Have you ever posted tab up on the net?

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Been searching, searching, searching for tab for the song "Salamander" by Jethro Tull from "Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young To Die" without success.

Sure, I can find eleventy seven pages purporting to be that particular tab, but every single one of them is a reproduction one of two separate partial attempts to work out the introduction (only), both these attempts being clearly wrong because they haven't worked out the tuning. The song must be too tough.

So then I go hunting the web looking for clues and clearly Ian Anderson ain't divulging the secrets to this particular tune.

This got me thinking, who are all these people out there posting tab for us lazy bastards who can't be bothered working things out for ourselves, and why are they so often incorrect in their tabbing and chording? I've lost count of the number of songs I've looked up where they have it 90% correct but also a few obvious gaffes where things veer away from minors and majors.

Incidentally, if anyone's even heard of Salamander, I think I have the tuning worked out.. it's good old DADGAD, capoed at 3.

Can someone get onto this and work the rest out for me? Think of it as a challenge and let me know when you've finished.

Cheers
 
I don't know who these people are but many of them SUCK. It cracks me up when the author puts a little note at the top like: "I'm positive this tab is 100% correct!!!"

It's almost always not even close to 100% correct.

I can usually quickly determine which tab is pretty accurate... and then I use that as a starting point to figure out the song myself.

However, every now and then you will find a real gem that was transcribed by someone who knew what they were doing. Those are cool. You might try surfing Jethro Tull websites rather than just guitar tab sites. Some bands are even supplying access to tab on their websites. I know the Weezer website used to have a tab section (probably still does).
 
I once posted tabs on the net, and someone removed my name and took credit for it (bastard!!!!!).

have a look there: www.mysongbook.com
you will need guitar pro, but it's too good to let this pass.
TABS SUCKS. with this one the song is played in midi, so you ear exactly whats wrong and what's not.

I tab every song of my band with this prog, and use it to record 100% correct drum, without getting my drummer go crazy about it's inability to play with a metronome.
 
Scottgman said:
It's almost always not even close to 100% correct.

I can usually quickly determine which tab is pretty accurate... and then I use that as a starting point to figure out the song myself.
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Agreed, that's what I use tabs for.

I don't know if it's BS or not, but someone told me that a lot of tabbers deliberately put mistakes in their tabs to avoid infringing the copyright.
 
Mr songwriter said:
I don't know if it's BS or not, but someone told me that a lot of tabbers deliberately put mistakes in their tabs to avoid infringing the copyright.
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Yeah, I'm going to go all out here & call bullshit on that one. I usually run across tabs done by what seems to be mildly retarded fifth graders.
 
I find 70% of tabs are pretty accurate. 'tabuniverse' is a good one to go to. Pretty good for just getting chords and stuff like that. It's gotten more into lead transcriptions over the years.
 
You have to take them for what they are (& what they cost)

When I'm looking for them, It's usually because I have a song or a riff stuck in my head that I don't have the CD for...and I just want to figure it out quickly, or what a certain chord is, or just what key it's actually in.
 
www.powertabs.net is the place to go.

The editor is free and they have nearly everything and 95% of the tabs are perfect or close to it.
 
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