Online tab sites to be shut down.

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Online tab sites to be shut down.

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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4508158.stm


Mxtabs.net has already gone :?


This is just plain stupid. First off, it's not detracting from the artists' income, because 99.9% of artists don't have "official" tab books for sale. So it's not like people would be getting the music from anywhere else. When the majority of artists get their own purchasable music books, THEN they can start complaining about online tabs.

Secondly, it's just one person's interpretation of the song. And then that shared! What, do they think that people are going to download the tab and lyrics, learn to play it on their guitar and sing it and then not bother to buy the song itself?

And thirdly, they're shutting down tab sites for ALL instruments. I have never seen an official "artist" drum tab book. If they're going to remove my "illegal" means of obtaining sheet music to play on the drums, I'd at least ask for a legal means in the first place.
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aaargh!

how selfish and greedy can some folks be? if you want some Gilmour music, you will purchase the albums. effin' short sighted idiots.
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Boy, that's stupid. If I hear a song I want to learn how to play, I buy it. If I can't figure out part of it, I get the tab.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.
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if i can't figure it out on my own i ususally get my mate to figure it out for me...he can figure ANYthing out...note for note. (he's much better guitarist than me!) i don't even know how to use tabs. can't read music either. play by ear.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies


i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio


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the fold - searching for our
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gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
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I'm a cord chart guy myself, but I sometimes research tab for intricate stuff, or stuff that's hard to make out, which is the more common thing, due to some bassists using the muddiest sounding bass they can find.....I'm sure the labels are more interested in doing this that the signed acts.
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Lucimay wrote:The Somberlaine...? are you a drummer?
Oops.
Forgot I made this thread.

Why yes, yes I am. I haven't played in about a week, though. Things got moved around at Christmas and I'm too lazy to put them back :(
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