MXtabs, Good or Bad?

[mx6driven]

Well lastnight i wanted to learn a song on the guitar, I havent learned notes or anyting but Iv always liked looking at Tabs. Well I went onto www.mxtabs.net and it goes to another site. was wondering what happened so I went on wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mxtabs

[QUOTE] was a music tablature website from 1999 to 2006, offering free guitar, bass, and drum tablature, in addition to music reviews and instrument lessons. The site shut down in June, 2006 in response to claims made by the MPA about the supposed illegality of music tabs. All that remains of the former site is the forum.[QUOTE]

How is tabs ilegal? wouldnt learning by ear of a song be ilegal? anyways opinions and anyone know where I can find some tabs? mxtabs had sooo many

[I Like Me]

This is the one I always use: http://www.911tabs.com/

[wrathchild]

We know. It sucks.

azchords (http://www.azchords.com/) isn't bad.

[FsB_BeN]

www.ultimate-guitar.com

owns all those sites.

[Avo]

Because people are greedy, if their books are not selling, then attack the main source. They also attacked www.mysongbook.com
Providing some tabs - even made by ear - of copyrighted music is illegal. In order to respect the law, downloads have been limited to the [Composition] and [Competition] files. We are going to make our best to find a solution to offer music content without infringing copyrights.

[mx6driven]

i never knew that doing this would be ilegal, never would have crossed my head. its really stupid. Its just people hearing, and writing it down so other will be able to play to their favorite songs and impress friends and wutnot. thats some bulljive

[hardXcorey]

How is it more illegal to post tabs than lyrics?

[CheeseMonkeys]

Maybe they were exact print outs from the tab book. Meh i don't know.

http://www.guitaretab.com/

[Disgustipated]

www.ultimate-guitar.com

owns all those sites.

Agreed. Use ultimate-guitar. It has lots of tabs in text, but it also has lots of guitar pro and power tab files.

[Avo]

www.guitartabs.cc
www.guitarnotes.com

More tab page's

[Mount_Happy]

How is it more illegal to post tabs than lyrics?
Very good point, not every single lyric site has direct permission from the artist to rewrite the lyrics for their website, so why the fuck isnt that shit getting targetted but tabs are?

Its a real shame that mxtabs went down, it was one of my 3 main tab sites.

www.ultimate-guitar.com

owns all those sites.
yep, UG is the one i use mainly now, another decent one is www.fretplay.com

[SausMcMuff]

www.ultimate-guitar.com

owns all those sites.


yessssssa that is correct, i've never had a problem with ultimate guitar, i used to use mxtabs and i personally found a lot of their tabs were way off

[Rev'd_Flasher]

Also soon to be made illegal in a country/state near you:
humming your favourite tune (violates copyright if done within earshot of someone that hasn't paid to hear it)
singing along with your favourite record (obviously violates copyright - who gave you permission to repeat the lyrics verbatim?)
playing someone elses music yourself on your own instrument (violates copyright in so many ways I can't list them all).

This is a joke, but don't laugh because the way things are going now, it could happen.

[Frostdaddy]

I use www.bassmasta.net for bass tabs, but I think they have a guitar section too.

[MattyB]

damn i miss that site.

[-Ryan-]

Yeah, I liked MXtabs, but now I just use ultimate-guitar.. I think they were more worried about people getting the tabs, learning the songs, playing them with a band, and making money from it. All without permission from the band/company they are signed to. I still think it's all BS, but there's still plenty of tab sites around..Why just this one?