fanTABstic! (tabcrawler.com)

Member Name: aebone

Product:	tabcrawler.com
Date:	01/05/01 (276 review reads)
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Advantages: Loads of music at your fingertips!

Disadvantages: Not all the music is accurate

Tabcrawler.com is the site for anyone who owns a guitar and wants music at their fingertips! It contains absolutely thousands of guitar, bass and drum tabulatures (great for those who can’t read music!).

Maintained and updated frequently, this is a very good site….and it contains more than just tabulature.

But, lets start with those tabs. If any of you can remember Olga (On-line Guitar Archive), then this has most of those songs, and many others on it. The home page offers you a search option for guitar, bass and drums, but I often just go through the a-z of artists in order to find what I want. For more recent songs, there is a page of New Tabs, which is updated weekly.

This site is good, because it doesn’t infringe copyright. The tabs offered are just peoples interpretations of songs, sometimes they are true to the recording, and sometimes they are wrong! Generally though I have found tabs here to at least give me a good footing with each song. Think of any artist, even obscure ones, and you will probably find some songs by them on this site!

As well as the tabs, you can get guitar lessons, and if you need to find a chord, you can do a search, which will show you a number of ways to play them. You can also listen to how they should sound if you have a sound card in your computer. There are scale generators, which can show you how to do scales in a similar way. There is also a tones and techniques section….all very handy for both beginners and the more experienced guitarist!

There are forums galore, you can discuss tabs, suggest new ones, and analyse those already on the site. You can also talk to other people about their experiences, and ask advice on technical matters. Marvellous.

As with all sites you have to judge which information is good and which isn’t, but generally I have found it to be a wealth of useful knowledge, and the people are genuine.

The site itsel
f is easy to navigate and fast to load, which is an advantage. I recommend it to everyone who uses tab, even those who don’t. It is superior to other tabulature sites I have found on the internet, and doesn’t have nearly as many annoying adverts. A great site!!!

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