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Recommendations for alternatives to Ultimate Guitar/Chordify/Songsterr?
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BlindFrog lemmy.world BlindFrog@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
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It'd be nice to not be pushed into subscriptions or downloading an app to make a mobile website readable.

And these usually take up the first page of results, so I can't help but feel that the plain, actually usable websites are buried. What else do you guys use?

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betterdeadthanreddit lemmy.world betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-06
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There's one that some bot was promoting recently. If someone comes along and suggests a site that rhymes with "sword tomb", I'd skip it. Spambots get fucked.

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HeartyOfGlass piefed.social HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-04
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Freetar is my jam. Minimal, FOSS frontend for U-G; sort of like what Invidious is to YouTube.

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emb lemmy.world emb@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Freetar is an alternative frontend for UltimateGuitar. It cool that it's not so annoying. But the mobile experience can be worse than UG w/ adblock, so it doesn't really solve that problem.

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emb lemmy.world emb@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Freetar is an alternative frontend for UltimateGuitar. It cool that it's not so annoying. But the mobile experience can be worse than UG w/ adblock, so it doesn't really solve that problem.

But yeah, in general I don't have a great answer. It surprises me that I don't know of any prominent websites that openly share general tabs and lead sheets and don't suck.

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serpineslair lemmy.world serpineslair@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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Idk about mobile, but there is metaltabs.org (obv if it is specifically metal you are after).

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emb lemmy.world emb@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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If you like video game music, there's https://gametabs.net/

Or https://www.ninsheetmusic.org/ It's sheet music, but some are workable for guitar.

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SpongyAneurysm feddit.org SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-06-29
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I recommend actual, physical books.
It helps me keep my practice distraction free.

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