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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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!
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'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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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'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. 🤔
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.
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 😂
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.
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!!😁
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.
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. 😂
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!
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 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
I once got promoted for having sheet music. Fired later for writing the string and fret number next to every single note
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.
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'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 😢
46 years here, but I have a bunch of nice new equipment now and turns out It wasn't the old guitar or the old amp.
@@andrewt836 DUUUUDE! Me too! Did we just become best friends??!!
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
“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.
I don’t give a rats about guitar tabs, it’s his boss we should be talking about.
Maria Tornberg.
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
It's like someone funded a full-blown short film just for me personally. WTF.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Yeah.
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!
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's a damn sick riff you got there, Greg. Don't stop runnin' 'til you reach that somethin' golden.
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.
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
Pick up an instrument and make music however you want. Methodological gatekeeping is just a way to create artificial barriers that discourage players.
i've never used tab in 45 years of playing and i agree 100%.
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.
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.
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!
wtf did I just watch... no idea... Loved every second of it.
This guy uses tab for sure guys.
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"
I have no idea wtf this is or why you made it, but I'm so incredibly happy you did.
A presentation made with Excel? Fuck the tabs, give that man promotion!
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.
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.
BRO why is the boss lady so fine I'M LOSING IT
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 knew it was bad at “Heyyy Gregg”
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.
'Because'
The irony of Rush -- tab gets the job done QUICK.
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.
This is top tier music content. Great job.
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.
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.
I have known how to read music for a very long time. If tabs work better at the moment. Use them.
Hell yeah dude, sick riff
I LOVE how your sick mind works Mr. Wong. Bravo.
this feels like a fever dream.
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.
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
Is this the wrong place to admit that I need tabs to play Mustang Sally?
The Wong place??? 😂😂😂
Mustang Sally will play you son.
Jeez Cory this cuts deep man😢
This is a nightmare scenario that plays in my head, but it's when I talk to people who read sheet music.
Very funny.
Love the style. I want more
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 enjoyed this short comedy skit
Sick riff bro
This is oddly specific I love it
Greg should audition for Vulfpeck
who cares if someone uses tabs if they're playing casually and having fun?
I have an even worse addiction... RUclips guitar tutorials! 😂
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.
6 months of lessons is worth more than 20 years of tabs without the timing.
Fantastic!!!!! People complain its hard, but trying is what makes you better!
This is brilliant! 😅
Sick riff: 2:26
Twenty years I've been playing.
Twenty years I've been using tabs.
This guy plays better than me.
ok cory, comedy gold, even your misspelling of because becuase why not
Pedal steel copedent chart has left the chat
this cut me straight to my very soul
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 . . .
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 like the Closing Time chords at the end
I don't get what Cory was doing in this video
But I like not using my ears.
:( brain off, vibes on
Hey Cory, love the video. Fyi you spelled because wrong on the title lol
I'm sure you meant he spelled it Wong
Goddammit I really needed to hear this.
Brilliant!
Dude jams with Matteo Mancuso for like 10 mins now we can't use tabs...pfft.
You know how you can tell he didn't really use guitar tabs? He played the song correctly.
This is amazing.
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 😂
2:04 just killed me XD. Great video! Very funny!
Hahaha Hilarious video and comedy acting!!!! Love it ❤ great job #1
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
Greg's riff is the sickest
“I’m not TELLING you to give up guitar tabs, Greg” LMAO
Ok I need Cory to start producing compliance videos.
Always nice to see Maria Tornberg! (but I would like my blanket back . . .)
There's a spelling mistake in the title of this video
Cory became a businessman, haha👔👍👏👏👏
This was amazing 🎉
Hey man. Happens to the best of us
Every casual guitarist.
I left a like for the SE
Love this guy! Give him a promotion! Give him a raise! Rock On!!!
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.
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!!😁
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.
You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.
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. 😂
Aren't you the guy selling Tabs to his own songs on his website? I feel seen. I used those Tom Sawyer tabs to learn the song.
I feel ashamed now, i've been a beginner guitarist since 2017 :'(
You and me both.
As a PRS player I am offended but I also deserve it. Only unrealistic part is that it’s a SE.
Love my PRS SE :)
Great guitar!
Without that promotion, an SE is all he'll ever own!
I can only dream of ever owning a SE………😢