piano tab

[00gib00]

I cant find any good sites for piano tab.What are some sites you guys use?

[omnisis]

You mean sheet music right?  Pianos don't have "tabulature", the TABs are the lines and spaces on the score that map directly to the keys.

As for websites, everynote.com has just about any piece you desire for about $1.50 a pop.  There are several sites with yearly or monthly subscription rates for some of the more popular composers and pieces if you are going to be d/ling a lot of music.    Also, there is also a book series called "Classics to Modern" that has non-arranged authentic classical pieces grouped by difficulty as well.  A google search will work wonders for you if you use the words "sheet music" instead of "tabs".

~omnisis

[nyquist]

You mean sheet music right?  Pianos don't have "tabulature", the TABs are the lines and spaces on the score that map directly to the keys.

~omnisis

If by tablature you mean a method that shows where the fingers go on an instrument rather than pitches and durations, pianos do have tablatures:  The most interesting method I know is "klavarskribo".  Check out

https://www.klavarskribo.com/

They have a pretty extensive library of piano music transcribed to this method.  Out of curiosity, a few years back I got myself a copy of the WTC.  It is really fun to sight-read. 

Nyquist
PS tried to insert a jpeg to show how it looks, but could not figure out how.  Help?

[omnisis]

whoa!  That notation looks way harder than standard musical notation!  You read it top to bottom no?  How the heck do you represent big leaps, by using some kind of octave indication?  I can see where one might think it would be easier because the relative distance between keys is preserved in the notation, but once you mentally associate standard note values with the keyboard layout this becomes automatic anyway.  Besides that dynamic markings must make the entire page look like hieroglyphics....

Still, I had no idea that there was such a thing.  Thanks for the info.

~omnisis

[nyquist]

whoa!  That notation looks way harder than standard musical notation!  You read it top to bottom no?  How the heck do you represent big leaps, by using some kind of octave indication?  I can see where one might think it would be easier because the relative distance between keys is preserved in the notation, but once you mentally associate standard note values with the keyboard layout this becomes automatic anyway.  Besides that dynamic markings must make the entire page look like hieroglyphics....

Still, I had no idea that there was such a thing.  Thanks for the info.

~omnisis

Yes, it is read top to bottom.  The "staff" is as wide as the piece requires.  The example at the front of the page just showed one octave.  After a while one gets used to it.  I suppose it might be easier to learn for somebody who does not read music at all.

N.

[japzz]

wouldn't it be more interesting for someone,who doesn't read music at all,to invest his precious time in learning how to read "traditional" scores instead of trying to learn an alternative notation method which is only suitable for piano and has little connection with how most musicians function?I mean,you start up a rockband/jazzcombo/piano-stringquartet to play your own compositions and the only thing you can show your future collegues are those alternative "piano-tabs".
It takes some effort to learn to read music but it is certainly worthwhile.Compared to the efforts you make to learn to play pieces by liszt,chopin,....it's nothing.
The music notation we generally use is far from perfect BUT perfect enough to write down the most complex sonates by the greats(from Bach to Ravel via....) so make this little step instead of trying to find something (augmented music notation version 2.1,customised music notation basic version,turbo music notation with all the add-ins,.....) which may solve your problem on short term but nothing more.I wonder how a piano-tab notation transcription of a Bach 3 voices fuga looks like.Actually it wouldn't surprise me that you'll spend an equal amount of time deciphering the piano tab as if you would figure out the correct fingerings for yourself with eventually the help of a teacher.

[thalbergmad]

Banjo is easily learned via tabs, but it is not a suitable method for piano.

The original poster may well now have died of old age and will not benefit from this wisdom.

Thal