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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] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they're still available for free, UG is sorta the main clearinghouse now and the days of googling "band - song chords" and being taken to someone's geocities page have passed but the information is still there. There's just a whole bunch of unnecessary garbage built into the subscription that they try to sell you.

[–] FlyingSquid 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Lovely. Sort of makes me glad I gave up playing. That and no longer having calluses on my fingertips.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Aw:( I dont think an annoying website design should shy you away from playing music. Being able to express yourself with guitar is more than worth having to deal with UGs shittiness, or calluses for that matter, even if it just means playing your own rhythm of G-C-D, or some simple chord progression.

Maybe if you pick it back up one day, try not to think of it as a chore to learn songs you like from tabs, and instead just explore the instrument and the sounds you can make with it.

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

It wasn't what made me quit, I'm just glad that I don't have to deal with that shit because I'm not still playing.

I've tried a lot of musical instruments in my life and while I enjoyed the guitar for a couple of years, I just didn't feel like I was ever going to be skilled enough on it to really enjoy it, so I moved on. And I didn't like the calluses at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That's too bad, but if you didn't enjoy it then there's not much point in continuing.

I guess my point was you don't really have to deal with UG or be very skilled to enjoy playing, but if you didn't like it (calluses are kind-of a must, tbh) then it's not worth sinking time into, imo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Oh I still use it regularly. There's still no better collection of free tabs online that I know of. Just stay away from the subscription part.