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Again, you can buy songs individually for about $4-$5 each at sites like Sheetmusicdirect.us and Musicnotes.com - and they actually have a lot of material that is out of print or harder to find... so the argument for not wanting to pay $30 for a book really doesn't work anymore. Then again, MXTabs.net is working on relaunching as a free, legal guitar tab site this summer. So hopefully this whole issue will be put to bed soon.

For more information on why it's not Fair Use: Why Guitar Tabs Don't Fall Under Fair Use

Legal sites with guitar tab for purchase like iTunes: Sheetmusicdirect, Freehandmusic, and Musicnotes.com. Lastly, if you didn't see the news, MXTabs.net is coming back this summer as a free, legally licensed guitar tab site.

The publishing rights to The Killers are administered by Universal Music Publishing who has an exclusive print distribution contract with Hal Leonard Corporatoin. In order to see tabs from The Killers, you probably are going to be best off trying to contact Universal Music Publishing (David Renzer would be your best bet)... but then you'll hit a dead end because Hal Leonard is trying to block any legal guitar tab initiative.

This news is so old. The site posted this letter and there were articles written about it, etc. almost a year ago. In the time since, a lot of other sites have also shut down. MXTabs.net also shut down last summer due to the same reason - it has since been purchased, and is being relaunched this summer as a legal alternative. Anyway, I was shocked to see Slashdot featuring a story that's a year old. Next thing we know there will be an announcement that the US is going to war with Iraq.

Actually, MXTabs shut themselves down and GuitarTabs.com has been threatened with legal action.

What the "music industry" doesn't realize is that Tab and Lyrics sites quite often are advertising affiliates of sites that sell sheet music, cds, etc. and generate thousands and thousands of dollars of revenue for the industry. By shutting all these sites down they'll most likely lose even more money than they think they are already losing.

MxTabs has recently shut down, if you go to mxtabs all you will get is a few paragraphs explaiming that they have shut down.

Don't forget the heavier bands, Those are the ones I feel have the most technical ability. Just to name a few:

Dillinger Escape Plan (Tabs)
Shadows Fall (Tabs)
Soilwork (tabs)

There's plenty more, but I have to leave for work now.

Don't forget the heavier bands, Those are the ones I feel have the most technical ability. Just to name a few:

Dillinger Escape Plan (Tabs)
Shadows Fall (Tabs)
Soilwork (tabs)

There's plenty more, but I have to leave for work now.

Don't forget the heavier bands, Those are the ones I feel have the most technical ability. Just to name a few:

Dillinger Escape Plan (Tabs)
Shadows Fall (Tabs)
Soilwork (tabs)

There's plenty more, but I have to leave for work now.

I'd get a conventional teacher, or just start listening to songs to try to get some of the notes right. Start with the real easy classics and then build from there. To help with that I'd use TabIT http://www.tabit.net/ to get the notes. Simply imput the .tab file which you can find here http://www.guitartabs.cc/ or http://www.mxtabs.net/ here. TabIT reads the tab and displays it while it plays it with MIDI. You can slow it down or do whatever you want with it. Only available for windows.