Where are you getting your tabs from?

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Working on some covers for a band, been using ultimate guitar.com, is there a better tab site out there? Thx in advance....
 
most other searches I find, always show tabs that are posted there already. Best site I've used. Just use common sense to weed through the idiots that constantly post stuff as their first tabs, and guarantee its right cause they played it with the tracks. lol....
 
Is songsterr a free site? On my IPad it's asking me to pay for an app....
 
Another Songsterr user here. The ability to loop sections and change tempo helps alot too.

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You are much better off using your ear than tab sites.
 
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severinsteel":i3h3wupq said:
You are much better off using your ear than tab sites.
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Most free tabs are wrong anyway. If there's some lead that I want to revisit I usually dig through my collection of old guitar magazines and look for the tab.
 
Yeah- the majority of tabs on Ultimate Guitar or similar generally suck. You can tell many are wrong without even playing thru them.

Like severinsteel said, you're better off using your ear. I wish I started doing that long time ago.
A slow downer app like Anytune is fantastic to learn faster parts.

If you're in a time pinch to learn songs or if the stuff is fairly complex, some paid sheet music sites like sheetmusicdirect.com have downloadable/printable tabs that are of pretty good quality (on par with guitar mags, if not the same transcription)
If you're an iPad user, Jammit has tabs that go along with the songs along while also being able to hear the isolated guitar part. Song selection is fairly limited, but they have some good ones.
 
If I need to learn something fast then I will jump on songster to get a rough idea then fine tune it by ear from there, but if I have time I will just listen to the CD's and sometimes use audacity to slow tricky bits down to learn um
 
Part of the reason folks think tabs are inaccurate is because there are 3-4 different ways to play the exact same thing on guitar. It is up to YOU the player to pick one that best suits your playing style.

Usually the notes are right but tabbed by a keyboard player who never touched a guitar so you'll see some near to impossible to execute phrases if you tried to play it like it was tabbed...i.e moving hand position 12 frets playing the note on one string vs string skipping playing ion one position.

Best bet is to just get the meat an potatoes down, rhythm, key and structure and then use your ear to adapt to your playing style. I don't think I ever played something exactly as it was transcribed and didn't really realize how different I was until I went through some old tabs and crossed out sections and altered them to make more sense to me and my technique.
 
Shawn Lutz":p0lgq9b8 said:
Part of the reason folks think tabs are inaccurate is because there are 3-4 different ways to play the exact same thing on guitar. It is up to YOU the player to pick one that best suits your playing style.

Usually the notes are right but tabbed by a keyboard player who never touched a guitar so you'll see some near to impossible to execute phrases if you tried to play it like it was tabbed...i.e moving hand position 12 frets playing the note on one string vs string skipping playing ion one position.

Best bet is to just get the meat an potatoes down, rhythm, key and structure and then use your ear to adapt to your playing style. I don't think I ever played something exactly as it was transcribed and didn't really realize how different I was until I went through some old tabs and crossed out sections and altered them to make more sense to me and my technique.
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Sure, but plenty are blatantly wrong. Some ever have a caption that often says, "this is my first tab ever, let me know how I did" :doh:

My friend was talking a class in GIT in the early 90's with Paul Gilbert and someone brought in a transcription of Scarified and Paul was showing which parts in it that were wrong.
 
Depends on the song, I usually do it by ear if possible, or get tabs and hit Songsterr to get the basics. Then find a live version on Youtube and try and see how it was done the put it all together in a way that sounds best to me.
 
I usually try to learn by ear first, youtube second then tabs last. If I can't figure something out I'll youtube "name of song guitar lesson" or "name of song isolated track" and use a couple different sources and follow what sounds best. I was just working on Zeppelin's Ramble On and showed the bassist the isolated bass track on YT. We were both floored at all the stuff JPJ was doing.
 
danyeo":37s43gck said:
Shawn Lutz":37s43gck said:
Part of the reason folks think tabs are inaccurate is because there are 3-4 different ways to play the exact same thing on guitar. It is up to YOU the player to pick one that best suits your playing style.

Usually the notes are right but tabbed by a keyboard player who never touched a guitar so you'll see some near to impossible to execute phrases if you tried to play it like it was tabbed...i.e moving hand position 12 frets playing the note on one string vs string skipping playing ion one position.

Best bet is to just get the meat an potatoes down, rhythm, key and structure and then use your ear to adapt to your playing style. I don't think I ever played something exactly as it was transcribed and didn't really realize how different I was until I went through some old tabs and crossed out sections and altered them to make more sense to me and my technique.
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Sure, but plenty are blatantly wrong. Some ever have a caption that often says, "this is my first tab ever, let me know how I did" :doh:

My friend was talking a class in GIT in the early 90's with Paul Gilbert and someone brought in a transcription of Scarified and Paul was showing which parts in it that were wrong.
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oh yeah I have seen those tabbed by deaf, dumb and blind kids :) I'm not talking about ones joe blows publish. I'm talking the song books, mags and such. PT- GT or user uploaded are hit or miss on note accuracy. Nothing is fool proof but avoid tabs posted by fools lol. Just as wikipedia is user updated and potential to be wrong :)
 
I'm not big on playing note for note, I'll use tab as a rough outline, I never play solos note for note.
 
Shawn Lutz":3llj8elu said:
Part of the reason folks think tabs are inaccurate is because there are 3-4 different ways to play the exact same thing on guitar. It is up to YOU the player to pick one that best suits your playing style.

Usually the notes are right but tabbed by a keyboard player who never touched a guitar so you'll see some near to impossible to execute phrases if you tried to play it like it was tabbed...i.e moving hand position 12 frets playing the note on one string vs string skipping playing ion one position.

Best bet is to just get the meat an potatoes down, rhythm, key and structure and then use your ear to adapt to your playing style. I don't think I ever played something exactly as it was transcribed and didn't really realize how different I was until I went through some old tabs and crossed out sections and altered them to make more sense to me and my technique.
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This!

I use tabs quite often (in a cover band and time is limited) but ALWAYS ALWAYS fine tune them by ear against the actual song. I merely use the tabs as a basis for getting started as Shawn stated.

As far as sites are concerned I use Ultimate Guitar quite often as I use Guitar Pro software and look for GP Pro tabs most of the time. The only problem (which is more recent) it that Ultimate Guitar is removing GP Pro tabs to satisfy major artists. Must be some kind of infringement or something, not sure. That said there are other sites to get GP Pro tabs from.
 
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