http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5305520.stm


What drives talented youngsters more than the desire to play their favorite songs ?

I think the future of live music is looking very dull indeed.

Miserable bar stewards. I've been playing 20 years and still have a peak when I can't figure something out, and although loads of them are wrong it's fun figuring out what's good and what's not.

They're not trying to stop budding musicians, they just want their money. It's what happens when corporations get involved with things.

We must all stop singing these songs in our own homes and particularily outside when public performance issues come into play. Humming and whistling will probably be OK as long as it is fairly tuneless.

Sad news indeed. Sometimes this world just really pi55es you off.

Whilst working it out does make you a better player tab sites must have launched a million young players into the first songs.

On top of the news that guitar sales are at record highs it's pretty ironic. Don't they realise that the free availabilty of music and such resources over the internet is what is fueling the fire.

Serves them right if they screw it all up for themselves.

thats gutting news! I often use these sites just to sample certain bands music until the offficial book is available then go out and buy it for the correct versions if I like it. The same goes for sites like limewire I use this quite a bit, but again just as a sample to new records/bands. I probbably buy more music because of these types of site than I otherwise would yet because its free downloading its frowned upon.

Only just started playing so these sites have been tool to make me learn.
many of the sites I used have been taken down over the last couple of months.
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ is still up but the popups drive me mad.