Talk:Tablature

message: I am perfectly happy to discuss this proposal but I would prefer to not list my reasons until they are actually asked for—please post questions concerning this merge on my talk page under the section heading Q&A for Proposed Merges.  
Bubble anonymous (talk) 20:06, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm against this merge for reasons already stated on the individual articles talk pages. Jason Quinn (talk) 19:41, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed Merges

message: I don't know many contemporary songs that employ slides... "ATWA" is a good example but it's not what I would call a "popular" song.  If anyone knows a better example, feel free to chime in. -- Ô¿Ô
How about the opening bass line to "Otherside" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers?  Be good to get some non-guitar tab onto this page... leigh
The solo of Metallica's Ain't My Biotch is played all with slide. [fluti@abv.bg]
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Trouble by Coldplay17:34, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Slides & bass

message: Somebody less new to Wikipedia than me should convert all these tab examples to a monospaced font, and probably even add a note saying that viewing tablature online is often impossible when it's not displayed in a monospaced font.  leigh
:They're all in a monospace font on my screen. Adam Bishop 06:42, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Monospace

message: Though it would seem that not all tablature sites are created equal, the problem seems to me that they are. They either share or steal the same tabs, so one can look through six sites and find the same exact information and nothing new. Thus we may need some sort of criteria for including and exluding external links. I notice, for instance, that one of the better sites, OLGA, is not included, while several similar sites similar to each other are. Perhaps we could have a short description of the link explaining its pluses, minuses, or other differentiating details? Hyacinth 29 June 2005 07:50 (UTC)
:I've heavily trimmed this section per the guideline. - brenneman{L}  04:57, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: Someone should create something like WikiTab or along those lines that would be the same idea as Wikipedia (where everyone can edit it) but for guitar, bass, etc tabs. The only problem I see with doing something like this is that much of the tablature community consists of young, often immature musicians who may erase/incorrectly change/deface credible tabs. It may require heavy moderation. This is just a thought, maybe someone could pick up on it. --68.80.154.52 15Aug2005
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A place like this actually exists -- it's called TabWiki.  There are already 1350 members (as of this writing) and it has only been in operation since February 2005.  I think it has great potential.  There is already a community of active tabbers, but it still has a way to go just to catch up to the collection of other, more established sites.  It's located at http://www.tabwiki.com.  --RockyRaccoon 21 Oct 2005.
I just had the exact same idea of a tab wiki, and came here to see if it existed. i will check out tabwiki immediately - thanks rocky! as for that link, i've put it into the article, cos i'm sure there must be others interested. [halio]
:According to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on talk pages, the content of talk pages should be related to the maintenance of the article, rather than general discussion of the topic; please continue this discussion elsewhere beyond this page. --Joseph Yanchar (talk) 15:29, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tablature Wiki 

message: It seems like this article is trying to be a compromise between modern tabs (generally seen as an easy way out of sheet music) and the classical tablature used before the standardization of sheet music.  As an avid garage rocker, the impression I get is that nearly all tablature used today is ASCII tab; even when it's written by hand it follows the same formatting rules.  I propose that the classical portion of the article should be split off into a new Classical Tablature article.  The remainder should be merged with ASCII tab, keeping the Tablature name. Nialsh 14:23, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classical vs Contemporary 

message: The last section of this article detailing the legal issues that online tabulatures are raising are either very badly written or have been the subject of various editing wars between those who are pro-legalization and anti-legalization.  Either way, it is unacceptable in its current form and should be re-written with no biases and perhaps the controversy should have a separate section of its own for those keen on this issue to butt heads.
:I did a re-write. It was hard to fix some of the non-NPOV stuff without outright deleting it. As an intermediate, I placed requests for citations. If these aren't answered soon, the statements should be deleted. - Sancho McCann 13:04, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I second the deletion of the last "hypothesis" section if citations are not made soon. It seems to provoke a highly inflamatory context and is neither neutral nor informative. I also second the legal issues having its own page. It may draw more attention, thus drawing more experts. - Blueshango 15:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

text: So far as my understanding of the situation (and I'm an avid fan of both guitar tabs and copyright law), there have only been threats by the MPA, NMPA, EMI, and other companies and organizations. No free Internet tablature site has ever gone to court, nor has any case been brought up by United States Legislature or Supreme court. The tactic of companies and organizations is to threaten sites and hope they comply. Tablature websites don't generate enough revenue to actually wage a legal battle, so they often go shut down completely, stay open in disobeyance, start similar websites with the same content, or locate servers in countries/jurisdictions where the copyright laws do not apply. The tale of the On-Line Guitar Archive reflects this. OLGA may not have been the first tablature website, but it was the biggest. Then EMI threatened a lawsuit, and it shut down. What happened afterward was the emergence of so-called "renegade" OLGA sites around the world (I remember one in Poland and another in South Africa that popped up). OLGA later revived itself on the basis of fair use doctrine; specifically, a bypass of copyright infringement due to the site offereing an educational service and distrubuting educational products. Nothing has ever gone to court, and no legal decisions have been made. Only threats by major publishing organizations. I continue to follow this day-by-day, as I find it really interesting. Again, there is no direct legislation on free Internet tablature--they've been too busy fighting over illegal music and movie pirating. All that exists is lots of arguments, speculation, and--most definitely--opinions. - Blueshango 21:14, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree. Tabs must be copied from copyrighted PRINTED material in order to be illegal, meaning that they have to have been copied directly from already-published tab books put out by the copyright holders of the music. Any tab created by an individual without direct plagiarism from a published source cannot be illegal, for the same reasons that selling audio rips of Simpsons DVDs would be illegal but teaching people how to do a Bart Simpson impression would not be.67.177.49.13 (talk) 22:58, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Hi, that would be nice if someone could explain what make a Guitare Tablature legal and what make it not. What is the difference between the two? It's not very clear. What process or steps should be done to make legal Guitare Tablature on line in the safest way of doing it? Thanks! 67.68.174.77 (talk) 02:45, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legality Debate 

message: I added a part from Happy Birthday to give readers who may not be familiar with chords an example they can relate to easier. I think it's a good idea, correct me if I'm wrong.--LifeEnemy 14:21, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's okay for now, but if free Internet tablature of copyrighted material is deemed illegal in the future, it may need removed. The song is copyrighted (see Happy Birthday To You). -- Blueshango 01:08, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Happy Birthday tab

message: Following the guidelines at WP:EL and WP:SPAM, I've replaced the large external link section with a dmoz ODP link in this edit.  Good links that pass WP:EL should be added back individually if a consensus supports their inclusion. -SpuriousQ (talk) 12:29, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cleaned out (a dozen links) again, and added a  template. Femto 12:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I'd like to propoes that an external link to printable blank TAB paper be added to this page, as I believe it would be a useful resource for readers:
http://www.guitaristhelp.net/Manuscript_TAB.gif
I, therefore request that the suitability of this link is assessed by Wikipedia editors. Guitaristhelp 09:31, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link proposal 

message: I would like to put my page http://www.en.tabulaturen.eu/ to "External links" Text: "Collection of polyphone tabulatures". As far as i know there existed no polyphone tabulatures in the past. Please think about my wish and excuse my bad English :-) Stefan1951Stefan1951  —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 11:37, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: polyphone guitar tabulature

message: *This is a very good site to learn how to read guitar tabs, and it has a page with easy tabs for practicing: http://tabizer.com/en/page/how-to-read-tabs  —Preceding unsigned comment added by JoePalfalviJr (talk • contribs) 08:59, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: How to Read Guitar Tabs

message: I fixed the "Web site" issue (I consider it an issue at least), since it made the reading of the article a bit complicated.
The article said "Web site" in every place it should have said "website". Also, since it is not a name, it should not be capitalized, unless it's the first word of the sentence and any other similar rules of grammar.
Elchafa (talk) 17:37, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Website" is one word, and starts with a small "w" 

message: That article has something on tablature at Capo#Use. Methinks the reverse should also be. I am trying to find out how to write tab notation when a capo is used. --Jerome Potts (talk) 01:16, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nothing on the [[capo]] ? 

message: Aren't guitar chord diagrams a form of tablature warranting at least a mention here?  JMT32 (talk) 02:48, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guitar chord diagrams?