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There was a rumour that the music industry is taking it's war to song lyrics and guitar tab resource web sites are they? They want the owners of web sites that publish lyrics, sheet music and guitar tabs to do some jail time as well as shutting the web site down. Just who does the boss, 'the music miser' think he is anyway?
What do the MPA (Music Publishers’ Association) really hope to achieve by this kind aggressive action? I’ll tell you what the will happen. They are going to stifle the creativity that has flourished thanks to the fact that musicians and songwriters can easily share ideas and learn from each other. If they carry on with their plan to clamp down on the publication of guitar tab and lyrics they wont be doing themselves any favours. As it is, there isn’t a huge amount of decent original music out there anyway and the crap that the record companies are pumping out these days only backs that up.
Why make things worse by killing dead a resource that allows musicians to learn and hone their skills? Sheet music is notoriously expensive and this is probably why many musicians turn to the Internet to find tabs and lyrics. Maybe if the music industry on the whole weren’t so greedy in the first place they wouldn’t have this problem. Also, I would have thought that it is more important to encourage people to learn to play and develop their talents. After all they could be the next best selling record.
Some of the tabs and lyrics come from published sources, but a fair amount of it also originates from people who have listened to the song, interpreted the music and written the tablature for the benefit of other musicians who wish to learn that particular song. So are they breaking the law as well then? Is helping someone to learn a song really that bad and is it actually equivalent to stealing food from the mouth of the original artist? I don’t think so somehow. I think the MPA, Warner Chappell and the music industry on the whole have completely lost the plot on this one.
Please lets have some sanity here. Leave guitar tab and lyrics web sites alone!
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I am a guitarist and most of what I've achieved in playing lead, is from free tabs, but now, in the future when I need to learn a new number, I either sit in front of my trusting stereo and stop and start all night till I get it right or buy a book, "on your bike". I wont go down that road, as ilovemusic said, £12 for a book, just to learn 1 number, this world just seems to be getting worse.
I really pitty my grandkids in the future, it actually scares me.
the fact that you can buy a lyric book for £12.00 is a rip off. music is for everyone and it should stay that way
The MPA needs to get behind this new technology and help setup quality websites to sell this much like the RIAA and itunes People will pay for quality if it is easy to use and fairly priced.
This willbe good for song writers but may hurt print companies.
Then is also new software that can take wav and mp3 files that can separate each instrument on to a separate track then create sheet music(tabs) for each one but it takes alot of hands on work to do it right and is still abit pricey and very new. In 5 or 10 years you will be able to create sheet music right from the recorded songs with software and it willbe as good or better that most current tab books.
If I remember right song writers get payed for songs played on the radio but the recording artist do not.
While looking at tab is an eay and quick way to learn a song, it doesn't help you fine tune your ears. The more you listen to music and try to play along the more you will progress as a musician.
While the tab sites may seem useful, if you really need to look at the tab for a song, it's probably too hard for you to play anyway.
I see kids who are learning guitar and they are just being showed paterns, they aren't learning chords, positions, scales and modes. Ask them to play an E5 chord in a different position and they won't have a clue.
You don't see the great guitarists (EVH, Steve Vai, Jason Becker, Satch, Gilbert) needing to look at tabs, and how did they learn? By listening to the songs and playing along with them until they got it.
Basically, the more time and effort you put into "learning" to play "Guitar", rather than "learning" to play "Songs", the better you will become - and that is true.
I'm not picking on people who use tans day in day out, but the best way to learn is to learn yourself.
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the MPAA is not really living in the real world. F*** them, if they can convince themselves that they know how to continue to make money. everybody hates them now, and they will lose...in a battle only they wanted!
they are just greedy wierdo's....don't give them the time of day
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The next big thing maybe just doesn't exist because there's nothing left?
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