They also always have a countdown on the top of the page, suggesting their unbelievable 80% off deal is about to end and you should buy it now or it‘ll be gone forever! Quick!
It‘s not ending. It never ends. It just resets at the end of the day. The guys running this site are dickheads.
Use https://freetar.de as your front-end to Ultimate Guitar - much nicer
I will add https://www.songsterr-downloader.com to this, works for both Songsterr and UG
The funniest thing is when you are looking at the tab for a metal song that uses only ultra-distorted, 8 strings guitars with the lowest tuning, and the proposed tutorial shows a gentle finger picking on an acoustic guitar. I will not fall for your deceptions today, Ultimate Guitar!
I remember when U-G used to be good. You just downloaded the user submitted tabs and there you go. Now thing thry have are ASCII charts from 2010 and ads.
Songsterr is much better now, even if most of it’s tabs are suspiciously similar to the same user submitted guitar pro files I remember from back in the day.
Yeah, and now to reach the minuscole download button you have to scroll an entire page that is trying to sell you their pro tabs.
Songsterr is nice, but unfortunately they still have way less tabs than UG
ASCII guitar tabs go back to the 1990s (at least). I wrote a couple out there that stayed in search engines top results for those songs for multiple decades.
I’ve been relearning to play guitar recently and running into crap like this too. Finding any quality tabs is insanely difficult nowadays.
A decade+ ago I could find anything I needed on UltimateGuitar and it was great. Short of ear-training, I haven’t found anything that compares now.
This is the same company that bought up the open source Musescore and brought us Muse Hub: An insanely bloated launcher for MuseScore that was not told would be installed when installing Musescore. Muse Hub takes half as much RAM, storage, and load time as Musescore itself, despite doing 1% of what Musescore does. It also defaults to running at startup, which feels like a sign it might be spyware.
I made a UG account ten years ago to make accurate tabs and I’ve managed to scrape my way into the top 200 users on the site. I feel like no progress has been made and the site will continue its brain drain into oblivion. It’s sad because it could be such a great resource.
It used to be
I haven’t played guitar in years, but tabs of virtually any song you can think of used to be really easy to find on lots of different free sites. Is that not true anymore?
they’re still available for free, UG is sorta the main clearinghouse now and the days of googling “band - song chords” and being taken to someone’s geocities page have passed but the information is still there. There’s just a whole bunch of unnecessary garbage built into the subscription that they try to sell you.
Lovely. Sort of makes me glad I gave up playing. That and no longer having calluses on my fingertips.
Aw:( I dont think an annoying website design should shy you away from playing music. Being able to express yourself with guitar is more than worth having to deal with UGs shittiness, or calluses for that matter, even if it just means playing your own rhythm of G-C-D, or some simple chord progression.
Maybe if you pick it back up one day, try not to think of it as a chore to learn songs you like from tabs, and instead just explore the instrument and the sounds you can make with it.
It wasn’t what made me quit, I’m just glad that I don’t have to deal with that shit because I’m not still playing.
I’ve tried a lot of musical instruments in my life and while I enjoyed the guitar for a couple of years, I just didn’t feel like I was ever going to be skilled enough on it to really enjoy it, so I moved on. And I didn’t like the calluses at all.
That’s too bad, but if you didn’t enjoy it then there’s not much point in continuing.
I guess my point was you don’t really have to deal with UG or be very skilled to enjoy playing, but if you didn’t like it (calluses are kind-of a must, tbh) then it’s not worth sinking time into, imo
Oh I still use it regularly. There’s still no better collection of free tabs online that I know of. Just stay away from the subscription part.
UG is just a brand of the old days. Most of what is on there these days is either plain incorrect, or a payment scam, like this video
Right-click, block element.
Pretty sure that’s actually illegal in the USA and EU. They’re advertising a service that you pay for before finding out they do not offer it. That’s blatant false advertisement.
I will never not be upset at the bull that was pulled with OLGA. EMI, HFA, and MPA and their servants in the judiciary can all go die in a fire
Yea harry fox sucks. OLGA was the best!
Good song
They completely messed up their iOS apps. I’ve had this for tabs for eons and bought a lifetime license. I think for no ads.
Now, you keep getting more aggressive subscription pushes.
*Decades worth of content free website with tons of features, also tries to make a living using standard ad practices for the premium product.
Ftfy
Sorry… bootlicker I guess. I’ve gotten thousands of hours of joy from that site. I’m still using tabs from half a lifetime ago. The mobile app is fantastic too. I’ve supported them when I’ve had the cash. A lot cheaper than lessons would have been for 30 years.
I’ve been a subscriber for years and think it’s very much worth it. They keep improving on the site with new features regularly. I also take lessons. My musical tastes are a little out of the norm and teacher is older so most of what I want to learn is new to him. Printing up tabs ahead of time saves him the trouble of tabbing out the song while I just sit there. More time is spent learning. Yeah they’re not all 100% correct but it’s usually close enough to save time
Wow that’s incredible. As a kid “back in my day,” I had to find an old man to ear and transpose what wasn’t one of the 15 tabs in existence on the Internet yet. I probably have a hand written tab somewhere in a box.
