Bass Tabs

A statement on bass tabs.

Tablature is a form of musical notation used on the internet due to its inherently simple nature and portability. While standard musical notation represents the rhythm and duration of each note and its pitch relative to the scale based on a twelve tone division of the octave, tablature is instead operationally based, indicating where a finger should be pressed to generate a note. Tablature tells when to start a note, but often there is no indication of when to stop sounding it, so duration is at the discretion of the performer to a greater extent than is the case in conventional musical notation.

We personally believe that bass tabs are not violating of US or International Copyright law, and in no way harms the livelihood of the musicians who created the original song. We are providing an education service to the benifit of musicians everywhere, including the artists we feature on this site.

Bass tabs do not infringe upon publishers' copyrights because they do not come from pre-existing printed resources and are not entirely accurate representations of songs. Furthermore, internet tablature facilitates an educational relationship between music student (the one who downloads tabs) and music teacher (the one who created a tab file). This merely expands on a common method of music instruction, wherein the teacher interprets a fledgling musician's favorite recordings.