TexasFury

You can say I've been tabbing since about 1982. "How", you ask? Easy, it just takes a B♭ cornet, notebook paper, a pencil and an old time console record player. That's how I scored AC/DC's "If You Want Blood, You've Got It" album. Being a poor teenager, I painstakingly made my own staff paper by hand with a pen and a ruler on notebook paper (college ruled, by the way). Then I would lean over the turntable with a cornet in my right hand and use my left hand to pick the needle up and reset it, THOUSANDS OF TIMES. No guitar, no computer, no Sound Forge, no Amazing SlowDowner, no center channel eliminators, no nothing. Just a pencil, my ears and memory. I did have one cheat, though. Since songs in A are written in B on cornet, I'd detune it almost a half step so it would sound in C, which is much easier. But the tuning slide would only move so far, I still had to intentionally play a bit flat on purpose to be in tune with the LP.

Well it's been a long while since those days of transcribing with the basics, and now have the luxury of modern technology to help me. I am now specializing in Texas Tabs™ by rock artists from the Great Republic of Texas, like Buddy Holly, King's X, Point Blank, Eric Johnson, Los Lonely Boys, Galactic Cowboys, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Lightning, ZZ Top, Watchtower, Chris Duarte, Pantera, Van Wilks, The Valles Brothers, Akasha, Vallejo, Chingon and Del Castillo. If you have any suggestions for a Texas Tab™, let me know. Next up: Into the New, by Vallejo!!!

However, I will finish up some tabs that are almost done. On the unfinished list are Hardline - Dr. Love, Julian Arcas - Jota Aragonesa (classical), Stryper - Shining Star and maybe Black Sabbath - Lady Evil. But when these are done, that's it for the non-Texas tabs!

Also When Guitar Pro 6 comes out, all my tabs will be converted and updated here on U-G to that format.

Isaias Garcia

-a Jackson DK1 enthusiast.