Absolute Tabs

The site is a little bit different than others because it has a South African theme to it.

There are a limited number of tablatures (just over 3,000) and the site mainly concentrates on ones from South Africa. It has a separate tablature section for South African and Afrikaan songs.

The site has CD reviews, interviews and tutorials.
The guitar tutorials are quite useful and are worth a read.

 

Visit Site: http://www.tabs.co.za/

Available Tabs: guitar, bass

Negatives: Lacks depth in database and you have to download the file to your computer. You have to search from the alphabetical list.

Positives: The review section is quite interesting, with about 26 in-depth review of South African artist’s CD releases. There are also a handful of gig reviews.

The tutorial section is mainly for the beginner/intermediate player and includes a detailed explanation of how to read and write tablature and a section on chord formation. At the time this review was done, the HTML wasn’t working, so you may have to use the text version.

Search Method: Has it’s own database.

Other Resources:
1. Lessons
2. Reviews

911Tabs.com

This site searches and sorts results from a large number of other major tablature web sites. The site efficiently displays the search results by number of tablatures available for each song and by instrument (guitar, bass, drum, piano, powertabs and guitar pro).

Visit Site: http://www.911tabs.com/
Available Tabs: guitar, bass, drums, piano
Negatives: Some broken links for sites that no longer exist or can not offer tablatures anymore.
Positives: Search results are laid out well.
Search Method: Meta search site.
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