Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Learn Chords the Legal Way

Wired News reports that guitar tabs site MXTabs.net is working with song publishers to share ad revenue and offer legal tablatures for aspiring guitarists:
Several websites have sprung up to help musicians share these notations, but as soon as they get encyclopedic enough to be really useful, they tend to get closed down. One of them -- MXTabs.com -- is being resurrected by MusicNotes as a legal service that will offer a reduced number of tablatures along with ads whose revenues will be shared with music publishers.
I guess the old site was .com, and the new one is .net. MXTabs.com is just a page of links.
Here's a related article about a site that was shut down.
I'd be flattered if someone wanted to learn how to play a song I wrote. It's not like anyone's getting rich playing in a cover band. Am I way off base? Would you insist on getting paid by someone who wanted to learn your songs on their own?

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