by donna plasky » 15 Jul 2012, 00:26
Dear Martin: I just wanted to say thanks for posting your question, because it helped me learn about music. I was unable to help you with your specific question, but it was interesting to know that you and others sometimes find discrepancies in different versions of sheet music, tabs, etc. As a beginner, that is happening to me a lot. Some of that is because of the fact that I'm a beginner, but hearing you all discuss chord and key discrepancies was still helpful to me. It was just last night that I was wrestling with some sheet music of "Peace Pipe" and I had the guitar tabs from Goran's site -- which for me were more than adequate. I was just trying to reconcile the sheet music with the tabs, in an effort to learn certain things. Eventually I realised that...or at least I think that...the sheet music and the guitar tabs are in different keys. The sheet music was too low in pitch and played too low on the fretboard. For me, it would be a monumental effort to try to change the sheet music to what I want to to be...so I'm finished with that project and I'll just use Goran's tabs.
I guess I'm just trying to say thanks for letting me know that everybody encounters discrepancies from time to time. It shows me that sheet music in a book is nice, but it doesn't have to mean it's exactly right, all the time.
Kind regards,
Donna