Outlawing Guitar Tabs?

[zalezarem]

Guitar Tabs Made Illegal

*Could* be a headline in the near-future, thanks to the Sheet Music Industry which claims that the existence of free online tabulature for music was damaging to sales. Many of your favorite tabbing sites are now closing down, shrinking before the awesome maw of the Sheet Music Industry. I don't know what's left for the

Comments

[flounderphil]

I've already heard about this, and I fully understand how much bullshit it is. I wanted to learn to play a lot of Beatles songs on the Piano (just the chords) and it's getting hard to find even the CHORDLISTINGS for songs. How much bullshit is that, the sheet music business should realize that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and they should also realize that their money should be made selling non-rock stuff. Why would the sheet music industry even be attempting to sell books of Red Hot Chili Peppers or Radiohead songs when you could just listen to them over and over and teach yourself to play them anyways (which is all that the people who write tabs do!).

ugh bullshit.

[shadyassmofo]

It WOULD actually help keep the sheet music business alive...which you may not rely on...but other people who have to read the music (me) do. and flounderphil, I'm glad you're so self involved that you think there are only "rock" people like you who never look at sheet music to learn song but, many musicians actually READ musical notation and learn songs that way. not to mention if you want to cover a song without any chord fuck ups (guitar tabs are full of those) you'de have to go witht a legit copy of the music. I personally hate tabs, it sounds better when guitarists learn songs from sheet music and it improves their musicianship. sorry bro, I agree with the industry on this one. at least from the musicianship side, I think it's beneficial. Tabs are a crutch.