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I should mention that those who didn't attend and who live along the mid-Atlantic somewhere can have a vote as to where else they may like to see one.  Perhaps not this summer, as I already have travel plans, but there are other seasons of the year and other years with summers. 

Well, next summer is looking a little sketchy too unless you live in Oregon. 

- Zurf

I am reminded of when I was between the ages of 22 and 24.  I ran a chain of photo labs then.  One of my customers brought in several rolls of home made child pornography to develop.  Our lab tech who printed those rolls got my attention and pointed them out to me.  The State Police had a commercial account with us and had officers in our lab pretty much on a daily basis.  So we photocopied the customer's roll envelop that had his name, address, and phone on it, then made two prints of each negative.  We sold the customer exactly what he came to us to get, and then gave the second set of prints with the roll envelopes to the police when they came in that day. The photographer was arrested later that day, with the photos in his possession.  We knew what to do because we had protocols for what to do.  If a young twenties lab manager with a college student lab tech could figure out what to do, it seems to me that someone who works with kids day in and day out ought to have known. 

So, I would say in addition to them not doing some things right, they really ought to have had a plan for what to do in case of unethical behavior, and trained people on that plan.  I know at my company, we have an ethics hotline where everything reported to it is thoroughly investigated, and any illegal behavior is reported to proper authorities.  Everyone is trained once a year on the ethics hotline, there are posters telling people about it in case they've forgotten the number from the training, and we have policies prohibiting anyone from retaliatory action resulting from a good faith report.  What we have isn't unusual.  It seems that a University as large and well-funded as Penn State could and should have a similar mechanism for reporting unethical or illegal behavior.

Youtube is your friend. 

Tabs are put together by well-meaning folks who are working out the chords best they can, in the way that THEY play the song (i.e., not necessarily using the same chords that the original artist plays the song).  Given that you haven't the foggiest notion of how the person who worked out the tabs plays the song, a strum pattern may only mislead you from your intended result. 

If you want it all handed to you on a silver platter (and there's nothing wrong with wanting that), then you're going to have to put out some money and buy tab books.  Those usually have strum patterns, solo tabs, and standard notation.  It will help you to learn to read standard notation if your goal is a note-for-note transcription of the original artist. 

It's all a matter of managing your expectations for the tools.  If you want someone to go through the trouble and spend the time to transcribe an entire song note for note, you need to expect to pay for that.  Also, there's the issue of royalties, as the original artist who came up with it deserves some compensation for his work too. 

Tabs aren't meant to do that.  They're meant to give you a rough idea of one way of banging out that song.  One thing I have learned is that when I see in a tab something along the lines of "I guarantee that this is exactly right, precisely the way So-and-so played it", that you're pretty much in for a lot of pain because it's not going to be very similar to how So-and-so played it at all.  The person who wrote the tab wasn't lying.  To his/her ear, it is the same.  The problem is that our brains fill in things for us and put notes in that aren't played, and blend several parts together into one, and fill in all sorts of blanks between instrument to recording to editing to listening to transcribing. 

You asked why.  There's a couple reasons why.  There's probably more. 

Again, Youtube is your friend.  Type in "Name Of Song Guitar Lesson", and you're likely to get quite a lot of options.

Thanks for looking out for me naoslager.  My campfire guitar I think has become upgraded to either a Martin 000-15M or a Seagull S6, or a cedar topped guitar similar to the Seagull.  My dreadnaughts are beginning to cause some elbow problems with arthritis. 

- Zurf

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Back to the original question - you learn by doing. 

Sorry it isn't any more complicated sounding, or easier in implementation than that.

I agree with you, but in this case the bad positioning is preventing me from getting my pinky up two fret on power chords and I can't get a boogie-woogie shuffle going.  So I am having to stretch my fingers and get my wrist to the right place so that I can do what I want to do. 

- Zurf

Welcome.  Now you need to buy the coolest guitar ever made - an Ovation 12 string.  I hear there's a gal in WV looking to sell one.  She hasn't played much since the boys next door stopped having campfires. 

Good story.  Good information.  I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Happy birthday.  Happy NGD.  You know the rules - without pictures, it didn't happen. 

$59 for a good sounding axe is a real score.  Behringer isn't known for guitars, but they are known for electronics.  So I'm betting you've got some good ones in that axe. 

- Zurf