And a bonus rant
http://www.411mania.com/music/news/article.php?news_id=9431
Read this Article.
Ok. What the fuck?
MP3's were understandable, as much fun as they were we all knew they were illegal. Tabs are a person's interpretation of how to play a song. It's hearing your favorite song on a CD you purchased (or downloaded for all I give a shit) figuring out how to play it on guitar/bass/piano/drums/cowbell and putting it on a website for others to learn how to play it as well. Does it sound like the CD version? Hell no, unless you have all the fun equipment and studio to recreate the exact sounds heard. It's not sheet music, it's a number based system that's easier to read. It doesn't take food off a musician's table. James Hetfield itsn't out any cash because I learned the intro to Enter Sandman from a website. The industry just wants justification for selling tab books for more than the cost of the album. As the article points out there is a lot of music you can't even buy in tab book form. The internet is the only way. Now some industry site will charge a buck a tab for shitty interpretations of a song. I've found better tabs done by some 16 year old kid than I have in the printed book versions. The music industry's greed knows no limits. Next they'll be suing music teachers for teaching a kid how to play Blitzkreig Bop because they didn't teach it from the official published version. Christ it's mostly power chords of A, D, and E. And I learned that online. It's how I taught myself guitar. I've bought a couple books here and there, but most of my learning came from sites like mxtabs.net which is now a CD review site because the web admins were afraid of litigation. Next they'll make reviews illegal because bad ones take away from sales. This shit has got to stop. The music industry needs to end all these lawsuits. It's not taking photocopies from published tab books and reprinting them online. It's one person's interpretation. What's next?