In the absence of content, I have a small matter to take up with a majority of amateur, self-taught guitarists who post guitar tablature to the internet. My question for you is this: why do you play guitar if you can't tell one chord from the other? (Although in most guitar books I've read, the author rattles off great motives to learn to play, never failing to suggest that it 'impresses women,' so perhaps this is why. However, I have a newsflash for America's three-chord guitar heroes o'er the land: you aren't impressing women if you suck.)

I suppose that tone-deaf tablature is not news to most people who rummage the internet for help with guitar, but it's the startling consistency of the inaccuracy that has me wondering. I mean, what if recipes posted to the internet were as consistently off-base, suggesting hamster cage shavings instead of nutmeg, or antifreeze instead of Midori? I would certainly have noticed this by now, and yet, no matter how random the recipe site, the ingredients are mostly on the money. Guitar tabs, by contrast, are consistently, punishingly wrong.

And so, I have proposed a solution. Guitar heroes, gather 'round. Since you have now invested a small fortune on a guitar that far outstrips your abilities to play, and you are impressing women with the mere strum of a G chord (we're idiots that way), why not put us to work, while you have us sitting around in the bean bag chairs in your condo, admiring your chops? Have us to listen to the next song that you feel compelled to write down the tab for. Then play it. Ask us if it sounds the same. We're going to say no, because it won't. And since we have nothing invested in pretending that it does, and won't encourage you to write bashful disclaimers that it's "almost the same" when you post it to the internet, you will have that important quality check in place that will encourage you to head back to the fret board and give it another try, rather than imposing it on innocents.  

Eventually, you will learn the sad truth that open chords can't stand in for random, complex tunings, and that there is in fact another chord at the very end of the chorus that you never seem to hear. Luckily, such breakthroughs will make you a better guitarist, which may in fact impress women for real.

It certainly will, at the very least, impress women looking at your tablature on the internet.

i love the rock and roll

Why isn't top 40 music more like this? Is there a teenaged girl in America who wouldn't beg her mom for $13 bucks to buy this if she actually heard it on the radio? Not to say that the major labelfication of these types of musicians is great or anything, but there is no reason for this to only be heard by tetchy 35-year-olds in cube farms... like, uh... me...

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