What Is Ultimate-Guitar.com

Ultimate-Guitar.com is a one stop super forum for anyone who plays an instrument (especially guitar) to speak their minds about related (or even non related) topics. Members work together to create better and better arrangements of music in the form of guitar tabulature. Some of these terms may seem unfamiliar as of right now but I will explain later the different terms that we, at Ultimate-Guitar.com, use to achieve our goals.

As a new comer I'm sure you would love to know what the goals we have actually are. Overall we have one main goal that encompasses everything. That is, to become a better guitarist. There are hundreds of experts who have years of experience who would love to help you out to become hone the skills of your craft. Experts love to express their knowledge about guitar and are constantly creating new lessons and teaching newer members how to be able to preform on stage!

Not only do we have help you learn your instrument, this forum also is an amazing place to find other musicians for your band! You would be surprise how many people live around your area who are looking for someone to jam with. All you have to do is look around the forum for ads of people looking for musicians or a band and you will fit right in. Ultimate-Guitar.com makes it easy for anyone to make new friends who love making music just like you.

Ultimate-Guitar.com is not strictly business either! It is here for anyone to discuss anything musically related. Are you looking for a new Guitar and you want to know what other people think about the one you are considering? Will we have that here so you can be one hundred percent sure that your purchase will encompass all of your expectations!

How Am I Part Of The Group?

This is a question you may be wondering. I have been apart of Ultimate-Guitar.com for years now. I joined just a little bit after I started playing guitar and I wanted to find a community to fit my needs as a guitarist. I usually go on the forum at least one a week to obtain new guitar tabs or post some fixes that I have made to a previously made tab. Also, I love helping new players learn to do more advance techniques like finger picking or sweep picking. I also love to help people decide on what guitar the would like to get. I know a lot about guitar as I have customized my own to my preferences.

Special Terms We Use!

As a member of Ultimate-Guitar.com there are many terms that you should know to be successful.

 The Neck: The part of the guitar that your hand holds down the strings.

Fret: A fret is one of the sections of a guitar on the neck that separates the different notes to be played by the musician

Tab: A tab is a form of sheet music made specifically for written down guitar music. There are 6 lines symbolizing the actual strings on the guitar. The numbers on the strings are what frets are needed to be pressed down to play the note that the tab is referring to. Here is an example of what a tab looks like.

Pickups: They are the part of the guitar the lies underneath the strings where you pick them. These pickups are only on electric guitars and are used to send musical signals out to an amplifier to produce the sounds to be much loader.

Those are basically the main terms you will need to know if you want to succeed in this discourse community!

Types of Written Material We Use

There are many ways us members of Ultimate-Guitar.com use written material to obtain our goals. The main form of communication are definitely tabs. Everyone wants to learn that one song they just loved to hear on the radio and if there is no tab for it online it could seriously make the individuals frustrated because they cannot learn it by ear yet. This is why the more expert members of the forum pick up the slack and constantly create and revise these tabs for the average player to learn and get better. Eventually they will be able to compose these tabs and help out even newer members. Its a cycle that will never be broken of students becoming masters and teaching other students of their own.

Tabs really are the main form of communication but communication is also made between users to learn about certain things, like who is looking for a band or a musician. Also many discussions are made like the guitar of the month article. All of these different types of writings come together to help everyone become a better guitarist.

Things You Need To Know To Be Succesful

I'm sure many of you who are reading this have used some kind of forum before. To really get the full experience you really cannot just read the posts but you must also make posts of your own ideas and get feedback from other users. If you are just reading other peoples posts your are limiting yourself and sacrificing your ability to learn much more then you could ever learn just by reading.

Also, when it comes to Guitar Tabs on the website you will definitely want to know which tab is the most reliable out of all of them. The first thing you can do is check the rating of the tab that you are looking at.

As you can see, this tab entitled "Tears Dont Fall" has 52 votes and a rating of only 4 stars. This shows the use that some of the more expert members has found a problem with this tab. Luckily, Ultimate-Guitar.com has multiple versions of the same tab that people have edited!

Take a look at all these different versions. You want to look at these to tell what tab you would like to learn so you can play the song correctly. Version one, which we were looking at, only had four stars while version 6 has 5 stars, which is the highest rated tab!

Now that you have know how to select the most reliable tab you are on your way to becoming a better guitarist!