Topic: New Tab Postings
"The Party", from the Mutiny Up My Sleeve (1978) album. The story of this tab is of the I've-got-good-news-and-bad-news variety. The bad news is that I realized pretty quickly while doing the tabbing that I was never going to be able to tab the solo at full speed. So I decided rather than put in forty bars of guess work, I'd just leave the solo out. But I don't like doing that, so it motivated me to finally go searching the Web for a program that can slow down songs without changing the pitch. It also had to allow me to save the altered music and burn it to CD, since I can't do tabbing from my computer. I looked at a few programs, and a couple looked kind of complicated. I was basically looking for "Slowing Down Songs For Dummies", something I could use right away without engaging in a lot of manual reading. The good news is the third one I looked at seemed to be just the thing. Within just a few minutes I knew how to slow songs down and save them to my hard drive. Hurray! 
Not so fast. 
I happily arranged "The Party" at three different speeds. Then I went to burn it to a disc. The bad news is the burning process didn't work. Nothing came out on the disc. So obviously I have CD burner issues to work out. The good news is that I don't think the problem is the slow-down program, I think I just don't have the CD burner in the new computer set up right yet. Or maybe there isn't a burner in there at all, in which case I'd have to get the one from the old computer transferred into the new one. It looks like a solvable problem, anyhow, it might just take some time.
But for the moment, no solo in this tab. I'm going to go ahead and post it as is, and once the CD burner problems are resolved, I'll do the solo and add it into the tab (and post here when I've done that).
The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/cantab/maxwebster-theparty.txt
Audio/album version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hezj2afvMNg
Live/video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3RJnmTwjck
), I could have changed the tab to make it 11/4 by removing the bar lines, making each staff one bar of music instead of four bars. But I decided not to because I think it's actually easier to follow the way I originally tabbed it...and if even the composer was thinking of it that way, it can't be too wrong. Tabbed here is the Intro and a dual guitar part after the first Chorus. The tab is of the studio version.
...soon