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Hey guys I just got ultimate guitar tabs app and I wanted something that would show me some chords and I have no idea really about guitar or how to play one I watched a couple of YouTube videos can someone teach me how to transpose so I can play on a keyboard or help me understand what I'm looking at I know it starts on E and ends on E but how can I get the chords and keys out of what I'm looking at so I can play on the keyboard
 
seethe following threads

https://www.futureproducers.com/for...-like-guitar-sheet-music-402796/#post49365145

and this

There are a few threads that have addressed this in recent times

https://www.futureproducers.com/for...guitar-sounds-what-you-used-make-them-385291/

https://www.futureproducers.com/for...guitar-sounds-what-you-used-make-them-385291/

Find a good on-line chord manual for guitar (there are some good ones out there but not all will be be useful to the point of putting notes into your daw


Some stuff from another thread that got a bit carried away with debate that didn't need to happen, but went on for days anyway......

guitarNotes.png
Base pitches and MIDI NN for each string are: E3~64, B2~59, G2~55, D2~50, A1~45, E1~40​

Several Guitar chords on each of A, B, C, D, E, F and G. The guitar is shown at notation octave, but played back at sounding octave; the piano is at notation and sounding octave.

A
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-A.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-A.png


B
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-B.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-B.png


C
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-C.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-C.png


D
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-D.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-D.png


E
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-E.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-E.png


F
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-F.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-F.png


G
[mp3]http://www.bandcoach.org/fp/audio/GCFP-G.mp3[/mp3]

GCFP-G.png


I leave the flat/sharp naming notes to you to sort out.
 
How did I know this was not going to be easy.. I know this is a dumb question but is a Am on a piano the same as a Am on a bass or a guitar I see you have the basics on the first thread but I since I won't be using a real guitar and instead using my keyboard like this one song that's on there they already have it written out Am Em Am Em and so on
 
There are many ways to play an Am chord on the same instrument. I don't understand exactly what you want to know, but if the guitar tabs tells you to play an Am chord then that's going to sound good both on the guitar and on the keyboard.

Edit:
If you have a piece of tabulature that looks like this: (It's the first few notes of RHCP's Californication)
e------------------------------------------------------------
B--------0--1------------------------------------------------
G----------------------------0---2---------------------------
D-----2--------0--1------------------------------------------
A--0---------------------3-----------------------------------
E---------------------1--------------------------------------
You can use the pictures in bandcoach his post to find out what the notes are.
The first picture also says 'EBGDAE' like in the tabs. So the first number you see in the tabs reading from left to rights is 0.
This 0 is located on the A string. You can see in the first picture that at position 0 on the A string there is an A. (makes sense right?)
Next is the 2, positioned on the D string. You will see that 2 positions to the right on the D string there is an E.

You'll be able to find all the notes to play on the keyboard like this. It's very inconvinient but if you can only find tabs for a song
you really want to play on your keyboard this is how you do it.
I hope my explaination is understandable ;)
 
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How did I know this was not going to be easy.. I know this is a dumb question but is a Am on a piano the same as a Am on a bass or a guitar I see you have the basics on the first thread but I since I won't be using a real guitar and instead using my keyboard like this one song that's on there they already have it written out Am Em Am Em and so on

they are all the same
- as in the notes for an Am chord do not change regardless of what instrument you try and play them on,
- not to be confused with the specific notes that you might play on a particular instrument,
-- it is voicings that distinguish between instruments as much as anything else

a piano player is less likely to voice their chords like a guitarist simply because the notes would be too far apart to play comfortably

for similar reasons a guitarist is unlikely to voice their chords like a piano player because the notes would be too close together to even contemplate playing let alone with comfort
 
yeah that's what i wanted to know i've watched about 100 youtube videos its starting to make more sense
 
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