This is smurfing ridiculous. It's like the music industry is waging a war against musicians. They can place bans all they want, but it is up to us, the musicians, to make one thing very clear: We will not comply.
This is smurfing ridiculous. It's like the music industry is waging a war against musicians. They can place bans all they want, but it is up to us, the musicians, to make one thing very clear: We will not comply.
Thats how I know most songs.
By most Im talking about 80% of what I know is from tabs.
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Yeah. What about the guitar n00bs like us. Well, like me, that haven't taken lessons yet so at the moment need to learn by ourselves??Originally Posted by Venom
Thats how I know most songs.
By most Im talking about 80% of what I know is from tabs.
I ALWAYS learn songs from the internet...and....?
This is absolutely sodding ridiculous.
"The most important and recognize player in the history of the country."
Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I were as great as Paulo Wanchope.
You can play by ear as well?
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No you'll get arrested..
It's worth saying that it's not illegal to look up tabs and lyrics; it's simply illegal to offer them. So there's no issue with us trying to find them. The MPA will get tired of this after awhile and give up.
They better! >=(
Like the war on MP3s?
SEXY McAWESOME TO YOU, MISTER
The whole mp3 thing really does take money from the artists, though.
I don't see why people care so much, who cares?
Less people seem to buy sheet music because of tab sites.
Obviously the sheet music people aren't too happy about that (neither are the musicians that get a certain amount of money from the sales) so they're trying to take them down.
*shrug* Oh well. There'll still be ways around it so don't worry about it too much
You obviously aren't a musician.I don't see why people care so much, who cares?
I do not understand how this is illegal, though. Most tabbers actually use thier ears to tab out a song. They don't copy them straight from tablature books. They listen, and copy what they hear. I fail to see how there could be any legal issues whatsoever. If I learned a song, by ear, from a music CD and then taught it to a friend, would that also be illegal? Because it's the exact same smurfing thing.
Yeah, like the one hit wonders. Most musicians however make their money from concert revenue. In fact, I know for absolute certain that the illegal distribution of MP3's has put money in the pockets of underground musicians. I would assume that almost all non mainstream musicians profit from p2p. I know that I would have never bought albums from , or attend the shows of, the artists that I listen to had I not had the ability to download thier music. The only people getting screwed are mainstram artists and major record labels, and I really couldn't care less about either of them.The whole mp3 thing really does take money from the artists, though.
About the only good news in all of this is that drum tabs shouldn't be an issue, unless they suddenly change copyright laws so you can copyright a drumbeat, which will never happen (if it did, you could pretty much kiss drummers goodbye since bands would have to pay royalties for the simplest of grooves and fills, which show up even in the most complex music). Honestly, I doubt this will get very far, since most tabs I've seen aren't entirely accurate. It's more of a "this is how I play it" sort of thing. If tab sites do go down, record companies will damage themselves more than anything. Not only will the single handedly tick off a good chunk of the musicians out there, they'll be discouraging younger musicians from sticking with the instrument and learning songs by bands they like.
Not everyone can just learn by ear. Even with over six years behind a drumkit, bands like Tool, Rush, and Dream Theater still provide some stuff that I just can't figure out, so I go to tabs. If actual books of sheet music were available for these and other bands I like, I'd gladly buy them because I know they're going to be accurate, and I find reading sheet music easier than reading tabs. The fact is, there often isn't an official version even with some more popular bands, so what is someone supposed to do?
My dad's talked about how when he was younger they'd turn down the speed on their record players to learn songs, but it's a little tough to do that these days, so show me a musician who's picked up their instrument in the last decade or more who hasn't used tabs.
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