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whats your favorite tab site?

#4
Songster isn't that good. If I'm paying for tabs they better be correct and songster tabs are usually wrong. The old site was better and free and could printvout and fix all the mistakes. We need a good peer to peer site started up!!!!!!!
 
#6
I like the Jammit app. It's a bit pricey for TABs ($1.99-$5.99) but they are dead accurate. The songs are from the mster tapes.

You can isolate the bass (pure isolation, without any bleeding of other instruments, loop sections and even record your own playing. They also have guitar, drum, keys and vocal TABs.

Since they're new, they don't have a lot of TABs yet and their selection is a bit lacking for my tasts, but they're adding new TABs each week.

The App itself is free for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It'll be available for Mac OS X in two weeks and for the PC in March.
 
#8
jabsys said:
Ultimate-Guitar for me, if you play popular music I've found most of the tabs to be fairly accurate.
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The tough thing is, we need to support the pay for tab sites too. Recording artists and songwriters depend upon protecting and being paid fairly for their intellectual property (their songs) to be able to continue doing so. I am a member of both BMI and ASCAP and believe strongly that we owe the guys that put the food on our cover band plates when asked to.

If you were in their shoes, you would see being a good guy and not charging for it only screws you the guy who created it. And for every Jon Bon Jovi, there is the Pastorius family. Jaco pissed everything away so many times, he died a broke fool. Nothing left to his heirs. His entire career basically for naught when considering the future of his loved ones. Although yes they are making some money from his estate, but it's not putting anybody in private schools money.

For the thousands of guys who can't afford it, and want to learn the music, I hear ya, it's tough, I washed dishes for my guitars once, I bused tables for amps, I cleaned the video booths at the adult arca....well never mind that.

For the thousands of us who actually get quick arrangements on the fly for being in a band that is getting paid for playing the songwriter's music, we darned well should be willing to pay something if required. I've never used online tabs to learn note for note stuff except for some signature licks I didn't want to spend time on.

I do agree it would be nice if they were always right, some are...most aren't. I keep using Ultimate-Guitar because it gets me in the ballpark quickly and then I mod the song as I work my way through it. I play nice big fat cover gigs and do get paid big fat cash, and I wouldn't have a problem paying should UG require that. But then again, I can spend an extra half hour charting it out from scratch like I do when i have to learn material not on UG. So while I would, I don't have to, so I might or I might not pay for it. But then again UG is free to use. And I do use it.

I do miss the old peer to peer sites. I do see the other side of the coin, you're actually helping to keep Alvin Lee remembered and honored when you download the tab to Goin' Home, or helping to keep alive that killer solo by Neil Geraldo on Pat Benetar's Heartbreaker or Leslie West's (RIP) ripping solo in Nantucket Sleighride. And for that tribute, I agree the fees should be more like 3 or 4 for $1 or something. But you should at least be able to look the arrangement over before paying to make sure it's not crap.
 
#12
I use ultimate mostly, as it looks like many were consolidated into it OR they've ended up with duplicate submittals. You can tell when a tab is the same work many times.

Lay it out, play along with a you tube by the artist, make corrections (almost always), look for a you tube bass cover of the same, etc.
 
#13
Bredian said:
I use ultimate mostly, as it looks like many were consolidated into it OR they've ended up with duplicate submittals. You can tell when a tab is the same work many times.

Lay it out, play along with a you tube by the artist, make corrections (almost always), look for a you tube bass cover of the same, etc.
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X2...and when that fails (which it often does) ears and simple theory cover the rest.
 
#15
Keithwah said:
The tough thing is, we need to support the pay for tab sites too. Recording artists and songwriters depend upon protecting and being paid fairly for their intellectual property (their songs) to be able to continue doing so. I am a member of both BMI and ASCAP and believe strongly that we owe the guys that put the food on our cover band plates when asked to.

If you were in their shoes, you would see being a good guy and not charging for it only screws you the guy who created it. And for every Jon Bon Jovi, there is the Pastorius family. Jaco pissed everything away so many times, he died a broke fool. Nothing left to his heirs. His entire career basically for naught when considering the future of his loved ones. Although yes they are making some money from his estate, but it's not putting anybody in private schools money.

For the thousands of guys who can't afford it, and want to learn the music, I hear ya, it's tough, I washed dishes for my guitars once, I bused tables for amps, I cleaned the video booths at the adult arca....well never mind that.

For the thousands of us who actually get quick arrangements on the fly for being in a band that is getting paid for playing the songwriter's music, we darned well should be willing to pay something if required. I've never used online tabs to learn note for note stuff except for some signature licks I didn't want to spend time on.

I do agree it would be nice if they were always right, some are...most aren't. I keep using Ultimate-Guitar because it gets me in the ballpark quickly and then I mod the song as I work my way through it. I play nice big fat cover gigs and do get paid big fat cash, and I wouldn't have a problem paying should UG require that. But then again, I can spend an extra half hour charting it out from scratch like I do when i have to learn material not on UG. So while I would, I don't have to, so I might or I might not pay for it. But then again UG is free to use. And I do use it.

I do miss the old peer to peer sites. I do see the other side of the coin, you're actually helping to keep Alvin Lee remembered and honored when you download the tab to Goin' Home, or helping to keep alive that killer solo by Neil Geraldo on Pat Benetar's Heartbreaker or Leslie West's (RIP) ripping solo in Nantucket Sleighride. And for that tribute, I agree the fees should be more like 3 or 4 for $1 or something. But you should at least be able to look the arrangement over before paying to make sure it's not crap.
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By those standards its wrong to learn a song by ear as well.

Tabs are some guy showing you his stab at transcribing the song. Whats the difference if you transcribe it yourself? Paying for tab like that seems dumb. I'll buy a book if its really that tough for accurate notation.
 

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