By the time you read this I will have uploaded an incredible 38 MEGS of tablatures (guitar) to my resuscitated tablature site (now hosted here with a nifty auto-index PHP script which I still need to tweak a bit, but it does the job). I had an old archive of tabs from a previous site, and decided to throw them up alongside the tabs I’d started posting in recent days. I’ve added them to a separate directory just so I can stay sane, but I may combine them at a later date… And they’re pretty much all Text files (I have a separate folder full of GuitarPro files that I’ll be uploading soon as well).
Enjoy…!
I’m still shocked there aren’t sites that have all these files that are easy to use… The only site I can consistently find tabs with is 911tabs.com, but its just a tab search engine, and it’s slow, and gives results only as links to other pages, not all of which are easy to navigate/download from.
And of course METALtabs is alright, but you can’t really download from them without going crazy, since all the files are named like 84472.txt and even the site structure itself uses whack urls like /band/14 for Opeth, instead of /band/opeth which would be much more user-friendly. Ah, someday I’ll get around to making a better one.
EDIT: OH, and the link is: http://apoc.buildtolearn.net/tabs/ Down for now…
WOW! There is tons of free guitar software out there… Even a handful of apps that can open GuitarPro files (prolly do a better job than the POS mac version of guitarpro). (These are either osx apps, LINUX apps that can run on OSX, or Web/Java apps). [All are usable at least under OSX, though at levels of functionality that I can’t yet say]
Found via Sourceforge.net
**TabView:”TabView makes it possible to view and print PowerTab tablatures. PowerTab is a well-known and widely adopted tablature editor for Windows systems. You can easily find thousands of song transcriptions in this format on the net. (OSX App)”
**DGuitar Pro: Views, Prints and Plays Guitar Pro (*.GP4,*.GP3,GTP) files!!
**TuxGuitar: A multitrack guitar tablature editor and player written in Java-SWT, Opens GP3,GP4 and GP5 files! Works!! And made “Images” by Cacaphony sound awesome, since it changed a few of the instruments from the GP4 file… (Electronic drums! haha!) And is much smoother working than the official GP for Mac (< a href="http://apoc.buildtolearn.net/wordpress/2006/08/07/guitar-pro-5-for-mac/">blech). Yay!
Hendrix “trains your chords switching skill, in guitar or piano or any other harmonic tool. Hendrix includes metronome and guitar chords dictionary. JavaScript only!”
Tuners:
Instrument Tuner in Java
Untested/Whack:
Tablature is a Java program that lets you author guitar and bass tablatures graphically, playback the songs and publish them into the Web !” (Works, but is awkward and not so useful…)
KGuitar: Untested guitar tab editor for KDE (might work in X11, but don’t have the time to test right now). Can open GP4 files!
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Guitar Pro 5 for Mac
…is a complete pile of CRAP! It crashes like nobody’s business! Maybe I’d use it (if it weren’t for all the highjacked music, that is) if it were a public Beta or something, but as paid software? No thanks. (Not yet, at least).
…And what’s with not being able to open more than one document, or have the application stay open even when no documents are open? This always annoyed me on the PC version as well, and you’d think they’d work things like that out after FIVE VERSIONS!
ugh… When you click on an instrument and then try to preview the tuning of certain strings (especially if you go to a second string without first toggling the first one off) you get instant-spinning-beachball-of-death. Blech…
Update: See this fantastic comment by Happyspaceinvader!