Let's Learn Everything!
60: Near Earth Objects & Guitar Tabs
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Quick takeaways
- Guitar tabs serve as a visual guide for new guitarists, offering simplified finger placement instructions.
- The history and significance of guitar tabs are often overlooked, despite their educational value.
- Online platforms like Ultimate Guitar have revolutionized the sharing and accessibility of guitar tabs.
- Tabs provide a communal and connective aspect to music, fostering engagement between musicians and fans.
Deep dives
Tabs vs Sheet Music
Tabs are a visual representation of guitar finger positions on the strings, while sheet music contains traditional musical notations. Tabs are often seen as simpler and more accessible for new guitarists who may not read traditional sheet music.
Personal Experience with Learning Guitar
The speaker accidentally learned to play the guitar after winning one at an amusement park. Eventually, they started with the song 'Don't Stop Believin' by Journey, using online guitar tabs to guide them through learning the song.
Understanding Guitar Tabs
Guitar tabs provide numeric and symbolic representations of finger placement on the guitar's fretboard. Tabs show the strings and frets where fingers should be placed to play specific notes and chords, offering a simplified way for beginners to learn songs.
Guitar Tabs as Visual Guides
While not as detailed as sheet music, guitar tabs serve as visual guides for guitarists indicating where to place their fingers on the fretboard for different notes and chords. The simple numeric and line-based format offers a straightforward way to learn songs on the guitar.
Tablature: A Misunderstood Notation System
Tablature, also known as guitar tabs, is often misunderstood as amateur sheet music when it has a rich and ancient history. Despite its significance, many definitions of tablature are inaccurate, with emphasis placed on its educational purpose. Tablature represents fingering positions rather than musical pitch, providing an accessible way for guitarists to learn popular songs.
Benefits and Importance of Guitar Tabs
Guitar tabs have a unique role in music education, allowing individuals to easily learn and play songs without extensive knowledge of traditional sheet music. The community-driven aspect of creating and sharing tabs highlights the altruistic nature of tab creators. Despite legal uncertainties and past conflicts, tabs foster a sense of togetherness and connection among musicians.
The Evolution of Tabs in the Digital Age
The internet revolutionized the accessibility and sharing of guitar tabs, leading to their widespread popularity. Ultimate Guitar emerged as a dominant platform for hosting tabs, despite facing legal challenges. Furthermore, musicians like Polyphia and Pinegrove have embraced tabs, showcasing their songs and fostering engagement with fans through this notation system.
What are all these rocks hurtling through space? Do we need to worry about them, and what can we learn from them? And what are guitar tabs, why don't people take them seriously, and why does Tom love them so dang much?
Videos we Talk About:
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Timestamps:
(00:00:00) Intro
(00:03:54) Near Earth Objects
(00:56:58) Guitar Tabs
(01:47:55) Outro
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I thought you were just going to just teach us guitar, still on course to learn everything in a few months! everyone’s favorite part: semantics and exceptions, Tom is a perfectly unmovable object, it’s doxxing myself if people know I’m the center of the universe, the great attractor was my nickname in high school, “naturally occurring objects traveling through our solar system which are smaller than planets and aren’t moons”, you must be 1 meter tall to be an asteroid, asteroids are metally comets are icy, a song of rock and metal dust and ice, asteroid/comet -> meteoroid -> meteor -> meteorite, 1.3 million known asteroids and only 3,800 comets in our solar system, within 50 million km it becomes a near earth object, obviously we’re all thinking about the Tunguska asteroid asteroid, 80 million trees felled and it didn’t even hit the Earth, one of the oldest meteors we know is from 2 billion years ago, the vredefort dome, 2 billion year old nuclear weapon testing??? the only time the earth makes Shatter Cones is meteors and nuclear explosions, if the meteor had hit the water it might not have been so catastrophic for dinosaurs, but it was going 20 kilometers per SECOND, a force 10,000 times the world nuclear arsenal, the crater has to be DISCOVERED, what does it mean for 50% of species to go extinct, the asteroid also vaporized the ground and water, impact winter, stopping photosynthesis kicks out the base of the foodchain, the meteor that broke the camel’s back, land animals over 25kg went extinct, there were a few lucky ducks, LLE Meteor Insurance, as long as Aerosmith is alive we’re fine, Asteroid Watch via the Center for Near Earth Object Studies, people listening 100 years from now hope you don’t have any asteroids (sucks to suck), Planetary Defense Coordination Office, Double Asteroid Redirct Mission, I cheered when we smashed into that asteroid, activating asteroids, asteroids are loose remaining legos from the formation of the solar system, OSIRIS-REx sample return, a kid named Bennu, tom loses his mind at the video of Osiris booping Bennu, personifying Rex, OSIRIS APEX, Apophis will be closer than some satellites, POV Apophis shots, Astroid Quakes, “cute is a weird way to describe a spacecraft touching an asteroid”, casual Caroline classical guitar lore drop, Tom learns guitar by accident, “too bad I picked this up so late”, Ella’s youtube ukulele era, don’t stop believing, tabs aren’t shittier sheet music, Van Halen didn’t invent tabs, tabs feel modern but also obvious, just because words are more efficient doesn’t mean diagrams aren’t useful, I’m just trying to play Don’t Stop Believing I have to worry about context? Guqin tablature dates to the 7th century! music has a lot of racism, rockin out those lute tabs, I knew this was secretly a font topic! monospace fonts revitalized tabs, sheet music software is garbage, god did not want me to use LaTeX they wanted me to use my mortal hands, OLGA, reading Beyonce tabs is not the same as listening to Beyonce, Paul McCartney’s the one who plays Blackbird wrong, let the philosophy professor enjoy his guitar! why punish the people who love your work, tabs are in a gray zone still, ultimate-guitar has a monopoly, the gray zone may benefit publishers, thanks swifties, Thomas Chesney’s tab research, it’s not a million miles away but it’s not right, ooh this song’s so commercially viable! Polphia’s tabs, Pinegrove’s tabs released before the songs, Tom’s guitar tabs, being a part of someone’s music journey in a little way, this could have been a guitar tab podcast, a cozy review corner.
Sources:
The Structure of the Milky Way
The Great Attractor
Nasa on Orbital Debris
Asteroids vs Comets vs Meteors
Nasa on Asteroids
Notable Asteroid Impacts
Tunguska Event
Atomic Asteroid Blasts
Vredefort Impact Structure
NASA on the Dinosaur Extincting Asteroid
NHM: Why did the dinosaurs die out?
Near Earth Objects
DART
Asteroid Watch
Asteroid Watch Dashboard
DART results
Nasa Data on Bennu
OSIRIS REx Touch Down
Bennu Sample Analysis
Nasa Data on Apophis
ESA's Possible RAMSES Mission
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NPR on Online Tabs
Van Halen Tab Interview
Mick Goodrick's The Advancing Guitarist
Yang Yuanzheng on Ancient Guqin Tablature
Solitary Orchid on the Guqin
Tantacrul's Critique of Sheet Music Software
Laura Gary's Amazing Legal Analysis of Tabs
Paul McCartney on Blackbird
NYTimes on Guitar Tab Legal Troubles
Ultimate-Guitars Licensing
Chesney's Paper Studying Guitar Tab Authors
Polyphia Tabs
Pinegrove Tabs NPR Interview
Tom's Habanero Tabs
Newspeak Dictionary
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