MetalTabs

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Discuss and share music transcriptions from within the metal genre. Get help with tricky riffs or learn how to use popular transcription software, such as Guitar Pro and MuseScore. Post audio and videos of your progress on whatever instrument you play.

All sub-genres and instruments are welcome!

Rules:

  1. If you're posting someone else's work, please credit them.
  2. Any form of metal is welcome here.
  3. Try to limit tab requests to one at a time. Once it's been fulfilled, then you can post your next request.
  4. Site-wide rules apply. Be cool.

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Instrument stems are the individual audio files that comprise a complete recording. So you might have separate audio files for the guitars, the bass, the drums, and so on. Using stems to transcribe or practice music makes life so much easier.

A fantastic resource for freely-downloadable stems can be found here:

https://linktr.ee/burntstems

From there, you can find many other resources, channels and outposts for stems, so it's a great starting point. Many metal bands have song stems available, in particular Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Disturbed, and many others!

If you need help fetching your desired stems, feel free to ask for guidance.

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Notepad++ is a plain text editor, primarily for programmers/coders, but if you work with ASCII tablature, it's a must-have.

It allows you to select/cut/copy/paste vertical chunks of text. This means you can add, move or delete bars of tab from the stave. It also lets you drag a vertical line from which you can then type on all selected lines simultaneously, allowing you to draw up bars of tab very quickly, like so:

I've yet to find another plain text editor with this functionality, but if you know of any others, please share!

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