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UltimateGuitar shows a fake tutorial video with the title of the song you're trying to learn. Clicking it just brings you to the sign-up page for their premium subscription. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by testeronious to c/assholedesign

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] clearedtoland 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SkyezOpen 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] clearedtoland 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SkyezOpen 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Rocksmith doesn't do drums afaik, you might be thinking of rock band?

[–] clearedtoland 4 points 7 months ago

Yup. Got them mixed up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

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.