Try Dharma’s Guitar Tab Feed

I have a couple of my friends out there that want to learn guitar.  I definitely recommend using guitar tabs as a method of learning.  It is a cheap effective way to learn to play guitar without needing to read music.

I have recently tested a number of ways to quickly publish some guitar tabs that I have tried out and make them readily available to friends.  The slickest way so far is to use my Diigo account to create a RSS feed.  I have a browser tool bar that allows me to add a bookmark to Diigo and the RSS feed with the click of a button.  I then publish my RSS feed in the sidebar of my blog.  In an instant the new guitar tab shows up in a list on my blog between “Quick Hits” and “Top Posts” on the right side of the blog.

I will try to add those tabs that look pretty good.  I will put in the title those tabs that are chord only and those that require picking.  An example on the list now is John Mayer’s “Why Georgia”.  There is a listing with just chords, and one for “picking”.  Both are good, but using the combination of both will allow you a better understanding of how to pick the song out.  Watching the video that I listed in the article Why Georgia Why? will allow you to see John’s fingers on his acoustic guitar. Watching musicians pick their own songs is another way to get an idea of how a song is to be played.

To check out a tab from the list all you need is to click on the link in the side bar and it should being the site up in a browser window.  (This reminds me I should post an article about RSS feed readers for those of you who follow multiple blogs or feeds.)

If you find any good guitar tabs that you recommend, those tabs especially good for beginners, please comment or e-mail me and I will try them out and add them to the feed.

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Note: One recommendation is that if you find a tab you like, print it.  There seems to be a cyclical crack down on tab and lyric sites by the RIAA. That crack down is one of the reasons that you will sometimes not find tabs with incomplete lyrics on them.  In the cases where the lyrics are not on the tab, I will often print a lyrics sheet, and write the chords on the lyrics sheet to play from.

I have been going to tab sites for years and some of my favorite tabs have disappeared from the Internet.  It has been fortunate that I had printed those tabs and kept them in a binder that I then play from.

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Happy tabbing!

P.S. I have just started adding which chords are in the tabs, so you can tell by the feed which chords are involved in the song.  This works if you are interested in learning and practicing specific chords.

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