No More Guitar Tabs On The Web?

I am so sick of this. I've been tooling around on the internet since 1995 and I hear this again and again. The publishing companies do a sweep of all the tab and chords sites like every 4 years. Claiming copyright infringement. What a load of shit. Y'know why the Hal Leornard company doesn't make any money? Cause the Hal Leonard product is A) Not written for the audience they think they are serving and B)Incorrect. I stopped buying any version of a monthly guitar magazine (guitar world, g-hero, electric-guitar, guitar-buttplug monthly) when I was 15. Why? Because, I knew how to read music and tab and I'd learn what the magazine would say a song part went, and I'd play it - and it'd sound wrong. Then I'd learn from a friend or try and figure out my self, and it would sound correct. This happened over and over and over, and then i realized: The transcriptionists at those magazines were crap. They basically were correct when they knew what KEY a song was in, and if someone used an alternate turning but they were wrong about WHICH tuning about 50% of the time.

Fast forward to the internet age (1995) and there's all these tab sites. and guess what? The user generated content on tab sites was about 95% correct. Cause it was written by a bunch of guitarists, who loved playing guitar, who loved learning songs from the source and then writing out the correct way to play it. Cause that's what they wanted, and that was what WE wanted too.

So let me get this straight. The music industry wants us to 1) pay for a artifact (cd or download) 2) pay to hear it on the radio 3) Pay to see the song live 4) pay for us to buy a transcription that is incorrect and written for piano. and 4) look the other way when the folks making the damn music in the first place get paid MAYBE .4% of the gross, if they get paid at ALL (see Jim Croce, the Cold Crush Crew, and James Jamerson of the Funk Brothers as stellar examples of artists being compensated fairly.)

Eat it. Just Eat it. You bunch of heartless greedy snakes. I'll be damned if I ever want to look at you leeches. Much less do any kind of business with you.

The J-Walk Blog: No More Guitar Tabs On The Web?