Ultimate Guitar is hands down the best free guitar and bass tablature site on the web. I’ve been a heavy user for years, and after trying many other tablature sites such as guitartabs.com, guitartabs.net, mxtabs.net and countrytabs.com, nothing compares to ultimate-guitar.com.
Ultimate Guitar is a huge archive of user created tablature or “tabs”. A tab is a form of guitar music written in the easiest form to understand for everyone. Its different from sheet music in that you don’t need to know how to read music to understand it. So where sheet music uses the grand staff and music notes, tablature looks like this…
the only downside to it is that you cannot tell what the tempo for the song is or how long to hold different notes, but for playing guitar, i find this favorable because guitar is much more of a free instrument in that everyone really has their own style.
Ultimate guitar is free for any user, and you don’t have to create a user name to view tabs which is great for casual browsers. If you create an account, that’s when the social media aspect of the site is activated. you can talk with other users, comment on news, submit tabs and articles, and most importantly in my eyes, comment on tabs.
Because the site is user driven, commenting on and rating tabs is a huge part of the success of ultimate guitar. all tabs are rated on a 5 star scale. when you browse for a tab, you can see all the tabs that have been written for a song and their rating. This is awesome when looking for a song you want because you don’t have to look through so many songs to find a good one. other users have already done it for you.
Ultimate Guitar is a great site for communicating with other musicians as well as finding good free music that is user created.
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