Mario theme

[NickelCreekFan1]

hey! does anyone have the tab to this? Chris has played it alot and im picking it out on the piano but i cant seem to get it on the mando....if anyone has the tabcould you pleeeeeeeeeease share? pretty please??

[Bart Simpson]

Its hard on Mando. I can now play just about every Mario theme there is now. Its great to annoy my friends with(yahh I have friends) As for the tabs I play all by ear and dont know how to write tabs sorry.

[Banjo_Ken]

A good solution to this problem is to go download talbedit (www.talbedit.com), which is a great tab editor. You can only get the demo version, but that's enough for any tabs you want to get. Then, go download a MIDI file of the Mario Bros. theme. There are plenty of ways to do this. Just run mario bros. MIDI through a search engine. Then, you can import the MIDI file into talbedit and it will convert it to tab for whatever instrument you want! This is exactly what I did when I decided I had to learn the Mario Bros. theme on mando, too! :D

Ken

[NickelCreekFan1]

thanks! this thing is awesome!! im going to go crazy making all these tabs now ^.^

[matt the fiddler]

i do have to put me 2 cents worth in here- tabs are great [i use them quite a bit]- but you gotta use your ears..

if you start relying only on tabs to get songs you can and want to play- you will start to be liek a classical musician who can't get their faces out of music.....

try to figure it out before you get the tabs... [it is the way chris and sean probably would approach the problem] the more tunes you learn by ear- the better you will get at sounding them out- and eventually you will be a power house at figurign cords and tabs of songs you like..

sooo.. try sounding out first, then consult the tabs for questions or double checkin.... you will learn 10 times more...:cool:

[Banjo_Ken]

I've got to agree with Matt here, at least to a point. I think being able to read (and I mean both notation and tab) is an important part of being a musician. The ablilty to learn by ear, though, is essential. It depends what you want to learn. For the mario theme, you should try by ear first, and then consult the tab if you can't get it. When I started learning the Bach violin Sonatas and Partitas on mando, I didn't even think of learning by ear! You need the printed music for that sort of thing.

Ken

[Eric18]

I know this will sound stupid... But what is the Mario theme? Are you talking about the theme from the Super Mario Bros games, or somthing?

[matt the fiddler]

i jsut finished a run of beethoven's 9th and all i can say is learnign that from ear would totally stink.90 some mins.. .. near impossible... a few conductors do it from memory- but they have the score to study first.... classical worlds are different than folk worlds... yet both i think can learn a lot form each other, and have been the last 10 years especially.... take edgar meyer or bela fleck, mark oconnor, yo-yo ma, or chris thile for example- a lot of cross over has been done there- and it is starting to filter it's way through everyone- [i auctually had a pretty long classical style jam/ improv sessin this summer- a first time for me- but that was pretty cool!]-a nice break form the standard celic and bluegrass tunes that get played at jams....

but anyways... there is a balance. i find most people i know are more extreme to the relying too much on music..... but then again i am at a classical oriented school.....

[nitejule]

my friends and i in highschool our senior year which was 2001, we were all in band. we all played to saxaphones. i played tenor, laurie played bari, & levi played alto; we did the mario brothers theme on our saxes when we were bored in band. it was pretty kewl it was a little medley! we did inspector gadget too!

[NickelCreekFan1]

i've been working on the mario theme for about a wekk now..but my one problem is that i didnt know the whole melody ..only the main part, and i like what ive picked out so far. I mainly only play by ear and barely ever read music and tab, even though i have alot of both, i enjoy picking out things by ear. so far, ive picked out most of Big Sam Thompson by ear, and part of Bridal Veil falls..oh! and This Side, the mandolin intro i did all by ear, and when i checked on a tab, it was all correct, so i'm pretty damn proud of myself[noise]

[Bart Simpson]

Yahh Chris has been playing the Mario theme for years on stage. I remember hearing it a long ways back. He loves Mario. Actually come to think about it the last time I talked to him he was debating what system had the best version of the game.

[Thilefan]

When I first started playing mandolin, I basically just used tab. However, as time passed, I found that my ear was almost better than tab. And, now, I find that I can learn a tune by ear 10 times quicker and more precisely than with tab (and many times, I find that the tab is very flawed). I learned the 'Mario Theme' about 6 months ago, and it is a lot easier by ear. I have also learned several classical pieces since then (Such as Perpetual Motion (By Paganini), a Bach Partita (As performed by Mike Marshall), a classical violin solo piece (also by Paganini) by ear with little to no difficulty. I agree with Matt 100%, the ear is the best way to learn. Develope the ear, learn the music.

However, there are exceptions to this. One particular song I had a very difficult time tabing out was Sean Watkin's Tune Ferdinand the Bull (For the guitar). The solo was so full of bass, it was difficult to disipher the guitar solo; in cases like this, it's very nice to have tab to double check with.

-Robin

P.S. Oh yeah, I forgot... I also find that when I use my ear, I am able to put a more emotion into my playing. When I read off notation or tab, it is often just blah. (I.E. A random convergance of notes in a row).

[creaker]

Is that Tab Edit program only usable on Macs?

[mandofocus]

No.
TablEdit can be used on both PCs and Macs.

Respectfully,
PJ :cool:

[creaker]

I found out I was at the wrong website (Tabedit.com) because when I tried Tabledit.com first time nothing came up. I finally found it and was able to download it but now I have another question. I found a Mario Bros. Theme MIDI and downloaded it got it into tabledit and transfered the clarinet part into tab (while the tab was set for mandolin) but it only got me like the bass notes and has frets that are non existant. Should I find another MIDI or is there a setting or something?

[J. Marie Hall]

hey,

i'm enjoying the back and forth b/w classical and ear-trained styles. i personally find myself very compartmentalized, and i would _love_ to be less so.

as a little one, i did everything by ear. i was terrible with piano lessons b/c i didn't want to discipline myself to work with the sheet music. i always sing by ear too.

then i started flute and have always played it traditionally and classically.

i'd like to be able to do whatever whenever. for me, where i have the trouble is even knowing where to start when i want to risk playing along with my flute or even thinking of improvising. improvising was _almost_ fine b/c i was in and out of keys i read on a page and knew plenty of filler runs etc.

i'd really like to jump into other flutes and whistles with as much as i enjoy celtic music. granted, i need to work out my fingers and chops again to a decent level (since i've been out of it for too long).

so how the heck to you just train yourself...is it as simple as taking risks and practicing lots? is there any other advice you have from experience?

thanks,
j. marie