[6string]

Can you image if the greedy lawyers did this copyright garbage when music was first starting out, they would have copyrighted the C chord etc, music development would be so far behind that rock&roll would not have been invented yet.

[Buddy Love]

If the lawyers get involved they'll be looking for relatives of that first cave man who strung a piece of leather on a stick - to see if the family wants to sue.

At the border, instead of looking for guns or drugs they'll be tearing your car apart looking for guitar tabs. They'll probably have 'tab' sniffing dogs on duty.

BL

[6string]

do you think they'll have scanners and xray machines to see if people are swallowing condoms containing flash/jump drives with tab on them????

[allthumbs]

What bugs me is that the tab books are mostly by mainstream bands and artists. I would love to have a tab book of Kirks' cd and Arc Angels cd,but the publishers go by sales so that just isn't going to happen. A side effect of this move is that the music industry will be able to tighten its' control of what is available to consumers. If you can't find tab books for alt music, it makes it a lot harder for folks to learn it.

[Alfcarguy]

My 2 cents you don't need tab when you have the balls to figure the songs out for yourselfs, Yes I have bought tab books but you have to know which ones are the best, and stick with those. And about those tabs by private people that think there musicians, you know there crap but you build from what they started. There's tab books that are not out there that I wish were but it looks like I am going to have to do it myself and than give what I have for free to people cause I don't want to get into this copyright infringements. The stuff I wish was out there was Motley's Crue " Shout at the Devil album. Twister Sisters 2nd and 3rd album. And Dio's first 3 albums. But I guess I have to do it myself. I have GP4 and who knows how many tab's I have for it but, I enjoy at times to transcribe stuff myself, I have been working on Twisted Sister stuff and once I get those albums than I move on. But I think the art of music is lost through TAB, it takes me only minutes to learn a song using tab. For me tab is a down fall, it really takes no thinking to look at the numbers and to copy what is written note for note. But I have been playing long enough that most things I want to learn I do, its not that hard. But my ears are something I am working on so I can hear it and play it, so I can Tab it out for myself cause I don't like paying $20 for a book for like say one song.
And they don't make much stuff for the Blues these days, I like my Lightin Hopkins but finding the stuff, its possible but is what I am wanting out there thou. I have a hotrod to build I don't have the money to spend on Tab books anymore. But what I have found on the net and my tab books I have I think I am covered, excepted some of the stuff I have mentioned that I am going to tab out, and give out for free in the future. Like the Motley, Twisted sister , Dio stuff. Cause that is some good stuff there. And I doubt if you will ever see the whole albums tab out for those bands. I have looked for yrs and nothing so, in that I am taking it upon myself to make my own. Tab is a hold down I think and that is my own opinion. Its time for people to crack the egg and to eat what's inside of themselves and to prove, this is really not that hard.

[Buddy Love]

6string,

Then they'll be debates about WMT's - Weapons of Mass Tabs - and here we go again. Before I got my shovel out to bury my tabs in the back yard - just got this email from a tab site:

"Lyrics Lawsuits Dropped" - "After the recent news of the RIAA and/or MPA going after lyrics sites, they have quickly apologized to the sites they went after and resumed business as usual."

But from the news stories today the PMA is still going after sites next year. Where's my shovel?

BL

[6string]

Sorry Alfcarguy I can't follow your train of thought without derailing.
It has nothingn to do with having balls

[Alfcarguy]

I am just saying tab is for lazy people, I should know cause thats how I learned to play the guitar,but it takes more to try and learn the stuff yourself. More balls, Thats all.

[6string]

okay,
I don't agree, but okay

[missileman]

Originally Posted by Alfcarguy

I am just saying tab is for lazy people, I should know cause thats how I learned to play the guitar,but it takes more to try and learn the stuff yourself. More balls, Thats all.

I Guess that makes me lazy. I have no desire whatsoever to Figure it out myself.
I prefer standard notation but tab does fine in most cases.

[Alfcarguy]

There's also a hinderiing thing always learning by tab. Your like stuck in a box we'll say.
And you come dependent on it. In the late 80's and 90's there wasn't all this tab stuff, that comes so easy these days. And most of it was crap. But at that time I was young and wanted the quick fix and not have to spend the time learning a song getting to know the pattern there using. Say for instance the song by Minnie Driver: Fast as you can. Its a good song but no tab for it,or none that I know of, it comes down also well I could wait for someone to get the chordings for it or I can jump in and do it myself and not have to depend upon tab all the time. But get a little ear training in at the same time. So thats what I done. But also some of the stuff I was into way back like Metallica, Megadeth, Sabbath. Stuff like that you listen to it and you think how in the heck. So in that I became dependent on it and was stuck in my little box. And would never try to work out a song for myself. But one thing I did have going for me was I played lead, in the bands I was in or playing with another guitar player. So that helped me see some patterns or helps me. I am just trying to say why limit yourself to one thing. Here where I live most of these younger guitarist I met or what not most don't know anything about lead guitar ( they can not solo ) they may play okay or some what okay rhythm. This all is about growing and not staying in your comfort zones and you can't tell me you don't know what I mean by that. I had stayed in my comfort zone for years. But these day's if I hear something I like I take the time to figure it out, I've been going into some movies that came out on Showtime a few years ago and there was some songs I liked there's no way tab would be for them, so I knew I had to figure them out myself. In the late to early 90's a guy I knew bought one song for like $50 there's places that still do it. Any song you want they will sheet music it for you and some guitar teachers will do it but it comes with a price ( There Time ).