You’ve been waiting for it patiently; we’ve been working on it diligently; and now, it’s finally ready and going live to the site! I’m talking, of course, about tab editing, one of the most requested missing features on MXTabs.net. Until now, that is. Read on to learn more…

MXTabs.net Tab Editing

As promised, now it’s possible for anyone who has previously submitted a tab to MXTabs.net to login and edit their guitar, bass or drum tabs. If logged in, simply look for the Edit This Tab button on the tab page itself, or look for the Edit This Tab link in the “submitted tabs” area of your MXTabs.net profile page.

Both will bring you to the tab revisions submission page, which is divided into 4 easy steps. The first step allows you to add additional details to your tab if you wish (see Tab Details below!), the second step involves the actual editing of your guitar, bass or drum tab body, and the third step requires you to list the major revisions you’ve made to your tab. Finally, the fourth step asks if you would like to keep the current rating of your tab or clear the rating and start over. This is particularly useful, for instance, if you are just adding a few missing slides to your otherwise 5-Star guitar tab, for you would probably want to keep your current rating. However, if you were completely revamping a tab that had a low rating, maybe you would choose to clear the rating and have members vote on the new version? The choice is yours!

Once you hit the Submit Tab Revisions button, your revised tab will enter a moderation queue – where it will be verified by select members of the MXTabs.net community – and will begin displaying on the site within a few short days.

MXTabs.net Tab Details

As mentioned above, the first step of the Tab Editing process allows you to add additional details to your tab. These optional Tab Details (which now also appear when submitting a tab to MXTabs.net) are mostly instrument-specific and ask you questions such as: Which effects pedals are needed to play your guitar tab? Does your bass tab require a 4-string or 5-string bass? And what drum kit components are used in your drum tab? Some of the other options include the ability to add user tags, indicate what tempo the piece is in, and assign a difficulty rating to your tab. Soon we will begin displaying these tab details on all tab display pages, and we plan on incorporating the data into song searches in the future as well. Pretty cool, no?

Although it’s optional, we hope you will consider editing any tabs you may have already submitted to MXTabs.net to include these extra tab details. Think of it as a good karma exercise – just a few minutes of your time will provide other musicians with a TON of valuable information when learning a new tab, information they won’t find on any other tab site. Who knows, maybe you’ll win the lottery someday in return!

Either way, we hope you enjoy the ability to edit your MXTabs.net guitar, bass & drum tabs. It’s just the next step in our grand scheme to rule the world… er, I mean provide the serious musician with serious tabs. Rock on!