I just started playing acoustic guitar a month or two ago. I'm taking lessons with a teacher locally, but I also want to go out on my own and play with and learn some songs that I personally love.
Every single tablature website I have come across has been crappy, misleading, and absolutely swollen with annoying ads. All I want is to find tabs for my favorite songs. This is both a vent of frustration and a cry for help..
http://www.mysongbook.com/hp-home.htm
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/
Here are some that I use, but remember these are free sites and not sure you are going to completely get away from ads.
On mysongbook.com.. What does the little sign with the red circle and white line mean? Are those all the tabs that have been removed due to copyright issues? Because that seems to be tagged on every tab I look at.
On mysongbook.com.. What does the little sign with the red circle and white line mean?
"Providing some tabs - even made by ear - of copyrighted music is illegal. In order to respect the law, downloads have been limited to the [Composition] and [Competition] files. We are going to make our best to find a solution to offer music content without infringing copyrights. "
seems pretty clear to me.
have you checked our ESD here? https://www.guitarnoise.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=7
#4491....
I strongly suggest you access the ESD already suggested. If the song is not on there, post a request and you will likely get a reply or direction to a decent tab.
I started out on tab sites, and eventually learned that they did me more harm than good. I know it is a really cool feeling to be able to playa song you want to, but the contributions on this site are much more likely to be correct and usually include some real valuable tips on strumming, fingering, timing, etc.
Happy playing!!!
If you want accurate Tabs you could do a lot worse than go down your local music shop and buy them. Even if you're just after chord boxes and lyrics in a busker's book format, you can get 40 songs for a tenner of thereabouts in one book.
The Big Guitar Chord Songbook series are pretty good - 70 songs to a book
Best
A :-)
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Personally I've always used http://www.ultimate-guitar.com and never had an issue with excess of adverts, and each of the tabs is graded out of 5 stars so you can avoid the crappy ones easily.
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I usually just google the song title, band, and put tab in there too and google finds me several possibilities.
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I also use ultimate-guitar.com. They are starting to have more and more ads though.
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I also google. Odds are somebody has done a better job than you find on the tab sites and the tab sites tend to copy from each other.
I was looking for "so far away" by carole king and it is the worst tab ever. It isn't even close but it's on almost all the sites.
I've just learned to take a quick gander at the tab sites, put the mp3 on and slow it down and listen to it for half an hour. I can figure anything out this way.
I dont mind the ads so much as the crappy Tabs . it seems they are worked out by people just figuring it all out instead of having any real knowledge.
many times I hear things differently than tabbed.
I dont trust them.
use then as a guide only.
I dont mind the ads so much as the crappy Tabs . it seems they are worked out by people just figuring it all out instead of having any real knowledge.
many times I hear things differently than tabbed.
I dont trust them.
use then as a guide only.
i agree, i've always looked at tabs this way.
#4491....
A good site to look at it is http://www.chordie.com The tabs aren't any better than any of the other sites out there because Chordie is really just a meta site that links to all (or at least many) of the other tab sites.
Pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. - Ian Anderson
I've had really mixed results with free tabs found on the web.
I've had good luck using web tabs when I have a song that I want to figure out for myself or make up my own, simple, arrangement of. The tab helps out because it gives me the chords somebody else has already worked out and I go from there.
Likewise, I've come across some really good tabs that I can play songs from.
But I've come across a lot of web tabs that are confusing, or that are really poor arrangements. And I've found some that were just downright wrong - for example, a version of Bron Yr Aur that was written in standard tuning and which was just wacked. I worked for a week and couldn't get anywhere with it, then saw the first page of a commercial tab of Bron Yr Aur and realized that it was in an alternate tuning. I bough the tab, worked for an hour and it was almost like the song played itself.
I've gotten to the place where I'm willing to buy books or buy tabs from a pay site like Music Notes. A good tab transcription of a song you really want to play is well worth paying for. In fact, if I have to I'll buy a whole book of tabs for a single song. Web tabs are fun and great and a really cool thing but so are professional transcriptions.
My experience with 99% of the on-line tabs are that they are incorrect either slightly or grossly. I would and have bought tabs from music stores but not all that is perfect either. I'm really not sure were to get "correct" tab.
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