I thought we’d spend a few minutes this morning highlighting some of the exciting things happening within the MXTabs.net Forum. If you’ve never visited before, be sure to stop in – we’re a very friendly community, and our members represent a diverse enough sampling of musical taste and experience that I’m betting everybody reading this blog could find a topic on the MXTabs.net Forum to participate in. And if you do decide to drop by and you have any questions or comments,... [Continue Reading]
Archive for October, 2008
Off-Stage: Your Band’s Image. Timely or Timeless?
That picture to the left is of The Gothsicles lead singer, Brian. Why am I posting pictures I took of a singer from a band? Well, today my bandmates, we’re going to talk about your band’s image. That’s right — what you look like. What you wear. Why it’s necessary. In one picture, image can clue your new fans into what your music’s all about and make your band more recognizable. To understand image, though, we gotta play a little memory recall. Aerosmith. KISS.... [Continue Reading]
MXTabs.net and Notting Hill Music Group Sign Agreement
Just over two weeks ago we hinted at the possibility of signing several new publishers within the coming weeks. Well, as promised, today MXTabs.net is proud to announce a new partnership with the Notting Hill Music Group allowing us to display guitar, bass guitar, and drum tabs by their exciting roster of artists. As the Notting Hill website boasts: The Notting Hill Music catalogue includes almost 300 U.K. Top 40 hit singles, including 18 number ones. Our songs are featured on hundreds of hit albums... [Continue Reading]
Halloween Tabs and Free Halloween Song Playlist
With October 31st being just one week away, I figured it was high time to bust out a Halloween blog post featuring some of the great, horror-inspired tabs we have available on MXTabs.net. I tried not to include too many ridiculously cliche songs (Monster Mash comes to mind), but instead tried to highlight as broad a range of styles as possible. They all have one thing in common, however: something about each one makes me think of pitch black nights, fallen leaves, evil spirits, and all those other... [Continue Reading]
Off-Stage: How does Your Band Make Decisions?
Okay, so yeah…decision-making. Sure, it’s one of those “responsible” words that isn’t cool and doesn’t fit your mode of being. Well, guess what? If you don’t know how your band makes decisions then you’re probably going to regret some of the choices you do make further on down life’s road. Take Biff and his band Moonsliver, for example. (Yeah, I just made that up, by the way.) Biff is the lead singer for his rock band; together with his fellow... [Continue Reading]
Follow MXTabs.net Online
In addition to our shiny, new blog, MXTabs.net has also been working hard to improve our other social media outlets. Maybe you’re thinking, “Hmm… that’s cool. But what’s the big deal?” Well, we believe there is no better way to build the best free tab site on the internet than to reach out to you, dear readers, in as many ways as possible, so that together we can build a MXTabs.net that we can all love and be proud of. With that in mind, today I’d like... [Continue Reading]
Guitar Guru Launches Mac Version with Buy 1 Get 1 Sale
Starting this week, Musicnotes.com has begun to offer Guitar Guru Sessions, their hands-on interactive guitar lessons, for the Mac in addition to PC customers. In addition, the site is offering an exclusive one-week only coupon to buy one Guitar Guru Session, get one free. Musicnotes.com has over 1,500 songs to choose from. What do you want to rock out to and learn to play? read more | digg story Read More →
A Brief Review of Disturbed’s New Album
It seems that heavy metal band Disturbed has been polarizing the metal community ever since their first record was released back in 2000. For some, they are the prime example of a band that favors safe, commercially viable music over experimentation and the so-called “hardcore” aesthetic. Others, however, will tell you that Disturbed’s mixture of melody, metal, and slick soloing is the perfect outlet for those (myself included) who only occasionally wet their feet in the proverbial... [Continue Reading]
Off-Stage: Before Your Band can Make it Big, Plan for Success
Hello bandmates, groupies and idols! Every Wednesday I’m going to take you off-stage and talk about the business side of music, promotions, and other topics relevant to getting your music heard and your band noticed. Before I do, I need to bring up something that used to make me cringe in fear, because it goes against every creative and musical cell in my body — planning for success. I used to be one of “those” creative individuals that never used big words like “product... [Continue Reading]
Downtown Music Publishing Agrees to Sign with MXTabs.net
Fresh on the heels of our deal with Songs Music Publishing, MXTabs.net is excited to announce yet another publisher signing, this one with Downtown Music Publishing, a recipient of a 2008 ASCAP Pop Award. They represent a diverse range of titles recorded by artists ranging from Aretha Franklin to The Eagles of Death Metal to 50 Cent. Stay tuned for more updates. We expect to sign several more publishers in the near future. Read More →
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