I’m obsessed with Kebyo, pls help.
all I have are the creature tabs but I don’t really like it.
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Welcome to the dark side.
When it comes to visual kei tabs, pickings are slim. If it’s not on Songsterr or Ultimate-Guitar, it likely doesn’t exist. If you want to play these kinds of songs, you’re gonna have to sound it out. After all, a tab is just someone else’s best guess of how a song should be played (unless it’s official of course).
The first step is to figure out what key the song is in. The key will suggest the tuning. Scales and modes are a bit harder to explain, but once you wrap your head around those concepts, figuring out the scale and mode the song is in tells you what notes are “in” and what notes are “out”. I’m not quite there yet myself, but I’m beginning to understand how this part works.
It simplifies the following guesswork, because if you know what notes you’re supposed to hit you play around with those until you work out the basic melody.
Considering it’s this song, I agree with the tab on Songsterr. The song definitely is in B Standard, and this is backed up by watching the Parade MV and watching the guitarist’s hand positions. He definitely does the traditional power chord, and he is on six strings. Even the bass tab has him on five in B.
What do you not like about it?
I guess my follow-up question is if you are ready to commit to tuning your guitar in B. That’s a full fifth down from where the guitar is normally at. My six string can’t go past C without the strings getting floppy and the tone getting bad. You would have to commit to getting thicker strings, maybe widening the nut, and getting the truss rod adjusted and the guitar intonated. Widening the nut is a permanent process, the others are reversible, but this is the kind of thing you don’t want to do often.
If you have a second guitar sitting around, by all means experiment with alternate tunings and grow as a musician. But if you are where I think you are, you’re better served by staying in E Standard for a while longer. There’s a lot to learn and make sense of before you can effectively translate it into alternate tunings; even if hand positions don’t change, the names of any scales or chords you play are going to change and if you don’t have a common frame of reference you will be lost.
So finding visual kei is hard enough. Finding visual kei in E Standard that’s also relatively recent? Good luck.
Seriously.
I hope you like 鐘ト銃声, since they fit the bill, but I only have one tab for you.
So we’re back to figuring out how to play the song by ear (which you should learn how to do anyway, it pays dividends). How to figure out if a song is in E Standard? Play the low E and if a song’s guitars are lower than that, it’s not in E. With time, you can figure out what Eb, D, Db, and C sound like. Drop C and C# in visual kei is common, and some are experimenting with extended range guitars. Anything lower than B is usually a seven string, which is why it’s surprising to see Kebyo stick with six in B Standard, but that’s not uncommon.
Your best bet is to go back in time and play stuff from two decades ago. Early the GazettE is a good blend of challenging and fun to play.
Using all that music theory mumbo jumbo that sounds scary but is really the key to unlocking the instrument (quickly), I was able to figure out Sodai Gomi by Anti Feminism in just a few minutes.
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