heard about guitar pro tabs ban? wow!

Dean Russell

so i went to mysongbook.com to have a look through the tabs, download something new to learn for the band. And what? i see that everything has a no entry sign attached to it and is unavailable for download due to copyright regulations. what's going on here?

firstly i think it important to tell anyone about to buy guitar pro to think twice - or at least check your mate has lots of tabs for you to copy other wise the software will be useless.

another thing. does this mean that all websites with tabs will in the future close down and the only way we musos will be able to do covers is by having to sit and listen to the cds?

this seems to me to be a major negative for both new and existing guitarists. anyone know any more about the state of affairs?

guitar3456

They've gone back and forth on that for a while. I hear it may be a permanent thing like when OLGA was shut down.

haven't used them in a while since I use the GNX and looper functions to grasp individual parts. For solos I got tired of misdirected tabs for the most part and made mp3's of solo sections for the GNX CF card.

I usually make a backing track to practice the solos that really helps. After about 10-20 loops, it's pretty close.

You can also slow the transcription you create in the loop using Pro Tracks if desired.

Better yet on the GNX4, you can disable certain backing tracks if you record them that way, then you can practice any part of the song.

Our drummer recorded all our songs on live kit, bassist did the same and I recorded my parts for them as well as the other guitarist in our band. Those parts and vocals. Even vocals are omitted for each player's part. Some members live over 50mi from here and with gas expenses etc, we simply made backing tracks and now can have rehearsals at any time. Took a couple of CF cards for 94 songs but it works well. Their BT are on their PC and they just dial them up. Others made CD's of the band after omitting that players part.

We create a set for a show and simply practice at our leisure. The band has become very tight since we started this method over tabs, or other things. besides the fact that we change many songs tunings and other things like medleys and stuff.

ednrg

Not only GP tabs, but Powertab, and any other tabs. The DRM bill was written so vaguely, that tabs are considered reverse engineering music, thus piracy.

As idiotic as it seems, that's what's going on.

smegolas

well thats just f*ing great - i just bought the software because powertab was shut down but GP was working

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shredd

I'ts like I always say - if there's money in it, someone's going to get their hooks in, no matter bad the rest of us get f****d.

Manitou

\shredd\ wrote:

I'ts like I always say - if there's money in it, someone's gong to get their hooks in, no matter bad the rest of us get f****d.

I agree with you, and these were my thoughts as well.
It's like GuitarOne magazine. Use to be filled with patches, tabs and truely informative info. Now it's like you are subscribing to a Musician's Friend catalog. This annoys me to no end, and now it seems I receive the magazine/catalog and never even look at it. It's just page after page of ads, and even some of the articles are ads in disguise.

It's always about money...once a \"good thing\" gets people involved...the Corporate geniuses come along and ......

Cobaltblooz

HA!!! I have the last post and WIN THE PRIZE!!!!!.....Huh???....oh, wrong thread.....

Manitou

tsk..tsk..tsk....bad man...very bad...no prize for yoooo!!

jat061

MySongbookGuitar Pro library:

http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=ZUMGS4ME

mfergel

One of these days, I'm going to write the various guitar magazines a letter. I have subscribe to most of them since the 80's. Over the years, I can't even begin to tell you how many times they've reprinted the same damn tabs. I am so sick of seeing Crazy Train, Back in Black, etc. Geesussss.....There are how many songs in this world yet the magazines have limited what they print to about 10 dozen over and over and over and over and..........

iliace

\mfergel\ wrote:

One of these days, I'm going to write the various guitar magazines a letter. I have subscribe to most of them since the 80's. Over the years, I can't even begin to tell you how many times they've reprinted the same damn tabs. I am so sick of seeing Crazy Train, Back in Black, etc. Geesussss.....There are how many songs in this world yet the magazines have limited what they print to about 10 dozen over and over and over and over and..........

Not to mention the same lessons and various other materials, really only the fashion changes. Every new up-and-coming guitar hero, in their lesson interviews, give pretty much identical instructions in many cases. As Nigel said, \"They have to, to keep the circulation going.\"

grathan

And there is prolly someone financial dude (who does not play guitar) with graphs displaying how sales of mags with Back in Black tabs are 10% higher than those with orginal tabs and lessons.

Dean Russell

just found this site which is still operating. spent about 30mins downloading stuff i might be interested in in the future. recommend doing the same before they get shut down too.

http://eng.digitalsounds.de/gtp.php

WOGS858

thanx for the hook up dean---I just killed some memory :twisted:

Tyrant

I believe the Powertab archive is now over at Ultimate Guitar. Seems they have paid for the right allow downloadable tab.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

archon

i can sort of see what they mean though - in the old days, back when the internet was in black and white and came in a bacolite box with valves - if you wrote a song prople could buy your single or pay to see you perform it or they could buy the tracnscription - of course people cant read music anymore so they use tab - but you can still buy authorised tab.

but i dont mind supporting bands i like - i happily pay for albums or authorised transcriptions, i dont like copying cds because i think its a bit cheap of me - but most tabs in magazines and on the net are completely innacurate anyway - incomplete and totally not like anything the band was actually playing - i dont mind seeing the back of them!

The guitar magazine tabs are also just some guy lisyening and transcribing as far as i can make out because they all have different renditions of the same song - they're an invaluable starting point for people who are trying to get a handle on a song or solo and just dont even know where to begin but if its not authourised its always bad quality - and i know its hard work trying to figure out EVH by ear - its basically impossible for most of us mortals, tab in this case is pretty much neccessary i agree - but learning by ear is the reason why most of the guys we look up to are so good - because they have the basic skills/ear and feel developed in their bedroom listening to the same song over and over again for years trying to figure out what is going on in the track - its the old skool way of doing it - and it will help you play with other musicians and people to improvise crteatively - having said that i know jack and i basically still play \"in a box\" with the minor pentatonic so i guess i oughta shut up!

I still hate bad tab though - whats the point?