Has anyone subscribed to GuitarPro’s MySongBook tabs? Any comments on quality, complexity, variety? They claim to offer full scores, “simplified” full scores, and easy arrangements. But of course I can’t really confirm that without a subscription!
I’m an advancing beginner. I have plenty of songs I’m working on and enjoying, but sometimes get the itch to go find a decent tab for a song that Justin does not provide. GuitarPro are offering a 2-year subscription to all songs in their library for $30 US. And it does not auto-renew! That said, one gets what one pays for. When I purchase a cookbook, I feel my investment is sound if I get one solid recipe from it. Applying similar logic here, if I seriously use one or two tabs per year I’d be happy.
The tabs I have reviewed via GP6 seem to be of a good standard and I suspect more reliable than sources like Ultimate Guitar for example. $15 per year for 2 years seems like a good deal, think my last sub was around 40 US. My calculator equates that to 4.1 cents a day. What’s to lose ?
My thoughts exactly! The price is about equivalent to one glass of nice wine in a bar per year. Given that I rarely go out these days, it’s a risk I’m willing to take.
In fact I just recranked my calculator based on some recently acquired Winter/Christmas beer from my favourite Belgian brewery. On a Euro/Dollar fx rate its about $10 for a dozen 25 cl bottles and I can’t see them lasting me 2 years, let alone make this Christmas !!
Hi Judi, I have Guitar Pro and I hardly have time to use it, so you just reminded me that I should, so I will take a look this weekend, god knows what is on it, cheers HEC
You actually can browse the mysongbook materials without buying them. You just can’t download them.
There’s some good stuff in there. It’s a little overwhelming to sort based on ability level, though. They have “categories” but they don’t line up as well as some other sources/catalogs (such as Justin’s songs app, or even UG’s difficulty ratings).
But if you do find something at your level, then it’s definitely going to be a quality tab. Pretty much all the detail you need to work out what to play and how to play it.
I let my sub to mysongbook lapse, but the deal has me thinking about re-upping that.
I’ve subscribed to it for the past 2 years because it was really inexpensive but then barely used it because I hate my Windows laptop and much prefer my iPad but (as far as I’m aware) it’s not iPad compatible. What I saw of it looked useful and good value but I’ve not renewed this time just because I don’t want to use my laptop
I have it - it’s pretty good. I’d say generally the tabs are higher quality than ultimate-guitar. However, the selection isn’t as good as Ultimate-guitar. Guitar pro however is a much much better way to learn via tabs than ultimate-guitar. I look at it as another useful tool in the arsenal.
I have encountered tabs that didn’t seem quite right on it as well.
Cheers, Toby, I will do, mate. Honestly, I forget what I have and don’t use any of it to its full potential; it’s all about time arghhhhh cheers HEC
Hi Judi, maybe too late, but you don’t have to get a subscription, instead you can buy “credits”.
Starting at $ 2 for one credit, $ 8 for five credits, $ 20 for 20 credits and buy songs individually. That’s what I did so far.
The quality of the tabs seems to be really good, but often maybe a bit complex for a beginner. But nevertheless one can get out helpful information to play a song by reducing complexity on their own.
I use Guitar Pro all the time, especially the Songbook. I find the selection of songs good and quite accurate. I also use GP for transcribing songs from pdf and also creating my own songs etc. - slight learning curve but well worth it and a good way of getting into transcribing.
