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I cannot convey how much I miss OLGA. My first taste of irritating copyright laws over art was they came for Napster, but I was still pretty young so I didn't f

I cannot convey how much I miss OLGA. My first taste of irritating copyright laws over art was they came for Napster, but I was still pretty young so I didn't feel it much. When they came for OLGA, I was skipping school to play guitar 12+ hours a day. It was around my 15th birthday. I'm pretty sure I cried. I still have a precious folder of printouts from <2006 - I don't play guitar much now, but it only just occurred to me that OLGA is probably somewhere online... :D

pen2l 6y ago
Do you miss the community element of it or what? Because tabs for pretty much anything are fairly easy to find nowadays... except even better: dynamic tabs are very much in the vogue now (tabs with multiple tracks that you can instantly play and verify if it’s good by how it sounds). You can loop certain parts, slow them down, etc for effective practicing.
- oxygenoxy 6y ago
  Can you provide any links to info on dynamic tabs?
  - rdbell 6y ago
    https://www.songsterr.com/ https://www.songsterr.com/
    - deleted 6y ago
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  - mahmoudhossam 6y ago
    Rocksmith is basically guitar tabs on steroids, and it's been getting content for almost 7 years until they finally stopped a few months ago.
    - Aengeuad 6y ago
      Should be noted that they stopped working on DLC to focus on what will probably be a sequel. https://theriffrepeater.com/rocksmith-announces-new-rocksmith-project-end-of-weekly-dlc/ https://theriffrepeater.com/rocksmith-announces-new-rocksmit...
    - bjelkeman-again 6y ago
      It has a lot of custom made content by volunteers here. http://customsforge.com/ http://customsforge.com/
  - felipe_ii 6y ago
    There were a few programs that I used in the past to write and playback my own tabs. The main program I used was TuxGuitar [1]. I felt it suited my purposes - I could work out the rhythm and positioning with this program and play files in various formats. The sound quality and features were adequate - sort of a low-fi MIDI sound where different timbres and instruments could be selected. It looks like it may not be a maintained product, but the source is available if you want to tinker with it [2]. Another program that my friends used to use is Power Tab. The original programs look to be abandoned, but it seems that an open-source implementation is actively maintained here. [3] There is a commercial product called Guitar Pro, but I felt the open-source packages were good enough. Guitar Pro also had an active community (maybe it still does), and many users would contribute their own tabs in Guitar Pro's file format (.gp3, .gp4, etc.) which I would read and edit with TuxGuitar. It used to be pretty easy to find these files available online, but I suspect copyright holders cracked down on these communities much like they did with OLGA. [1] http://tuxguitar.com.ar/ http://tuxguitar.com.ar/ [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/ [3] https://github.com/powertab/powertabeditor https://github.com/powertab/powertabeditor
  - adrianh 6y ago
    https://www.soundslice.com https://www.soundslice.com is easily the best for this — it syncs tabs with original source recordings, has practice tools built in and has a full-featured editor. All web-based. (Disclaimer: I help make it)
- viraptor 6y ago
  It's still hard to find quality tabs that go beyond chords. Even ultimate guitar with its "official" tabs is not great - they don't match the recording or are accurate with notes, but are not possible to play (things like ghost notes on 2nd fret between two barre chords on 8th).
  - ulucs 6y ago
    Ultimate guitar just copies the most popular guitar pro tab and labels it official, they might be paying the tabber, but they are not tabbing themselves.

pen2l 6y ago

Do you miss the community element of it or what? Because tabs for pretty much anything are fairly easy to find nowadays... except even better: dynamic tabs are very much in the vogue now (tabs with multiple tracks that you can instantly play and verify if it’s good by how it sounds). You can loop certain parts, slow them down, etc for effective practicing.

oxygenoxy 6y ago
Can you provide any links to info on dynamic tabs?
- rdbell 6y ago
  https://www.songsterr.com/ https://www.songsterr.com/
  - deleted 6y ago
    [deleted]
- mahmoudhossam 6y ago
  Rocksmith is basically guitar tabs on steroids, and it's been getting content for almost 7 years until they finally stopped a few months ago.
  - Aengeuad 6y ago
    Should be noted that they stopped working on DLC to focus on what will probably be a sequel. https://theriffrepeater.com/rocksmith-announces-new-rocksmith-project-end-of-weekly-dlc/ https://theriffrepeater.com/rocksmith-announces-new-rocksmit...
  - bjelkeman-again 6y ago
    It has a lot of custom made content by volunteers here. http://customsforge.com/ http://customsforge.com/
- felipe_ii 6y ago
  There were a few programs that I used in the past to write and playback my own tabs. The main program I used was TuxGuitar [1]. I felt it suited my purposes - I could work out the rhythm and positioning with this program and play files in various formats. The sound quality and features were adequate - sort of a low-fi MIDI sound where different timbres and instruments could be selected. It looks like it may not be a maintained product, but the source is available if you want to tinker with it [2]. Another program that my friends used to use is Power Tab. The original programs look to be abandoned, but it seems that an open-source implementation is actively maintained here. [3] There is a commercial product called Guitar Pro, but I felt the open-source packages were good enough. Guitar Pro also had an active community (maybe it still does), and many users would contribute their own tabs in Guitar Pro's file format (.gp3, .gp4, etc.) which I would read and edit with TuxGuitar. It used to be pretty easy to find these files available online, but I suspect copyright holders cracked down on these communities much like they did with OLGA. [1] http://tuxguitar.com.ar/ http://tuxguitar.com.ar/ [2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/ [3] https://github.com/powertab/powertabeditor https://github.com/powertab/powertabeditor
- adrianh 6y ago
  https://www.soundslice.com https://www.soundslice.com is easily the best for this — it syncs tabs with original source recordings, has practice tools built in and has a full-featured editor. All web-based. (Disclaimer: I help make it)
viraptor 6y ago
It's still hard to find quality tabs that go beyond chords. Even ultimate guitar with its "official" tabs is not great - they don't match the recording or are accurate with notes, but are not possible to play (things like ghost notes on 2nd fret between two barre chords on 8th).
- ulucs 6y ago
  Ultimate guitar just copies the most popular guitar pro tab and labels it official, they might be paying the tabber, but they are not tabbing themselves.