What is the best Tab site?

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I have tried tab universe, they are ok but are missing a lot of songs.
 
olga (online guitar archive) at harmony central has been around forever and has lots of tabs.
 
Ultimate Guitar Tabs is not too bad, as well as lessons and gear reviews etc.
 
bongolation said:
Enjoy them while you can -- MPA is shutting them down.

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What the hell! Heck, if they don't make them obsolete they'll make you pay for the tabs/lyrics. THAT is legal.....I suppose. Paying to have someone tab out a song or compose the lyrics.Hell, as a musican, if I had my music playing on the radio and TV, I could care less if people TAB my songs or write the lyrics.....heck, I think it's a good sign people like it!?

As far as good TAB sites.....I've always used mxtabs.net, or taborama.com. If it isn't at one, it's at another.
 
Now that they're all getting shut down, I guess we'll have to wait a few months to see what new pay sites come up. Very annoying. The music industry can't stop shooting itself in the foot, can it.

Like the music industry has any viable alternative to these tab sites? Not every band has tab books available, and even if they did, $20 to buy a book of tabs when all you want is one? Even if you were willing to buy the book (and I have bought my share of tab books over they years), book stores don't carry them, and music stores have a very limited selection.

I hope that while shutting these other sites down, they have a tab service in place ready to go - either like itunes where you pay (a reasonable price) per song tab, or some reasonably priced subscription service. What is probably more likely is that they'll shut everything down and have no viable alternative in place ready to go.
 
That's fucking horse shit. Tabs are a interpretation or rather a description of a piece of music. It's fundamentally no different than saying that song is in 4/4 time, or is in the key of D. Musicians are already protected against plagerism, so it's not like someone is going to learn a song from tab and sell the recording. I can see shutting down mp3 sharing, I mean that's a carbon copy of the music, but tab? Com'n.
 
www.911tabs.com

It searched a bunch of tab sites, but doesn't maintain its own. It also looks for guitar pro and powertab files.

As far as the music industry goes, they're just keeping their jobs by making it harder (and more costly) to enjoy your favorite songs.
 
But they do it in such a short-sighted way. Here's an example. Cover band decides to learn XYZ Song. Cover band plays XYZ Song at a gig. Member of the audience hears XYZ Song and thinks, "I haven't heard that one in a while, I really like that." fan goes home and buys XYZ Song off iTunes. Artists make money. iTunes makes money. Recording industry makes money. Cover band can spend its time learning and practicing songs and not figuring out the song from scratch.

That's exactly what happened to me this past weekend. At a gig. Heard Dick Dead Eye's "New Age Girl". Thought, oh, I love that one - I need to pick that up. Went home, went on iTunes and bought it.

But tab is also educational, and here's where I hope the recording industry gets slammed. I'd love to see tabs fall under a fair use exception for education or something like that.
 
i dont know if this has been said

but guitartabs.cc is usually reliable, but wont have everything
if i cant find somthing there then i go to mxtabs.net (think thats it)
and then just basic google search for *insert artist* tabs.
powertabs is good if you have the extra time and room to download the program which is free and defidentally cool.
so you should check it all out

later man
 
Monsoon said:
But they do it in such a short-sighted way. Here's an example. Cover band decides to learn XYZ Song. Cover band plays XYZ Song at a gig. Member of the audience hears XYZ Song and thinks, "I haven't heard that one in a while, I really like that." fan goes home and buys XYZ Song off iTunes. Artists make money. iTunes makes money. Recording industry makes money. Cover band can spend its time learning and practicing songs and not figuring out the song from scratch.

That's exactly what happened to me this past weekend. At a gig. Heard Dick Dead Eye's "New Age Girl". Thought, oh, I love that one - I need to pick that up. Went home, went on iTunes and bought it.

But tab is also educational, and here's where I hope the recording industry gets slammed. I'd love to see tabs fall under a fair use exception for education or something like that.
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Yea, the industry misses a lot of stuff like this. It's a shame they're ruining music for us musicians.
 
IronFlippy said:
Yea, the industry misses a lot of stuff like this. It's a shame they're ruining music for us musicians.
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The whole thing about copy protecting CD's still baffles me. Let me get this straight - if I buy the CD from the store with my hard-earned cash, I can't load it into my iPod or play it on my computer without installing your special software/malware and it also might not play in my car, but if I just download it from a P2P network for free, I don't have any of those restrictions? WTF???!!!!

The collective wisdom of the music industry is mind boggling.
 
I find most TAB sites to be horribly wrong. Sometimes, they might get you in the ballpark, but you might as well just learn it on your own.

I think, however, that the song's rights should always belong to the artist. Even if it's an "interpretation"... it's still an 'version' of a recorded, protected & copywritten work. You'll notice that guitar mags always have the copyright information listed at the top. There's a reason for that.

I hope a Database of TAB becomes available like itunes so you may download just what you want. That would solve a lot of issues, I think.

And although there were some companies who screwed up by "digitally protecting" their product... I haven't found one CD in my 1500+ collection that won't go into my iPod without a problem.

I do hate it, that the Recording Industry is hitting a brick wall. I think they're trying to hold on to power that is slowly slipping from them.

That's OK... I peronally think the majority should go to the artist!!!

Peace!
Chad
www.thelogicmusic.com
www.chadaustin.com
 
ChadAustin said:
I find most TAB sites to be horribly wrong. Sometimes, they might get you in the ballpark, but you might as well just learn it on your own.

I think, however, that the song's rights should always belong to the artist. Even if it's an "interpretation"... it's still an 'version' of a recorded, protected & copywritten work. You'll notice that guitar mags always have the copyright information listed at the top. There's a reason for that.

I hope a Database of TAB becomes available like itunes so you may download just what you want. That would solve a lot of issues, I think.

And although there were some companies who screwed up by "digitally protecting" their product... I haven't found one CD in my 1500+ collection that won't go into my iPod without a problem.

I do hate it, that the Recording Industry is hitting a brick wall. I think they're trying to hold on to power that is slowly slipping from them.

That's OK... I peronally think the majority should go to the artist!!!

Peace!
Chad
www.thelogicmusic.com
www.chadaustin.com
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But man, tabs are just an interpretation of how a random person thinks a song is played. You have to pay money to perform a song and i guess i can grasp that. but to say you cant look up how joe shmoe thinks a song is played is like having warner brothers handing me a bill for singing one of their songs in the shower. I dont want to be charged for an opinion which was only ment to aid in my path of playing my favorite song (for ex). Tabs are ment to be a guide line.

Also, im not trying to argue but, instead of charging rediculous amounts of money for songs, why cant the industry focus on live entertainment. Because that is how you can really hear what the artist sounds like. and it might weed off the untalented, fake artists who sadly have made it big.

Just my two cents,
 
Why not get the best of all

www.tabrobot.com

Personally I try to figure out the song on my own then go to a tab site to check my interpretation with others.

I usually go to mx tabs though.

ps. I hate tab.
 
I don't have the time to sit down and figure it all out. Nor do I have the patience. I can squeeze in one, maybe two hours in a practice session, and that's not even every day. That session is enough time to learn a song using tab, maybe even two songs depending, and practicing it/them enough to commit it/them to memory. It would take me a week of sessions to figure out a complicated song, and I've lost out on all that practice time.

Even if it's a pretty bad tab that just gets me in the ballpark, they've saved me a lot of time.
 
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