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January 10, 2004

I Woke Up And Found... Tab!

I'm wanting to learn some of the songs from Porcupine Tree's In Absentia, so I Google for "sound of muzak" tab. The first link takes me to a site called "Power Tab Archive" and offers me tablature for the song in a binary format with the extension "PTB". Hmm. Strolling around the site a little more, I find a link to Power Tab .net, which has software for PTB files called Power Tab Editor. It installs easily and looks really cool.

Keep in mind that it's been a while since I looked for tab on the Internet. All the tab I've ever grabbed (or created) has been ASCII text files. While that was OK, it was a bit lacking.

So back to the Power Tab Editor. The display of the score in the PTB file looks detail-for-detail like the tab in the musician magazines. And when printed, it's even better. Good stuff! There appears to be a healthy community of people trading tab this way. I'll be glad to join it!

Posted by Alex Harden on January 10, 2004 1:52 PM |

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I didn't know you played? I played over New Year's. First time in about 3 years! I was rather rusty at first, but I was surprise how quickly it started to come back. Although, without callouses, my fingers were burning by the end of it.

I got to play the drums some too, haven't done that since I roomed with my drummer. Tab was a blessing to me because I have a very remedial ability to read music. Rock on, dude! Hey, send my a .wav file or something!

Posted by: shane | January 11, 2004 12:26 PM

Yep, I play. I concentrate on bass but I like to play acoustic guitar as well. I'm inspired to play more acoustic every time I go to an open mike night. I want to learn to play more full songs with just guitar and voice. Some of the PT stuff seems like it would work.

Posted by: aharden | January 11, 2004 1:21 PM

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