OK, so I'm a nerd. Now that that is out of the way, you'd be totally amazed at what Excel can do. Yea, you would think you would choose Power Point for slides, but Excel could turn your slides into a relational database. I've seen Excel used as a drum machine, not by me mind you, that's stupid, :) but it can be done.
@@charleswettish8701 I am a fellow dev, EE, and all around nerd. I know that could technically be done in Excel. But it would be like being given the task to write a hello world application in the language of your choice and deciding to come up with the spec for a new programming language, writing a compiler for it, and then make the Hello World application with your new language. And that is all you ever did with it 😂.
@@charleswettish8701 I am a fellow dev l, EE, and all around nerd. I know that could technically be done in Excel. However, it would be like being asked to write a “Hello, World” application using the language of your choice. Instead of picking an existing language you come up with the spec for a new programming language, writing a compiler for it, and then and then make a “Hello, World” application using your new language. And that is all you ever did with it 😂.
I don't know. The thought of making slides in excel seems kind of desperate to me. Merely writing the word PowerPoint, probably gives the writer of the script hives or something.
OMG, I'm so ashamed... I only just started trying to learn Disco Ulysses off of a tab just last week. I thought I'd get away with it, too, but Cory knew. Cory *always* knows...
That was freaking hilarious! I'm studying classical guitar, and I know a lot of classical guitarists have scoffed at Tab notation in the past, but things are definitely changing. Conventional sheet music can be annotated for guitar to convey most of the guitar specific information. And when it isn't, a lot of pieces for guitar nowadays include traditional notation with the equivalent tab underneath. Adapt or die.
Yeah, let’s face it- even as someone who has been playing since 1997, there are very few times I’ve had to read sheet music. But I started learning by ear almost immediately. I learned Walk Don’t Run by the Ventures as my first song but never tabbed it. Still remember how to play it!
Historically, a lot of early classical music was actually written using tablature for lute and other early string instruments and then only transcribed into staff notation at a later point in time.
The ironic part of the elitism is that tablature predates sheet music and is significantly more helpful for specificity, especially considering that different strings have different timbres and trying to sight read lead lines can mess you up if you needed to be in a different position to play the next part. The only real advantage of sheet music for guitar is it being more universal and being able to play other instrument’s pieces.
This is funny! I haven’t used tabs in years, but I have nothing against them. In my opinion, anything that helps somebody pick up an instrument is worthwhile. Thanks for posting it. It was fun!
Before the modern Internet, I used a University mainframe to search for Guitar Tabs for a roommate who was learning guitar. Always wondered what happened to that guy, now I know.
I don't even tune my guitar. that's how OUTSIDE OF THE BOX i am. I don't learn anyone else's songs, chord progressions, or even scales! when I hear a jazz song, it sounds so trite to me because they are all up and down the SAME OLD SCALES over and over. jeez, if everyone were as CREATIVE as me the world would be a much better place without all these ARTIFICIAL BARRIERS.
I like how you see the unethusiastic clapping from the coworkers' perspective, then the camera flips to Greg's perspective and they are enthusiastically clapping.
I'm just here to appreciate the sets and 3-point lighting; Top tier for comedy that would probably be just as funny without such high production values, but that is what pushed me over the edge to smash that subscribe button. Great sound too.
the feeling when you think the only thing holding you back is your guitar and you're sure getting a PRS would solve everything but you can't justify the 2K price tag so you settle for the next best thing? 😁
I've not heard that one, I thought it reminded me of Seven Days in the Sun by Feeder. I guess it's a pretty common progression. There is in fact a playlist here named "I V ii IV" with some amusing items, including two Semisonic tunes from the same album.
This is funny! 😂 i also find it funny that the hurrian hyms are basically a form of tablature. I wonder if they also suffered the stigma of using a sensible instrument specific musical notation 🤣
I would have said no on the promotion because I’m 100% certain there are better tabs than the one Greg printed on ultimate guitar. Come on Greg, cough up the dough for pro.
I feel like chords are a bit different, as long as you don't automatically need supplemental tabs to figure out the finger positions of each chord - you should always know how to structure each chord and it's possible variations.
I have played hundreds of songs and have a collection of 200+ favorites that I play frequently, but don’t ask me to up and play something without my guitar tab app open. Thank you guitar tabs.
Holy crap that was absolutely hilarious and for a very specific audience...I mean let's face it, that sketch would totally get rejected at SNL, but I bet everyone at Berklee and MI are LTFAO over it 😂
That ending feels like when you try to watch something when youre so sick you think youre dying and the tv is on and you try to pay attention to it to take the pain away.
I was recently disciplined for laminating my guitar tabs at work...Got a new job, also got a home printer now, too high profile to keep doing that at work.
I'm certain this showed up on my algorithm because of my recent guitar tab viewing habits. But, damn if I didn't see my boy Michael, as Greg, in the thumbnail and just hadta click.
I thought he was going to play the riff from "Beat It". That first office scene was too real, it was giving me office PTSD. I thought all guitarists used tabs...🔥
When you have 4 E's that are the same pitch but have different timbers because of string thickness Tabs are necessary. The Beef is the author repeating sections that could be shown in one bar and then x7 or whatever it is. (especially whole album song books, but I guess that is to make it a Book and not a pamphlet). Boss was hot, and the way he held the pick..... 7 years, really...
Quality tabs are great for particular fingerings or being able to get an accurate transcription for a really tricky song. I've started transferring my piano sheet music knowledge to guitar and I'm really enjoying playing notated works. Idk, playing by ear is an awesome skill but putting people down for using tabs is silly
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all year! As an engineering manager, I wouldn’t promote somebody who uses tabs either. (Of course, it’s a good thing that the VP who promoted me didn’t know about my dirty little tab secret…)
Guitarists used (and preferred) tablature for literally hundreds of years…. Fact. (It’s a more intuitive notation system for guitar, and anyone who disagrees is simply wrong.)
You mean I haven't been getting promoted due to my use of guitar tabs for the past 50 years!?!?? I thought it had something to do with my poor work ethic or belching during staff meetings!! Now I'm gonna have to call my union and get this straightened out!!😁
You put the slides together in Excel. 🤣🤣🤣 The actors played it so amazing. I don't know where Cory got the guys - they are awesome! Now stop looking at the tabs and writing non-sense comments, go buy Cory's 4th position guitar course academy! Just like I did. 😂
oh shit, i always worry about forgetting those print outs on the printer overnight. this week i forgot the printout of the second page of a song (that page was blurry in the full printout) good thing you could not see the title of the song, because it would have been grounds for termination. it was stair way to heaven.
I've been using tab for over thirty years. I even make my own at home and I'm still alive to tell the tale. It's not as harmful as the "experts" would have you believe. I never got a promotion though. 🤔
i'm in a unique position to comment on this as i just learned all the skills needed to play by ear. and i seem to have picked up intervals pretty quickly, so technically i can play anything by ear.... as long as i look up the root note before hand. rn, i cannot identify notes by ear. this results in playing a song that is recognizable, but kind of off.
So, as a Greg myself, my boss found some chord charts with tabs I had printed off for a couple of Pink Floyd songs I was too lazy to transcribe myself when I was involved in a Pink Floyd tribute band. In my case, it was DEFINITELY about the printer.
Keeping a pick in the necktie is genius. I’d give him a promotion just for that
Especially a classy pick like a Nylon Dava!
I know a lot of professional pen testers who would agree
Pfft. Necktie is amateur. You should see the places I keep picks!
@@SPDFRK i personally like keeping them up my arsehole
And he pulled out the guitar from his inventory too xD
I use bass tabs all the time, and that’s ok because a bass player would never be up for a promotion
😮
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
And as you can’t hear you instrument, you can’t use your ears. Smart
No, it's NOT ok...lol! Even if you're kidding! Learn to read real music. It will open up your ears and teach you about rhythm!
I once got promoted for having sheet music. Fired later for writing the string and fret number next to every single note
I bet Cory wishes he could write sick riffs like Greg
No One can ever imagine riffn out like Greg does
I thought it was Jerry
the real genius detail is when the drum track for Greg's Sick Riff hiccups along with his timing. slow clap.
singing: I know who I .... want to ... take me home!
The fact that his riff was just Closing Time by Semisonic is so good
Came here looking for this comment, wasn’t disappointed
Classic
Finally, the comment I was searching for
To whoever chose the font for the title of "Greg's Sick Riff" as Comic Sans, well played.
I've been a beginner guitarist 10 years 😭
And you still are man! Now that's dedication!
I haven't started yet - but I'm only 76, so....
25 years 😢
@@andrewt836 DUUUUDE! Me too! Did we just become best friends??!!
i've seen this comment on various places on youtube, reddit 10 years ago and i just thought it was a joke. i really understand this comment now
just fell to my knees at a guitar center
Laughed out loud 🤣
We all get old man. You may have a lawsuit though. Look into it.
I take this as a personal attack
Hahaha! Exactly what I was thinking!
This is his way of telling the musicians in his audience to “git gud”
#metoo
Damn guys he's on to us!
@@SPDFRK FUCK I KNEW IT
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Yeah.
“You put together these slides in Excel?” Definitely going to have to check out the new functionality in Excel 😂
OK, so I'm a nerd. Now that that is out of the way, you'd be totally amazed at what Excel can do.
Yea, you would think you would choose Power Point for slides, but Excel could turn your slides into a relational database.
I've seen Excel used as a drum machine, not by me mind you, that's stupid, :) but it can be done.
@@charleswettish8701 I am a fellow dev, EE, and all around nerd. I know that could technically be done in Excel. But it would be like being given the task to write a hello world application in the language of your choice and deciding to come up with the spec for a new programming language, writing a compiler for it, and then make the Hello World application with your new language. And that is all you ever did with it 😂.
@@charleswettish8701 I am a fellow dev l, EE, and all around nerd. I know that could technically be done in Excel. However, it would be like being asked to write a “Hello, World” application using the language of your choice. Instead of picking an existing language you come up with the spec for a new programming language, writing a compiler for it, and then and then make a “Hello, World” application using your new language. And that is all you ever did with it 😂.
@@charleswettish8701have you seen the excel roller coaster simulator?
@@charleswettish8701 I've seen someone code up a flight simulator in Excel. Once you learn the Visual BASIC functions it's crazy what you can do.
It's like someone funded a full-blown short film just for me personally. WTF.
Making slides in Excel? This was clearly made by someone who doesn’t have a miserable existence making POWERPOINT presentations.
I don't know. The thought of making slides in excel seems kind of desperate to me. Merely writing the word PowerPoint, probably gives the writer of the script hives or something.
Slide guitar tabs
@@TheGlassgubben stop saying its name!!! If someone writes “PowerPoint” for a third time then we’ll summon it a-aw, _crap._
Made it funnier for me 😂
If he had charts, he could link the ppt to the Excel source. Iirc
A true rocker doesn’t have time to learn proper sheet music or any of that nerd stuff. Greg is keeping it real and wild with the tabs.
I don’t give a rats about guitar tabs, it’s his boss we should be talking about.
Maria Tornberg.
That's a damn sick riff you got there, Greg. Don't stop runnin' 'til you reach that somethin' golden.
OMG, I'm so ashamed... I only just started trying to learn Disco Ulysses off of a tab just last week. I thought I'd get away with it, too, but Cory knew. Cory *always* knows...
We all knew man. Just, Cory was man enough to say it is all.
I guess we're all ashamed now.
Vulfpeck songs are probably the best songs to learn by ear because the mixing is godlike and you can hear every instrument.
That was freaking hilarious! I'm studying classical guitar, and I know a lot of classical guitarists have scoffed at Tab notation in the past, but things are definitely changing. Conventional sheet music can be annotated for guitar to convey most of the guitar specific information. And when it isn't, a lot of pieces for guitar nowadays include traditional notation with the equivalent tab underneath. Adapt or die.
My takeaway was the Cory Wong wants us to learn music by ear
Yeah, let’s face it- even as someone who has been playing since 1997, there are very few times I’ve had to read sheet music. But I started learning by ear almost immediately. I learned Walk Don’t Run by the Ventures as my first song but never tabbed it. Still remember how to play it!
Historically, a lot of early classical music was actually written using tablature for lute and other early string instruments and then only transcribed into staff notation at a later point in time.
@@CousinPaddy I can kind-of sort-of play that on Ukulele.
The ironic part of the elitism is that tablature predates sheet music and is significantly more helpful for specificity, especially considering that different strings have different timbres and trying to sight read lead lines can mess you up if you needed to be in a different position to play the next part. The only real advantage of sheet music for guitar is it being more universal and being able to play other instrument’s pieces.
Say what you will but Greg sure can write a sick riff
I know who I want to take me home
I was pretty sick from it I know that much!
It's a nice touch that the printout of Tom Sawyer is from a notepad file made in 1998 instead of a
modern program like guitarpro.
This is funny! I haven’t used tabs in years, but I have nothing against them. In my opinion, anything that helps somebody pick up an instrument is worthwhile. Thanks for posting it. It was fun!
Before the modern Internet, I used a University mainframe to search for Guitar Tabs for a roommate who was learning guitar. Always wondered what happened to that guy, now I know.
Pick up an instrument and make music however you want. Methodological gatekeeping is just a way to create artificial barriers that discourage players.
I don't think the message here is to never use tabs, but there are some musicians (me) who could use a kick in the pants to give them up someday.
I encourage people to write their own music. Then you don't need to learn to read anything. Focus on using your ears and hands to make something new.
I don't know how people even begin to learn by ear, seems impossible, I've been playing for 4 years and write my own stuff all the time
I don't even tune my guitar. that's how OUTSIDE OF THE BOX i am. I don't learn anyone else's songs, chord progressions, or even scales! when I hear a jazz song, it sounds so trite to me because they are all up and down the SAME OLD SCALES over and over. jeez, if everyone were as CREATIVE as me the world would be a much better place without all these ARTIFICIAL BARRIERS.
@@inthefadeYou do need to read music to be able to write it though. That's the whole reason that people don't start by producing songs.
I like how you see the unethusiastic clapping from the coworkers' perspective, then the camera flips to Greg's perspective and they are enthusiastically clapping.
wtf did I just watch... no idea... Loved every second of it.
This guy uses tab for sure guys.
This feels oddly specific
Lotta people rely on tabs for longer than they should.
@@joeblankenship377gatekeepy, then
@@joeblankenship377 what are they supposed to move on to? Reading music? Or playing by ear?
@@joeblankenship377 lotta people give a fuck about other people using tabs for some reason
@@samuraidave1645 anybody who says you are "supposed" to do anything is such a goofball
A presentation made with Excel? Fuck the tabs, give that man promotion!
BRO why is the boss lady so fine I'M LOSING IT
I have no idea wtf this is or why you made it, but I'm so incredibly happy you did.
I'm just here to appreciate the sets and 3-point lighting; Top tier for comedy that would probably be just as funny without such high production values, but that is what pushed me over the edge to smash that subscribe button. Great sound too.
The PRS SE is a nice detail.
the feeling when you think the only thing holding you back is your guitar and you're sure getting a PRS would solve everything but you can't justify the 2K price tag so you settle for the next best thing? 😁
@@oyoraTell that to the majority of non-pro Gibson players lol. "Surely the burst will make me better"
This is a nightmare scenario that plays in my head, but it's when I talk to people who read sheet music.
The irony of Rush -- tab gets the job done QUICK.
This hits hard. I went to the same music school as Cory and have barely read anything but tab since my sight reading final 😢 Time to get back on it!
Cory does not approve of learning off ANY form of written music until you learn by ear.
Greg’s sick riff is the beginning of closing time by Semisonic
I've not heard that one, I thought it reminded me of Seven Days in the Sun by Feeder. I guess it's a pretty common progression. There is in fact a playlist here named "I V ii IV" with some amusing items, including two Semisonic tunes from the same album.
This makes me really glad the last time I used tabs I was in high school... I promise..
We all believe you. You're amongst friends here.
@@doglover31418 Stop coddling him. He needs to accept it.
Twenty years I've been playing.
Twenty years I've been using tabs.
This guy plays better than me.
This is top tier music content. Great job.
I LOVE how your sick mind works Mr. Wong. Bravo.
who cares if someone uses tabs if they're playing casually and having fun?
This is funny! 😂 i also find it funny that the hurrian hyms are basically a form of tablature. I wonder if they also suffered the stigma of using a sensible instrument specific musical notation 🤣
Cuneiform TAB is doubtless what led to the fall of Ugarit in 1185 BC.
@@chrishenson4450 XD
6 months of lessons is worth more than 20 years of tabs without the timing.
Hmm. Usually when Cory does a skit it’s in conjunction with a Cory and the Wongnotes episode. Are we getting a new season???
This is a skit from an old wongnotes episode
I would have said no on the promotion because I’m 100% certain there are better tabs than the one Greg printed on ultimate guitar. Come on Greg, cough up the dough for pro.
I have known how to read music for a very long time. If tabs work better at the moment. Use them.
How we feeling about looking up chords? Asking for a friend.
I feel like chords are a bit different, as long as you don't automatically need supplemental tabs to figure out the finger positions of each chord - you should always know how to structure each chord and it's possible variations.
This is guitar not firewood. Calm down man!
@@Khifler Ha! Nerd.
Always nice to see Maria Tornberg! (but I would like my blanket back . . .)
I knew it was bad at “Heyyy Gregg”
I have played hundreds of songs and have a collection of 200+ favorites that I play frequently, but don’t ask me to up and play something without my guitar tab app open. Thank you guitar tabs.
Holy crap that was absolutely hilarious and for a very specific audience...I mean let's face it, that sketch would totally get rejected at SNL, but I bet everyone at Berklee and MI are LTFAO over it 😂
That ending feels like when you try to watch something when youre so sick you think youre dying and the tv is on and you try to pay attention to it to take the pain away.
This speaks to me so much I’m just like the main character except I work from home now. I can play guitar tabs all day and nobody will judge me
Jeez Cory this cuts deep man😢
Dude jams with Matteo Mancuso for like 10 mins now we can't use tabs...pfft.
I was recently disciplined for laminating my guitar tabs at work...Got a new job, also got a home printer now, too high profile to keep doing that at work.
Fantastic!!!!! People complain its hard, but trying is what makes you better!
Greg should audition for Vulfpeck
“I’m not TELLING you to give up guitar tabs, Greg” LMAO
You know how you can tell he didn't really use guitar tabs? He played the song correctly.
Stay away from guitar tabs kids..
Love this guy! Give him a promotion! Give him a raise! Rock On!!!
Ok I need Cory to start producing compliance videos.
I'm certain this showed up on my algorithm because of my recent guitar tab viewing habits. But, damn if I didn't see my boy Michael, as Greg, in the thumbnail and just hadta click.
I was wondering how the hell this video came into my feed and realised far too late that this was a Cory Wong production.
I thought he was going to play the riff from "Beat It". That first office scene was too real, it was giving me office PTSD. I thought all guitarists used tabs...🔥
I thought at the end they'd see he had guitar tabs to his own riff on the desk while he played and then start booo'ing.
'Because'
Is this the wrong place to admit that I need tabs to play Mustang Sally?
The Wong place??? 😂😂😂
Mustang Sally will play you son.
When you have 4 E's that are the same pitch but have different timbers because of string thickness Tabs are necessary. The Beef is the author repeating sections that could be shown in one bar and then x7 or whatever it is. (especially whole album song books, but I guess that is to make it a Book and not a pamphlet).
Boss was hot, and the way he held the pick..... 7 years, really...
ok cory, comedy gold, even your misspelling of because becuase why not
this feels like a fever dream.
I like the Closing Time chords at the end
Aside from the Excel gaff, this was pretty clever.
The fact Greg has absolutely no rhythm really drives this point home.
I have an even worse addiction... TH-cam guitar tutorials! 😂
Quality tabs are great for particular fingerings or being able to get an accurate transcription for a really tricky song. I've started transferring my piano sheet music knowledge to guitar and I'm really enjoying playing notated works. Idk, playing by ear is an awesome skill but putting people down for using tabs is silly
This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all year!
As an engineering manager, I wouldn’t promote somebody who uses tabs either. (Of course, it’s a good thing that the VP who promoted me didn’t know about my dirty little tab secret…)
Guitarists used (and preferred) tablature for literally hundreds of years…. Fact.
(It’s a more intuitive notation system for guitar, and anyone who disagrees is simply wrong.)
You mean I haven't been getting promoted due to my use of guitar tabs for the past 50 years!?!?? I thought it had something to do with my poor work ethic or belching during staff meetings!! Now I'm gonna have to call my union and get this straightened out!!😁
You put the slides together in Excel. 🤣🤣🤣
The actors played it so amazing. I don't know where Cory got the guys - they are awesome!
Now stop looking at the tabs and writing non-sense comments, go buy Cory's 4th position guitar course academy! Just like I did. 😂
2:04 just killed me XD. Great video! Very funny!
Guitarists and musicians everywhere: Drop the ego
Hell yeah dude, sick riff
oh shit, i always worry about forgetting those print outs on the printer overnight.
this week i forgot the printout of the second page of a song (that page was blurry in the full printout)
good thing you could not see the title of the song, because it would have been grounds for termination.
it was stair way to heaven.
But I like not using my ears.
:( brain off, vibes on
I feel ashamed now, i've been a beginner guitarist since 2017 :'(
You and me both.
I've been using tab for over thirty years. I even make my own at home and I'm still alive to tell the tale. It's not as harmful as the "experts" would have you believe. I never got a promotion though. 🤔
This video has caused you to need therapy dude.
C'mon think on it . . .
You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.
Of course it's a PRS. Goes hand-in-hand with the TABS problem ...
I find that the people who are most adamant that you should play “by ear” are usually the people who play everything wrong.
i'm in a unique position to comment on this as i just learned all the skills needed to play by ear. and i seem to have picked up intervals pretty quickly, so technically i can play anything by ear.... as long as i look up the root note before hand. rn, i cannot identify notes by ear. this results in playing a song that is recognizable, but kind of off.
Damn Greg. First Of October has written songs about you.
Eh, at least he uses tabs instead of just going for the chords to kinda approximate a song like, uh, some people?
Guys never ever use ears.
With trained ears you be able to hear how fff bad your favorite bands playing. There is no way back.
So, as a Greg myself, my boss found some chord charts with tabs I had printed off for a couple of Pink Floyd songs I was too lazy to transcribe myself when I was involved in a Pink Floyd tribute band. In my case, it was DEFINITELY about the printer.
Hey Cory, love the video. Fyi you spelled because wrong on the title lol
I'm sure you meant he spelled it Wong
The color grading in this is immaculate
Once when Robbie Robertson was handed sheet music at a recording he said he was able to read it.
Hahaha Hilarious video and comedy acting!!!! Love it ❤ great job #1
The sad thing is if you remember when you had to buy a magazine to get tabs, and you're still using them (er...um, so I hear)