jw123 wrote:Colors did you add the guitar pro app on ultimate-guitar? Does it cost anything or is it a free app. Jess has hit me up with soem songs and I would jsut like to print out some tabs listent to the songs a couple of tiems and do them, I can listen to them and figure them out ussually in a matter of minutes cause they are all basic songs, but Im getting lazy.
Ive used this site but you have to wade thru a bunch of stuff to get what you want.
I use Guitar Pro. It's $50. It's worth the investment, in my mind. It's so much easier to learn a song when you can just hit "play" and hear the song while at the same time watching the tab scroll by. And the "Speed Trainer" function is really useful for difficult passages. You can highlight a passage and loop it, starting out slow and it automatically ups the tempo each time. Great way to build muscle memory on leads or difficult parts.
The Guitar Pro transcriptions on Ultimate-Guitar are almost always way better than the text tabs that are on the site. I only use the text tabs when I just want to learn the basic chords for an acoustic piece.
And the cool thing is that most of the Guitar Pro transcriptions are accurate as far as tunings go too. Like you say, lots of new music uses alternate tunings (Tremonti from Alter Bridge/Creed is notorious for using alternate tunings). What's really cool is that sometimes you can find a transcription someone has done of a song using standard, and if they've done it right it will sound almost as good as the original alternate tuning (I found a great standard tuned tab of Alter Bridge's "Watch Over You" this way - saved me from having to waste a guitar on that tuning).
Yes, you have to "wade through stuff" to get what you want, but anyone with a good ear (like you) can wade through those tabs really fast and separate the junk from the good. Plus, the star rating system will help you avoid the really bad ones to begin with.
For learning covers I consider that the best site. I couldn't live without it, really.
Powertabs.net is also really good (and PowerTab is free, unlike Guitar Pro), but the Powertabs.net site has been shut down from time to time over the years. So I go mainly with Guitar Pro (which, incidentally, is how my originals band writes songs as well - everything is in Guitar Pro which makes it really easy for all of us to learn new songs with).
