Ultimate Guitar

Ultimate Guitar Archive

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Type of site	Tablature archive
Owner	Eugeny Naidenov
Created by	Eugeny Naidenov
URL	http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional

Ultimate Guitar Archive, also known as Ultimate-Guitar.com or simply UG, is a large guitarist community website known for its large amount of guitar and bass tablature, reviews of music and equipment, interviews with notable musicians, online written and video lessons, and forums. It was started on October 9th, 1998 by Eugeny 'zappp' Naidenov - a student of economic faculty of Kaliningrad State University, Russia[1].

Community

UG is home to over 790,000 registered users and a strong community of forum users who frequent the site. Community members may also create guitar lessons or other related articles, and have their approved works published on the website and read by its many users. Like the tabs, the lessons and column are also rated by users, which attributes towards UG Points (or rather number of contributions), your UG score also increases, or decreases as the members rate your contribution.

Profiles

On August 16, 2007, the Ultimate Guitar site launched "UG Profiles". This added another feature to UG that other tablature sites do not feature. UG Profiles can be used for networking, advertising gear, bands, and users' own MP3 recordings, in a similar way to other sites such as Myspace; unlike other networking sites, UG Profiles are focused on those who share the interest of guitar, or bass. Users are able to add profiles for each of their bands, upload pictures of themselves, as well as gear, display their "guitar skills", join groups of interest, and upload MP3's of that specific user's work. Personally i like to go on Kensai's profile as he is so hawt and id like to rub icy hot on him. Id Also like to Jack off Jack off Jill.

MPA Conflicts

In late 2004-2005, after many tab sites began closing due to legal threats from the Music Publishers Association of America, UG saw a surge of new users flock to the community. UG, which pays licensing fees to publishers, was unaffected by MPA legal actions. As stated in an article posted on the site, UG finds the MPA to be humorous (a satirical picture stating "When you download tabs from UG, you're downloading communism" was made in response to the MPA's warnings) and does not take their warning seriously, mainly because the site is based in Russia and is not affected by American Laws. The site also pays royalties to show the tabs on their website.

• MPA Article That was posted on main site

Tablature

Tabs can be voted from 1 star (the worst) to 5 (the best) stars, and comments can be made about the tab. The highest rated tab is "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin with 327,334 votes and counting. [2]. Tabs of albums can also be submitted. Bands with large collections of tabs include:

• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Blink-182
• Metallica
• Green Day

Approximately 1500 tabs are added every few days.

There are many different types of tablature files that can be submitted to Ultimate-Guitar. Files such as basic guitar tabs and bass tabs can be read from an Internet browser in ASCII format. Guitar Pro and Power Tab files are run through programs that can play the tablature and often include multiple instrument tabs. These files can be saved and opened on the user's computer.

External links

• Ultimate Guitar Website

The Pit http://ultimate-guitar.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=11