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Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Oh hallelujah, I've got a lifetime sub due to buying their app back in the day and was grandfathered in, so I can escape some of the marketing, but their crazy, pants-on-head UI makes guitar harder a lot of the time.

I did the same! I'm so happy I did!

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Haven't heard the term, and I'm not from a western country Understood. Indian music uses Sa-Re-Ga-Ma-Pa-Dha-Ni, but it means the same thing. The key to understanding that system is that Mi-Fa and Ti-Do (Ga-Ma, Ni-Sa) are half-step intervals (consecutive frets on the guitar), every other interval is whole step (skip a fret). Historical Western solmization doesn't even use Ti (the indian Ni), so everything always rev…

Ahhhh... This brings back sweet memories of a music theory/practical harp, grad student that I used to date. She was always able to instantly play any pop songs I requested as harp arrangements; watching someone truly play an instrument as if from feeling is magical. But I really feel like guitar playing is a different beast all together. There is no other instrument with the amount of "players" that the guitar has,…

But why is it that musical awareness of what you're actually playing on the instrument has to be the "not so fun" part, compared to just mechanically following some existing tab? I would dispute that point. I would also dispute the notion that "the guitar is too unlike" other instrument families and standard learning methods cannot possibly be applied to it.

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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I've gone to ultimate-guitar since the early 2000s. Some of my tabs are still on there. Visiting it today is a god-damn tragedy. What a mess of a site. I'll definitely be trying this.

Yes, it's very sad to see work you provided for free to a community used to exploit these people.

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Two things:

1. This is really excellent. I looked up some tab that I had added to the site, and it does a great job presenting it. Most importantly, it does it in a very printable format.

2. If you a classical guitarist, or interested in classical guitar, you should check out https://www.classtab.org/ which is a gem of the internet.

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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Ooh, this is a godsend. UG is so full of dark patterns and nags it's almost unusable. It's a travesty and whoever runs such scam on community provided content should do some serious soul searching. Transposing chords doesn't seem to be implemented (or should the plus/minus buttons do that)?

Right? It was such a great resource for such a long time and then they just butchered it.

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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I've gone to ultimate-guitar since the early 2000s. Some of my tabs are still on there. Visiting it today is a god-damn tragedy. What a mess of a site. I'll definitely be trying this.

Same. I made many online friends on the forum and it used to be my e-hangout in the early to mid 00s. I fondly remember the IRC channel we used to hang out in. I think I have a tab or two published on the site as well. Every time I pop back in for a visit these past few years it always pushes me back away.

Re: Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com

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I've gone to ultimate-guitar since the early 2000s. Some of my tabs are still on there. Visiting it today is a god-damn tragedy. What a mess of a site. I'll definitely be trying this.

The only things from that era that didn’t get outright worse stayed the same (Craigslist).

What was beautiful about the internet then was there were so many corners were monetization either wasn’t easy or wasn’t chased so things could just exist.

Not so anymore!

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