Woohoo! Free guitar tab!

[cracked lid]

I've been tabbing out music for 8 months or so using a freeware program called Power Tab which can be found here (http://www.power-tab.net/). The program lets you actually print normal looking tab rather than ASCI text. Plus, it has midi playback so you can hear it to make sure you got it right.

Now, since I didn't originally get it from this site I never knew it existed before today. Then I found it today and I noticed that it has links to other sites where people have tabbed stuff out already and you get to download it. YAAAYYYYYY!!! This one (http://www.powertabs.net/) has a ton. So now I have a bunch of new songs to learn. Woohoo!

Anyone else out there even play guitar, and if so what kind of guitar and what style of music?

I own a cheap fender acoustic (it was my first) which has been relegated to slide guitar duty because I recently purchased a Taylor 710 acoustic. For that plugged in sound all the kids are crazy about I use my Gibson SG special. I play primarily blues and classic rock but try to make sure to learn the popular romantic stuff for the ladies.:geek:

[Golden_Eternity]

I used to know the first four bars of any Metallica song that got radio play... I don't think that counts, though.

[Monte]

I can play the Staind song "Excess Baggage" - the "easiest song to ever learn (http://www.tabster.com/tabs/s/staind/excess_baggage.txt)" - does that count?

[GMAN]

I play guitar...acoustic/electric. I had a Takamine acoustic and a classic Fender strat before, but now I just settle with playing a Jackson stealth model.

I mostly play rock/metal, but I like to mix things up with a little blues, jazz, or classical nowadays. I used to love doing the 8-finger tapping, lightning speed arpeggios, pinch harmonics, wah-wah effects and all that, but my challenge now is experimenting with chord progressions.

As far as an amp, I had a nice Carvin full stack, but I sold that along with my other toys listed above. The only amp that I use now is a Crate practice amp (15w).

[Setter32]

...would any of you musicians.........be interested in creating some loops?.......

....I love to mix with Acid..........but it hard to get my hands on original loops..........since I'm not a musician.......I can't create my own.....

....if you have the loops..........I would love to play with them....



:D

[cracked lid]

Rod,

I am in the writing stages of putting my own album together and will shortly be setting up for home recording. When I get some decent equipment I can record some loops for you. Probably be another month or so.
I've also got a rythm track machine that will aloow me to do bass and drum tracks.

Hell, if you know how to mix I'll run a trade with you. I give you free stuff to loop, and you mix my album.

[Setter32]

....yeah baby........

....maybe we can get Gregg to jump in too.............he does some mixing too I believe...

....yeah..........that would be cool.....



:D

[Burst]

hmmm.... the possibilities are endless....

I need to get another copy of acid and fruity loops. when I had to reformat my hd I lost a lot of "shareware"..... :D

[Setter32]

...I got sharewares........



:D

[Punkbrad]

Warren, you do , Of Course, know about www.harmony-central.com right??

I play guitar - i have a fender strat electric with a Spider Amp. and an Epiphone accoustic.

[cracked lid]

Brad,

Been using harmony-central for years. I have a binder full of music from there. Problem with it is that the crappy ASCI tab is only useful if you are already familiar with the song, and making edits is a slow process. Oc course, the song library is unparalleled.

[GMAN]

What kind of tabbing program do you guys use? I use Bucket o' Tab, which works pretty well. There's even sound (midi) support for listening to your work. Kinda primitive, but oh well.

It's freeware now, but I forgot their web site. Should be able to google it.

[stingray]

i play, very infrequently, but mostly whatever is easy to learn :D green day (the 3 chord band) and nirvana are uber easy. play a coupla RATM songs (w/o fx, it doesn't sound half as good) and RHCP like scar tissue (no slide so i just do whatever)

if i applied myself, i would been decent @ finger picking songs cause i like the intricacies of using both hands to their utmost (wakkin' it is a 1.5 hand job ;)) if i started younger, maybe my rock star ambitions woulda came true...maybe. woulda been cool though. how many asian american rockers you see? the guy in smashing pumpkins and the guy in static X are the only 1's i know of.

forgot which tab program i used. i think it printed everything in ASCII though.

have a washburn acoustic (forgot the model). like the wide flat fretboard. LP studio w/ the dimarzio P/U super distortion rear and PAF Pro front. alright but i need a better amp. i think it's ernie ball .9's on it now. okay but too heavy and it's a narrow fat neck which i don't particulaly favor. have a strat knockoff i just tool around on. electronics are all messed up (no output when plugged) and the 1st string snapped a while ago.

[Yohan]

I used to do the garage band scene. I gave it up when I realized my drummer was.. well.. a drummer. :rolleyes: I've tabbed out songs before for a Greenday web-site. Check out some of my work-


http://www.greenday.net/interactive.html

I've got a Fender strat, a Marshall 60watt amp, and a few other things I can't rememeber at the time.

[Q]

Another site for those of you who are interested

www.olga.net

Just a personal thing, but I like it better than harmony central.

Yamaha acoustic... only been playing for about 5 years...

I had to pick the Yamaha because Suzuki doesn't make guitars...

[RobSD]

I use OLGA too...it's pretty much the granddaddy of tab archives and I'm able to find almost anything there. The quality tends to vary with the talent of the author, but at the very least it'll get you started...

I've got about 15 years experience playing and own an Alvarez acoustic and Clapton signature Strat :)

-Rob