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Ultimate Guitar now restricting access to some tabs

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I've been using Ultimate-Guitar.com for many years for grabbing tabs when I fancy seeing how some people try to play the songs I'm interested in having a look at...

I was always intrigued by how they were simply ripping the tabs that were freely posted in the old days to usenet, and then even more suprised when they started selling an iPhone (I guess android as well) app to access their own tabs.

Anyway noticed this afternoon when I went to browse some tab for Clapton's version of Cocaine that they are now blocking some tabs in NZ, and I'm guessing other countries because I couldn't get at the tab at all for this song (any version by Clapton) (*1).

So heads up if you use this site.

Also general query, what decent tab(*2) sites are people using these days?

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Luckily this isn't a massive problem for me as I know I have a magazine with a decent tab and backing track for this specific song, it's just i was sat on the sofa with my guitar and iPad and thought I'd have a gander as all I could remember was the intro riff.

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(Obviously taken as read that Decent Tab is an oxymoron).

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Apparently blocked at request of the rights owner, so I assume thats not just their way of getting more people to pay for Tab subscriptions via thier iPad app otherwise there'd be a link for where to pay to view it right?

Boo to that, has been my go-to site for tab for years.

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check out www.guitarforge.com, it has pdf sheet music / tabs which are free to down load

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jimi wrote:Apparently blocked at request of the rights owner, so I assume thats not just their way of getting more people to pay for Tab subscriptions via thier iPad app otherwise there'd be a link for where to pay to view it right?

Boo to that, has been my go-to site for tab for years.
Hmm that's a bit of a pain in the arse, I use it when I'm too lazy to work something out.

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If you buy *cough cough* a copy of Guitar Pro 6 and download a tab pack with 40000+ songs (only around 2gb) you'll never need Ultimate-Guitar again.
And of course you can actually listen to the songs and slow your parts down.

I haven't even seen tab in my last 2 years at jazz school and I've just joined a new metal band, it's a sight for sore-eyes I tell you :D
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spasm6 wrote:If you buy *cough cough* a copy of Guitar Pro 6 and download a tab pack with 40000+ songs (only around 2gb) you'll never need Ultimate-Guitar again.
And of course you can actually listen to the songs and slow your parts down.

I haven't even seen tab in my last 2 years at jazz school and I've just joined a new metal band, it's a sight for sore-eyes I tell you :D
Yeah guitar pro is a good call or it's slightly dorky cousin - Powertab (which I've found to be quite handy).

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spasm6 wrote:If you buy *cough cough* a copy of Guitar Pro 6 and download a tab pack with 40000+ songs (only around 2gb) you'll never need Ultimate-Guitar again.
I have bought GP6, no coughing required. Ofcourse any copyright you were infringing viewing tabs on Ultimate Guitar you have also infringed with your 40000 song tab pack.

Very cool software... the slow down and loop feature is very handy for getting complicated sections of songs right. Better than Rocksmith anyway.

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jimi wrote:
spasm6 wrote:If you buy *cough cough* a copy of Guitar Pro 6 and download a tab pack with 40000+ songs (only around 2gb) you'll never need Ultimate-Guitar again.
I have bought GP6, no coughing required. Ofcourse any copyright you were infringing viewing tabs on Ultimate Guitar you have also infringed with your 40000 song tab pack.

Very cool software... the slow down and loop feature is very handy for getting complicated sections of songs right. Better than Rocksmith anyway.
I got the impression the OP was more concerned with Ultimate-guitars blocking of songs rather than any copyright issues.
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spasm6 wrote: I got the impression the OP was more concerned with Ultimate-guitars blocking of songs rather than any copyright issues.
For sure, was more indicating that the reason tab is being blocked will eventually extend to making it hard to find GP6 files as well. Not a drama if you've managed to find a 40000 song package thats reasonably complete, and you only want to learn songs that were tabbed a few years ago.

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just curious as to how copyright can effect tabs? :think: as most tabs arent exactly correct, and alot of bands dont release tab books so where is the copyright infringement?
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how weird I read this thread and then the very next thing I saw was an ad at the top of the trade me site for this "artist approved" site

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yeah haven't been able to get any Led Zep tabs whole time I've been in Aus
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Clapton tabs have been blocked for a while now (6-9 months). The only artist I have come across on Ultimate Guitar so far.
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Hades wrote:Clapton tabs have been blocked for a while now (6-9 months). The only artist I have come across on Ultimate Guitar so far.
he's sucked since he started using strats anyway hasn't he :lol: :lol: :crazy: :crazy: :yawn: :think: :mrgreen:


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