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.
I basically taught myself using UGs tabs a long time ago. I pains me that I never learned how to properly play or understand music technically. I left off somewhere between beginner and intermediate level, and I’ve struggled to find a platform that can help me relearn without getting bored or impatient.
I really miss the thrill of learning to play guitar and would give anything to properly learn now, but time and patience is short. My guitars are collecting dust and I really miss the feeling I used to get back when I’d learn a new song.
Uh, rocksmith will probably be a thing to try. It’s a rhythm game that uses a real guitar. I’ve played it for a few years and I still don’t know how to play guitar but I can play rocksmith pretty well. It has custom dlc that you can download and a shitload of fan made charts.
You’ll need their proprietary guitar to USB plug. You can use other ones but you need a crack program and honestly it’s not worth the hassle to get it working.
Funny enough, I think I have that cable somewhere. Had a blast with that game years ago. Shame it won’t play on Xbox Series X/S but I think it works on Steam. I’ll have to check.
The drums were badass though. They’re reselling for like $300+ nowadays, which is insane.
The UG tabs were great for motivation and mixing things up, but the basics will never change. Unfortunately a lot of learning any instrument is monotony and practice. You’re going to have to work through that if you want to pick it up again. Without tabs to lean on I’ve just found it fun to noodle around with impromptu riffs and see what comes to me.
I was a bit lucky I guess because I worked myself a bit more solidly into the intermediate range and my fingers still remember all my chords. I just don’t have the same finger stamina and my chord transitions are a lot sloppier. I’ll just be happy when I can jump back into a nice fingerpicking flow again though.
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.
Good song
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.
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