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Happy Birthday to meeee, Happy Bir...oh, hey =)
Any guitar players out there, or anyone who feels like doing me a favor? Puhlease?
One of my friends asked me to play with his band this Sunday since their guitarist is out of commission for a couple weeks. Now that's all fine and dandy since the majority of their songs are just covers that I already know, EXCEPT the couple Strokes tunes. So I've googled and googled for the notation, but to no avail. There's tons out there, but they're all wrong and I kinda need to learn it soon. I know it's pretty easy stuff and I could figure it out myself...but hey...I really don't feel like it. I'm getting a bit lethargic and can't look anymore, so I'd be reallyyy nice to wake up in the morning to have a nice litte assemblage of Strokes song notation =) Anybody know of a place I could find em'?

― Allison (Allison), Friday, 4 July 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Allison starts a thread hurrah!

Here's some:

http://www.guitaretab.com/t/the-strokes/tabs.htm

And, kinda surprisingly to me, there's some on the official Strokes site:

http://www.thestrokes.org/tab.htm

Which songs were you looking for?

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 4 July 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Allison, you really don't need tablature to play Strokes songs on the guitar.

1) Figure out what key the song is in
2) Play that note
3) Pout
4) Play the note again
5) Pout and toss your hair like you can't be bothered
6) Go back to step 2 and repeat

Good luck with the gig! You'll be ace!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 09:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I know I didn't really need them...but it couldn't hurt just to double check myself or see if I'm missing something. There's 2 that look more correct than the other ones I was looking at, thanks j0hn. The one I really couldn't find is "animal instinct". I'm starting to doubt that they even played the fucking song. I think the Cranberries had one called animal instinct, but the guy dispises the Cranberries so it couldn't be the Strokes covering a Cranberries tune. Hmm...

― Allison (Allison), Friday, 4 July 2003 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

(Why do I fear it was "Animal Nitrate?")

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 July 2003 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Your ears are always going to be a better judge than Interweb tab. Interweb tab is nearly always error ridden and useless.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 5 July 2003 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

The most common mistake I see on those interweb .crd files -- B minor written down as B major. Why?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 5 July 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know if people tab from memory or if they're just hard of hearing, but yeah: minor chrods written as majors, chords that clearly aren't the right ones and aren't even passable fudges, etc. Sometimes people seem to have tabbed out fakebook versions they worked up themselves without checking against the song, which is occasionally fine and then just occasionally bizarre: I remember finding once that song guy had tabbed out a Trash Can Sinatras song like it was honky-tonk or something, which made me wonder whether he heard everything that way.

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember finding once that song guy had tabbed out a Trash Can Sinatras song like it was honky-tonk or something, which made me wonder whether he heard everything that way.

I think I would enjoy cover bands a hell of a lot more if they would just play these songs directly from massively incorrect tabs.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Sunday, 6 July 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

This happened yesterday, no? How did it go? :-)

― kate (kate), Monday, 7 July 2003 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

The song I couldn't find was actually an original, and he said he slid a copy and a note under my door. Why didn't I see it there? Because he slid it UNDER THE RUG in front of my door. I played fine and it all worked out though =)

― Allison (Allison), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Wasn't there a Thomas Hardy novel where that happened?

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 07:49 (twenty-three years ago)

where's the julian casablanca's ass-variable in the aforementioned "you too can be the strokes!" formula, then?

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't be silly, Julian doesn't play the guitar, he just pouts and poses and looks pretty.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Tess misses Angel's note with tragic consequences. V typical Hardy. "As flies to wanton boys" etc.

― ArfArf, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it was the other way around - Tess slips a note with the details of her wanton past under his door just before they are due to marry or something, and he never receives it, because it went under the carpet... Or did he use this device more than once? Jeez!

Of course this has nothing to do with the JCA.

― kate (kate), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate of course you are right. My increasingly feeble memory lets me down again. If I'd thought about this for two seconds I should have realised that "Angel's note" made no sense whatsoever.

― ArfArf, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 08:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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