mettelus Posted Wednesday at 02:23 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 02:23 PM Sorry for the late post on this but I just noticed it! Guitar Lesson has had a free database in place for years, the only catch is that you need to wait 15 seconds for each one before it downloads. This is nice if you want to hunt and peck and only want a few. It has also has had the ability to pay them to download the entire database (link at the top of that page), which is normally $18, but is on sale for $9 through April (ends today). I finally got sick of the hunt and peck aspect, so just got it. The download is 125MB (it unpacks to nearly 1.3GB), and contains over 52K gpx files. Bear in mind these are files for Guitar Pro (but will also open in some other VSTs, like Ample Sound). As an aside, they also have a standing 10% discount on the Guitar Pro app for anyone interested, which I believe can also be used during a Guitar Pro sale event. Again, sorry for the late post on this, but the regular price is $18 anyway, so not a "massive" deal, BUT this site is a nice alternative to Guitar Pro's "My Songbook" subscription (which as far as I can tell is using this site's gpx files anyway, but not sure on that one). 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZincT Posted Wednesday at 02:42 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 02:42 PM (edited) Great find! Purchased, thanks @mettelus Edited Wednesday at 02:50 PM by ZincT 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mettelus Posted Wednesday at 03:00 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 03:00 PM One interesting perk to this database came to light immediately. There are quite a few files that have both a gp3 and gp4 file formats (and when downloading them for free there is no distinction between which is in what format). Of the three sets I just checked out, the gp3 version is more accurate (by far in one case for the lead). Changes the playing field a bit when you can just double-click files and "boom" they are available to use immediately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZincT Posted Wednesday at 03:27 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 03:27 PM (edited) 28 minutes ago, mettelus said: One interesting perk to this database came to light immediately. There are quite a few files that have both a gp3 and gp4 file formats (and when downloading them for free there is no distinction between which is in what format). Of the three sets I just checked out, the gp3 version is more accurate (by far in one case for the lead). Changes the playing field a bit when you can just double-click files and "boom" they are available to use immediately. Cool, thanks. Care to give some examples of this so I can check them out? Cheers Just browsing now - wow so much stuff in there! Edited Wednesday at 03:28 PM by ZincT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted Wednesday at 04:14 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 04:14 PM The copyright police came down on this app a long time ago. There's a lot of stuff that is missing from this download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZincT Posted Wednesday at 04:21 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 04:21 PM 6 minutes ago, kitekrazy1 said: There's a lot of stuff that is missing from this download. What exactly are you expecting for 9 bucks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mettelus Posted Wednesday at 07:14 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 07:14 PM 3 hours ago, ZincT said: Cool, thanks. Care to give some examples of this so I can check them out? Cheers Just browsing now - wow so much stuff in there! I drilled straight into the Def Leppard folder when I opened it up, so the three referenced above were Animal, Armageddon It, and Bringing on the Heartbreak. That format comment won't be across the board, of course, since it is 100% dependent on who made (or last edited) the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZincT Posted Wednesday at 07:27 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:27 PM 12 minutes ago, mettelus said: I drilled straight into the Def Leppard folder when I opened it up, so the three referenced above were Animal, Armageddon It, and Bringing on the Heartbreak. That format comment won't be across the board, of course, since it is 100% dependent on who made (or last edited) the file. Checking them out now. Cheers 👍🏻 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted yesterday at 12:06 AM Share Posted yesterday at 12:06 AM 7 hours ago, ZincT said: What exactly are you expecting for 9 bucks? If you only seen the stuff you never paid for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Walton Posted yesterday at 01:10 AM Share Posted yesterday at 01:10 AM 8 hours ago, kitekrazy1 said: The copyright police came down on this app a long time ago. There's a lot of stuff that is missing from this download. I don't think the police can do anything about Guitar Pro the app itself, but I'm sure that copying official tabs would get pulled. I wonder what this guitar lesson site had to pull from the database. A few tabs I opened certainly were not the My Songbook versions or official ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted yesterday at 01:32 AM Share Posted yesterday at 01:32 AM People use to create and distribute these on tab sites or back when you could have your own site littered with ads. We forget that this is a great piece of software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluzdog Posted yesterday at 01:00 PM Share Posted yesterday at 01:00 PM Well that's a rabbit hole....... I didn't find Billy Strings, Pat Travers, Phish is pretty limited as is Grateful Dead. There are lesson files, and guitar and bass exercises peppered in. That is an insane amount of content. Thanks for the heads up @mettelus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Walton Posted yesterday at 04:25 PM Share Posted yesterday at 04:25 PM 3 hours ago, bluzdog said: Well that's a rabbit hole....... I didn't find Billy Strings, Pat Travers, Phish is pretty limited as is Grateful Dead. There are lesson files, and guitar and bass exercises peppered in. That is an insane amount of content. Thanks for the heads up @mettelus! I was going to post the same. I grabbed it but many of my favorite artists and bands literally have nothing or very little. Bands like Phish and the Dead with insane output there is very little offered. Other bands like Paramore have nothing but I'm betting was pulled because of copyright request as they have some official ones on the market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skijumptoes Posted yesterday at 04:33 PM Share Posted yesterday at 04:33 PM 3 minutes ago, Brian Walton said: Other bands like Paramore have nothing but I'm betting was pulled because of copyright request as they have some official ones on the market. That is so weird, as I was going through them and looked for Paramore and there was nothing there, can't believe I come on here and read this 30 minutes later! But as I got curious, I found this site where you can download all artists in one download: https://gtptabs.com/tabs/16/paramore.html The individual files don't have the artist name as part of the file, but luckily MacOS lets you append text to a selection of files so just done that and all good! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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