tab. I think i have learned almost every song on every tape/dvd and done much of the mando, bass and guitar stuff too. Thanks for getting me over the hump! Mike It saved me that’s for sure. After 8 months i was just about to give up as i still couldnt play a single tune when i found your website and ordered Volume 1. Then, when i could play BITH after one day I knew i found something that worked for me. Having no previous musical experience, i couldnt make heads or tails out of the timing in tab and therefore could never make anything sound right.

6 years later, i still use the licks i learned in the first two volumes all the time when i am making something up on the fly and all those songs have stuck in my head much better than anything i learned off tab. I think i have learned almost every song on every tape/dvd and done much of the mando, bass and guitar stuff too. Thanks for getting me over the hump!

Mike

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