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Originally Posted by Professor Riffs
You never know, not having the chords and riffs to every popular song on the planet readily available might not be such a bad thing. People might have to stop playing other people's music/writing stuff that sounds like other people's music, and start playing & writing like themselves. I reckon that could be a pretty awesome side effect to an otherwise totally crappy scenario.
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Another side of it is that relying on tab to figure out songs you want to play prevents you from developing your ear, and having a good ear and being able to pick stuff up on the fly is essential towards being a good musician, in my opinion. I think guitarists should try more to figure out songs the way I always have, from the time I was learning up to the present: play a few seconds of the CD, pause it, try to play what you heard on guitar, rewind and play again until you've got it, move on to the next section, repeat, etc etc.