www.power-tab.net

Any Power Tabbers on the site? I suggest looking into it, as it is an invaluable tool that helps produce more consistent, more accurate, and easier to read tabs than general ASCII. It would be great if we could have our own archive of Pillows Power Tabs - we could have our own little transcription community, or an alternative page on the "guitar tabs" page exclusively for Power Tabs. Oh, and Power Tab is freeware, so I can't see much of an excuse not to, except for learning the software (it's easy, much easier than ASCII once you get the basics down - it is also easier to explain things through the tab, and to get the timing down with perfect accuracy).

Forgive me if this was posted before, but any search of "Power Tab" results in any page with the word "Tab" in it (perhaps due to the "Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group" on the bottom of the page?)

The advantage of tabs is that they use ASCII, so you can open it without problem anywhere. If people were to use another way, I'd encourage them to do sheet stuff anyway they wanted and put up a .jpg, since they're enough precise for pillows songs.

ASCII tabs constantly prove to be inaccurate, inconsistent, or just flat out incorrect (even looking at tabs of the same song on this site). But I do agree that there are advantages and disadvantages to both. Nothing can defeat the pure simplicity of an ASCII tab, but I will say that Power Tabs may actually be easier to construct, while giving intricacies that are impossible to explain through ASCII. I do consider that many of the Pillows' songs are simple, and that a simple ASCII tab will do, but nothing beats the professionality and effectiveness of a Power Tab.

have you tried to program called Guitar Pro? Mysongbook.com uses it and it's good. There are tabs an sheet music for every piece... I've never tried making my own tab with the program, but it seems good. Plus you can have tabbed drums, bass, guitars, and vocals all playing together in time...

[quote="sys2021"]have you tried to program called Guitar Pro? Mysongbook.com uses it and it's good. There are tabs an sheet music for every piece... I've never tried making my own tab with the program, but it seems good. Plus you can have tabbed drums, bass, guitars, and vocals all playing together in time...[/quote]

Guitar Pro is amazing. You can do everything and then some.

www.mysongbook.com is [i]amazing[/i], there are some truly talented tabbers on there. I thought the Power Tab Archive was great, but mysongbook completely blew it away.

However, Guitar Pro is not freeware.
And the simplicity and effectiveness of Power Tab cannot be denied.

Anyway, I have never tried to tab anything out in Guitar Pro yet. I am very new to it, but I have tabbed in Power Tab, and it is extremely easy - even moreso than ASCII, in the long run.

I use PT. GP is great, but it's not free.

I've officially been converted the GP5.

http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/653762/Guitar_Pro_5

Power Tab was amazing, because it is freeware, but it's like the creators abandoned it, and it hasn't been upgraded in God knows how long. However, once I discovered torrents, software "purchasing" has never been the same.

Tabs are kind of going through a down period right now, though, since the MPA has all the major tab sites by the balls.

I use www.ultimate-gutiar.com.
They're based in russia, so the US can't touch them.