I Heart Chordie.com
As you’ll notice if you frequent my guitar demo posts, most of the tabs I use are from Chordie.com. Why? Because it’s my favorite.
It’s not just that it’s the best-looking guitar site I know (which it is), the most user-friendly (which it is), or even the best for accurate tabs (which no guitar site is, because tabs are user-submitted, and most users vastly overestimate their tabbing skills)… these are all reasons Chordie has been my favorite guitar site since forever. But my latest reason is that Per, creator of Chordie, is also a super cool nice guy, and it’s clear to me that he really cares about making the best quality site possible. He just keeps improving it, and it’s already the best.
I can’t even recall what I initially emailed him about last December, but he checked out my site as a result, and upon seeing my guitar videos, immediately set to work creating the new feature which is now active on Chordie, that allows guitarists to attach their own Youtube videos (so long as they actually are guitar tutorials) to Chordie’s tab pages. Here’s an example. As far as I know, no other guitar sites are doing this (besides mine, which isn’t exactly a guitar site, and only I can post on it).
I helped him test this out before he opened it to the public, so it’s mostly just my videos up there right now, but there are a few others already. You need to email him to get access before you start posting your videos. This is slightly annoying, but it’s only a one-time thing, so no big deal. You can thank the dumbasses who were posting music videos instead of guitar demos (which creates copyright issues he’d rather do without). So don’t post music videos or you’ll be banned, plus I’ll hurt you (with my mind)………….. and you’ll deserve it.
But if you’re one of the many talented Youtubers I’ve seen doing guitar videos to help others learn songs, you should post them on Chordie too. It’s as easy as pasting in the Youtube URL and clicking a button or two. If you have a website, it’s good exposure. There’s a description area where you can include a link. But besides that, it’s just a nice way to contribute to the community.
And speaking of that… Another great feature Per has added is the ability to make corrections to existing tabs on the site. This, my friends, is awesome. There is so much inaccurate tab out there, it’s ridiculous. It makes me want to skin myself alive and roll around in salt. (Who’s with me?)……..
It’s sure a useful feature for me, because here, when I post a demo, I want to link to the tab, but I don’t want to link to crappy tab, and more often than not, that’s all there is out there. And I don’t have the damn patience to tab it all out myself from scratch. I play by ear. I don’t like tab. The tab I post is for other people, who need it, mostly to supplement my less-than-sufficient demos. So please people, make use of this feature. Help us clean up the internets and make it a tab-tastic place!
And these are just the latest features. A few others worth mentioning… There’s a personalized songbook section, which allows you to save, share and print your own personalized collections of tabs. You can browse other people’s songbooks. There’s a handy chord chart section which gives you all the variations for each chord. There’s a forum. The search and browse features are user-friendly as hell. More so.. actually.. than Hell… But you get the gist. Go check it out.
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Your recent postings of video tutorials are a wonderful addtion to chordie.com’s already fantastic array of resources for musicians and songwriters. Chordie went down a couple of days ago due to ‘hardware problems’. Do you have any insight as to when it will be up and running again? I miss it! Thanks, James
Thanks James. I just hope it’ll catch on and not keep being only my videos up there. It’s so easy to make videos nowadays, and there are so many better guitar players out there than me. Come on people. I want to be doing at least as much learning/improving as I’m doing teaching/showing off. Anyway, to answer your question (way late. sorry), you’ve probably already been pleased to notice Chordie’s back up and running!
I can only echo what James has already posted here. The video tutorials are a very welcome addition to Chordie.
I’ve only just about managed to grasp the art of singing and strumming together (’tis a rather disturbing sound I make though, kinda like a bagpipe being deflated) but maybe once I sound kinda OKish I might attempt to add to the videos.
Lovely version of Karma Police, Brooke.
Moddish.
Thanks Craig. I look forward to your videos. I know what you speak of. Singing and playing at the same time is an art unto itself. Inevitably, when I start singing, the guitar intricacies start giving way to sloppy strumming. I’m amazed at people who can sing well and play really complicated guitar parts at the same time. But I think a certain level of obsession is required to be *that good* at anything. Or so I rationalize.