I need help, seriously...

Boyd · Post by **Boyd** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 4:26 pm

Ok so, I signed up for jazz band and school but I don't know how to read sheet music for guitars or anything else. I have about 2 weeks to learn to read sheet music. Quick, someone teach me! Please.... Oh yea, and uhh I need to know time sig.s and what not...

filmdude100cms · Post by **filmdude100cms** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 4:37 pm

damn... your fucked....

cant learn everything about reading musin in a 2 weeks, i dont know.

Boyd · Post by **Boyd** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:08 pm

Nah I can learn quick, I just need to know basic stuff, he said I could tab it out over the sheet if I needed to.

Coldchillin · Post by **Coldchillin** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:18 pm

learning music in 2 weeks = hard

learning jazz in 2 weeks = damn near impossible

MWR · Post by **MWR** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:49 pm

Coldchillin23222 wrote:learning music in 2 weeks = hard

learning jazz in 2 weeks = damn near impossible

Yup

But heres a couple of sites that might help which you could have found in the Various guitar related sites at the top of the forum but instead your a lazy bastard. I'm just fucking with ya.

This one should help with learning standard notation:http://www.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm

And this one should help with jazz: http://www.outsideshore.com/primer/primer/index.html

Good luck. You certainly have your work cut out for you.

filmdude100cms · Post by **filmdude100cms** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:05 pm

Boyd wrote:Nah I can learn quick, I just need to know basic stuff, he said I could tab it out over the sheet if I needed to.

Coldchillin23222 wrote:learning music in 2 weeks = hard

learning jazz in 2 weeks = damn near impossible

again... i say

your fucked man, it cant be done, seriously

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:39 pm

Boyd if you want you can IM me and ill help ya out. youll only be working in treble clef so it wont be that bad.

Macht · Post by **Macht** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:54 pm

umm jazz guitar is easier than bass guitar. they give you chord charts etc.

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:58 pm

Macht wrote:umm jazz guitar is easier than bass guitar. they give you chord charts etc.

jazz guitar is some of the hardest stuff there is... that is the advanced stuff anyway. one of my friends whos one of the best guitarists i know says he has trouble with jazz guitar.

Macht · Post by **Macht** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:36 pm

shane wrote:
Macht wrote:umm jazz guitar is easier than bass guitar. they give you chord charts etc.
jazz guitar is some of the hardest stuff there is... that is the advanced stuff anyway. one of my friends whos one of the best guitarists i know says he has trouble with jazz guitar.

ah yes but jazz band.. i don't know, maybe im thinking of something different

i like tictacs · Post by **i like tictacs** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:13 pm

The music probably has the chords above each bar.

If not...I suggest quitting.

DMBFan63 · Post by **DMBFan63** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:26 pm

i like tictacs wrote:The music probably has the chords above each bar.

If not...I suggest quitting.

When i joined jazz band at my school it was exactly like that. I somewhat could read the music though. and the time sigs was easy to figure out just by playing with the rest of the band

MWR · Post by **MWR** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:30 pm

Macht wrote:umm jazz guitar is easier than bass guitar. they give you chord charts etc.

davidjmatthews · Post by **davidjmatthews** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:16 pm

id switch to percussion. you will cure cancer in 2 weeks before you will learn jazz guitar, let alone sheet music. Good luck chief

Beauford33 · Post by **Beauford33** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:21 pm

Its usually basic chords (espeacially if you just signed up for it without tryout) and the sheets always have the chords writen over the note.