benjamin asked:
You can see the music notes son wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_Irae
If you could write that out as a guitar tab that would be great. Im trying to learn to read music but I’m not that good yet.
Tags: Gregorian Chant, Guitar Tab, Guitar Tabs
learning to read music
Well, the staff is 5 lines, right? The bottom line is an “E”, and the first blank space above it is “F”. The easy way to remember notes for me is to remember that the empty spaces between the lines, reading up, spell “FACE”.
Anyways, so the first note would then be an “F”, the second an “E”, the third an “F” etc.
The full list of notes is
F E F D E C D D F F G F E D C E F E D A C D D D C E F E D
I’m not showing the ties above, hard to do without a fixed font.
I think the simplest way to tab this would be something like
D -3-2-3–2—- ——-3h5-3p2——-
A ———5–3– -5-5————–5p3-
E ————— ————————–
D -2-3-2——– ————– -2-3-2—–
A ———5—– -3h5-5-5p3- ———5–
E ————5- ————– ————
I’ve broken the lines up so that Y!A won’t truncate the answer.
I’ve looked over it twice, and I *think* I’ve gotten everything right, but go by your ear. The “p” indicates a pull-off, the “h” indicates a hammer-on, but I think a slide would probably work too. Its also not easy to indicate timing in tab, so again, you’ll either have to learn how to read the music for the rhythm, interpret it yourself, or go by ear.
Good luck!
Saul