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MXTabs.net Tab Editing & Tab Details Now Live!

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... [Continue Reading]

iTab Songbook and Tuner iPhone App to Feature Guitar Tabs from MXTabs.net

Look closely, and to the left you’ll see a screen shot of how a song tab from MXTabs.net appears on the latest version of the iTab Songbook and Tuner, an iPhone app developed by Massimilliano Marsiglietti (www.maxmars.it) that allows you to create, download, edit, and read tabs with your iPhone or iPod Touch. Although there have been several versions of this iPhone app to date, the most recent version is the first to offer free and legal guitar and bass tab downloads from MXTabs.net, and we’re... [Continue Reading]

MXTabs.net Site Update: New RSS Song Tab Feeds

Today we’d like to take a quick moment to clue everyone in to the new RSS song tab feeds that we’ve recently added to MXTabs.net. The first, a New Tabs feed, is (you guessed it!) a feed of all newly added song tabs available at MXTabs.net. We thought you might find this useful, especially as we’re currently adding hundreds of new tabs per week. You can also receive a feed of new tabs specific to your instrument. Check them out – New Guitar Tabs, New Bass Tabs, and New Drum... [Continue Reading]

Introducing Your MXTabs.net Facebook App for Song Tabs!

Today we’re proud to announce the completion of the MXTabs.net Facebook App for Song Tabs! We’ve been working diligently on this project for some time, and now that it’s finished we’re stoked to share it with all of our wonderful members. Inspired by the “My Tab Folder” within the My Account area of MXTabs.net, the MXTabs.net Facebook App for Song Tabs allows you to share what guitar, bass & drum tabs 1) you are learning, 2) you want to learn, and 3) you have... [Continue Reading]

Site Update 6/12/09

Although we continue to focus our efforts on several large projects (the MXTabs.net Facebook App, and Tab Editing functionality come to mind), from time to time we also like to revisit existing areas of the site, in the hope of finding ways to improve and enhance our member’s experience. While these changes are not always drastic, we believe that they too are essential in our quest to build the best guitar, bass & drum tab site on the internet. To keep everyone in the loop, here are a... [Continue Reading]

MXTabs.net Site Update: Auto-Scroll & Guitar Guru Notification

Earlier this week we introduced two new features to enhance your MXTabs.net user experience, so today we’d like to spend just a few minutes familiarizing you with our new additions. The first enhancement, the MXTab Scroll, is available on all guitar, bass & drum tabs on our site, and allows you to keep your hands off your computer keyboard and on your guitar while the site automatically scrolls the tab for you. Choose from six different speeds, and let ‘er rip! You can find this... [Continue Reading]

MXTabs.net Limbo Updates

Howdy folks! Yesterday we deployed several small, but valuable updates that we hope will make voting on guitar, bass & drum tabs within MXTabs.net Limbo even easier than it was before. (If you’re new to our site and are wondering, “What the h*#! is Limbo?,” then I’ll fill you in: it’s a community-based tab moderation system that allows MXTabs.net users to vote whether to “Accept” or “Deny” a submitted song tab, thus ensuring that only the... [Continue Reading]

How to Read a Drum Tab that Uses ASCII Text

As a follow-up to our post on How to Read a Guitar Tab that Uses ASCII Text, today we’re featuring a guest post by one of our very own MXTabs.net members – he goes by the username pie21 – to explain how to decipher a drum tab. Pie21 is a moderator over at the MXTabs.net Forum and is one of the leading contributers of drum tab to the MXTabs.net tab database. Take it away, pie21! Reading ASCII Drum Tabs The original motivation for tablature was to transcribe guitar and bass guitar... [Continue Reading]

MXTabs.net Street Team: Refer Visits and Win Free Prizes!

The MXTabs.net Street Team is a traffic referrer system that rewards our MXTabs members for referring other visitors by placing an MXTabs.net badge on their website, blog or social media account. To join our MXTabs.net Street team, all you have to do is login to MXTabs.net and go to your My Account page. Once you’re there, you have the option of opening the “Street Team” tab, and then select whatever code you’d like to use to post a badge on your blog, personal website, MySpace... [Continue Reading]

How to Read a Guitar Tab that Uses ASCII Text

If you’re wondering, “Where is today’s Off-Stage column?” then don’t worry… it’ll be up tomorrow. We just thought that with the many new people beginning to visit MXTabs.net, we’d better cover one of most basic aspects of our website: How to Read a Guitar Tab. So, here we go!!! How to Read a Guitar Tab Tablature, or tab for short, is a method of notating music that is played on guitar or bass guitar. Unlike standard guitar sheet music or different... [Continue Reading]

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