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Ultimate Guitar Tabs - Your Path to Becoming A Successfull Cover Artist
Tested version: 1.3.1
Latest version: 1.4.5
Requires Android: from 1.6
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Summary
With tabs and chords for over 300,000 songs, ultimate-guitar.com is a favorite among musicians, especially guitar players. Now there’s a mobile version for your Android smartphone. This app gives you all the tools needed to join the thousands (millions?) of other cover artists on YouTube.
Find out what Ultimate Guitar Tabs can do in our test.
Features & Use
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Ultimate Guitar Tabs starts up directly with the app’s key feature: searching for tabs and chords. The search function works just as smoothly as the app’s “big brother” including search predictions. Search results can be listed alphabetically or by popularity. You can also limit your search to specific bands. Finally, you have the option of viewing the 100 most popular tabs or pick a random tab.
In the Tab Pcks section, all the UG tabs are divided into different categories e.g. rock, metal, pop or easy – this is a great way to find new tabs that fit your musical tastes and skills.
In addition to tabs and other main features, UG Tabs also offer a bit more:
- By saving your tabs as favorites you won’t need an internet connection because all your favorite songs can be stored directly on your SD card. Definitely a plus for those of us without unlimited data plans. If you have an Ultimate Guitar Community community, you can even synchronize your favorites online
- Like on the internet page, you can transpose your chords up or down in terms of pitch to match your guitar’s tuning. Very useful for people that know the basics about guitar tuning and pitch.
- Another very useful feature is integrated song playback. If you have a version of the song saved on your smartphone (with the appropriate ID-tags), you can play it directly from the app. Unfortunately, you can’t listen to a particular section of the second because pause and play are the only buttons available.
- Tabs and lyrics can also be sent from the app via email, but they are virtually impossible to read once you receive them. The problem is that the tabs and lyrics are inserted directly into the body of the email. When you open up the email, your email app or provider automatically edits the text so that everything is completely jumbled. To solve this issue, the developers should allow you to send lyrics and tabs as .txt attachments instead.
Bottom Line:
UG Tabs is an extremely useful app for dedicated guitar players or rock star wannabies. Despite some minor improvements that could be made to the app, UG Tabs does exactly what it’s designed to do.
Screen & Controls
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Ultimate Guitar Tabs is easy and intuitive to use. When viewing tabs, you can easily adjust the text size with pinch-to-zoom. Even the text font can be changed by selecting from six different fonts included with the app. The famous auto-scroll feature from the website is also included and automatically adjusts to your screen position.
Speed & Stability
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Ultimate Guitar Tabs is, for the most part, pretty stable and reliable as long as you have an SD card. The app did crash when I tried opening tabs without any SD card. Since everyone should make a habit of always having an SD card, this is hardly qualifies as a problem.
Price/Performance Ratio
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Ultimate Guitar Tabs can be purchased from the Android Market for $2.99. The price is justified for an app that does a great job of complementing the popular website.
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Market Comments
Ryan, Apr 18, 2012
Tabs Like A Boss!!!!! :D This is the quintessential guitar tab app available. A must have! Definitely worth every penny! Cheers!
Grant, Apr 18, 2012
For all of you amateur guitarists out there! this is the perfect application for you...
George, Apr 18, 2012
Helpful if it worked Not to happy paid for a app that can't let me type in my search. Hope its fix soon or I'll continue to write bad reviews and give this app a bad rating.
Matt, Apr 18, 2012
Great app Great app...would love the ability to edit songs in my favorites for example, to include chords for the entire song instead of just first verse.
Ian, Apr 17, 2012
Brilliant Easy to use and save your favourite tabs. Literally the 'ultimate' app for guitar players!
Kevin, Apr 17, 2012
More tabs Needs more tab pro tabs. earn the 5! And also occasionally freezes up while playing complicated songs through galaxy s2
shaine, Apr 17, 2012
Awesome app! Reccommened for any musician on the move like me and great to have a wide range of music with the random tab button :)
Ben, Apr 17, 2012
Great app. Was a bit pricey as I paid for all the extras..other than that..great app
Geoff, Apr 17, 2012
used to work, now it's crap This app use to be great and now that I upgraded to my galaxy nexus it is crap because it basically will not open anymore. I know you leave reviews but I had to let everybody know that this 1 sucks the big 1. If they can manage to fix this problem then maybe I'll change my rating.
Darin, Apr 17, 2012
force close Used to work fine but now force closes everytime I try to type something. Please fix!
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