Bogus Tab sites!

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Bring Back Transfat!
I never learned to read notation. My loss.

Ok, so I go to these tab sites looking for music. Most recent point in case: I go to Tab World and there's one listing for Ratt's "Round and Round". Now, I've been listening to this song for half an hour trying to disect the rhythm, so I know the song pretty well. This guy calls for an A bar at the 8th with a D held at the 9th frett. Give me a fu#@in break! Not even close.
So I'm thinkin, is this song turned down a half step? I tune down. Nope, that's not either.
I try another song. Vandenburg's "Burning Heart". Again, not even close, even allowing for alternative tuning.

Bottom line: anybody got a link to a tab site with accurate translations?
 
Round and Round
I know they frequently tuned down and used drop D tuning.....

heres one that looks pretty accurate in regular tuning
http://home.pacifier.com/~jimd/rndnrnd.tab

as far as accurate tabs, its a crapshoot....i usually just do a google search

"ratt round and round tab" produced this one....

saw ratt with bonjovi and ratt with poison......damn i miss the 80's......
 
check out guitartabs.cc, it's the only tab site I go to and they usually have multiple tabs for the same song.
 
saw ratt with bonjovi and ratt with poison......damn i miss the 80's......
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I hear ya...in spades!

I was always (still am) a few years behind in terms of appreciation. :cool:
 
Still lookin' for someone with the ballls/time to translate Frampton's "Feel Like We Do" solo.

Anybody with the nuts to take this on? :cool:
 
99.9% of tabs on the internet are wrong.

It blows my mind to see some of the shit out there.

If you email me an mp3 of the solo, I'll give it a shot getuhgrip.
 
Don't ever trust internet tabs

I always try to TAB everything myself. Only with a peice I'm very uncertain off, I search for TABS to see different points of view, or to get started.

Your own ears are the best!
 
yes, most are wrong anyway and are often just some kid's interpretation. notice how many have some kind of cute disclaimer like "this is my first time tabbing" and "email me with corrections". despite that I must admit I've learned a load of material from the internet, mainly out of laziness though. your best bet is to not bookmark these tab sites, but search anew each time you're looking. always use an advanced search, and include title, artist and the words "guitar tab". that will prove more reliable than any given website collection. some will be accurate; some will be a joke; only your ear can discern.

and then there are those bogus 100 top tab sites and whatnot that all seem to point to eachother and ultimately reference the same posting. just search them out each time and you're better off than being pulled from one spam site to another.
 
No doubt there's some crap out there. In fact, even Gidge's favorite friday lesson site had some glitches. I forgot the guy's name, but he incorrectly transcribed the ending chord of the riff for Ozzy's "Miracle Man" and incorrectly played another note/chord in another song I'm familiar with.

However, as mentioned above, the tabs can provide a good starting point and sometimes are dead-on. For example, I was fortuante enough to find a perfect transcription of Iron Maiden's "Back in the Village." Tough song because of all the open string hammers and pull-offs. The TAB nailed it perfectly.
 
However, as mentioned above, the tabs can provide a good starting point and sometimes are dead-on. For example, I was fortuante enough to find a perfect transcription of Iron Maiden's "Back in the Village." Tough song because of all the open string hammers and pull-offs. The TAB nailed it perfectly.
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Probably because, as I did, the person who did the above tab had the "Powerslave" official tab book.

They're out there - and people who wish to complain about bad tab on the internet are usually the ones who are also unwilling to help support the band by buying the books.

I would kill for the official tab of Dream Theater's "Metropolis Part 1"
 
Hey Griffinator, check your Email.
Remember, you said you'd kill for it. Await further instructions. :D :D :D
 
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