I have just been checking some guitar tabs i have of Beethoven and Mozat that came with guitar pro and they are amazing but realy hard to play hehe.
2006-10-22 10:02:06 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The difficulty you have with guitar tabs for Beethoven and Mozart can be simply explained. They did not write for guitar!
Guitars cannot play chords that are written for piano or orchestra. Orchestral chords and piano chords require the notes to be struck simultaneously, whereas a guitar cannot do this - the best one can do is to strum.
I take off my metaphorical hat to you in attempting to play Beethoven, and in recognising that the chords are difficult.
It is difficult for people brought up on a musical diet of Rock to see any other instrument that the guitar, but the tablature (music-writing) for the guitar is special to this instrument, and does not reflect the tablature for the Classical orchestra and its instruments.
Go to a music shop, and buy a primer on Harmony and Counterpoint. These will not help you with guitar tablature, but they will show you how music is written. Guitar tabs are derived from orthodox tablature, and you need to understand the rudiments of scale, key, rhythm and instrumentation before you can get a grip on the music of Mozart and Beethoven.
You could look at Salieri, Ditters Van Dittersdorf and Louis Spohr as contemporaries of Mozart, but the tabs wont work with these composers, either. Or look at the Lute music of Byrd or Dowland. Sting has recently done some work with this medium - worthy of investigation.
I'd say you've got musical balls. Use them.
2006-10-22 10:22:13 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gustav Mahler,Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky,Wofgang Amade Mozart,Friedrich Schopen, Sergei Rachmaninoff,Antonio Vivaldi, and thats it
2006-10-22 10:06:05 · answer #2 · answered by recentlyconfirmedagnosticofminds 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can only think of one and that is Yo, Yo, Ma. A chello player. By the way do you play in the orchestra? Also Bach is another good one.
2006-10-22 10:04:50 · answer #3 · answered by sporty6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bach, Brahms, Schubert... lots
2006-10-22 10:05:13 · answer #4 · answered by Ariel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haydn is a contemporary of them both, and he lived a long time so wrote a lot! :-)
2006-10-22 10:12:27 · answer #5 · answered by beccyf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
westlife,boyzone,maybe even G4
2006-10-22 10:10:45 · answer #6 · answered by ukfool666 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
bach and chopin (i think thats how you spell it)
2006-10-22 10:04:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
bach
debussy
2006-10-22 10:05:07 · answer #8 · answered by shih rips 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋