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I used to use Powertab Editor to read powertabs to learn solos and popular rock songs, and it was by far the most effective method for me personally.
After finally recovering from a wrist injury (chronic sprain/muscle inflammation) I'm eager to revisit it and begin learning once again. Now, however, there seems to be all sorts of options i.e. Ultimate Guitar PRO, TuxGuitar and GuitarPro seem to be the most popular ones -
I've done a bit of research into each one and they seem very similar pricewise and featurewise - are there any lesser known ones that are worth looking into?
Also some of the above seem to have a library of 'power tabs' available to download into the software if you pay a subscription fee - is there not a free library somewhere? I don't recall paying for power tabs when I was first starting out?
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I've posted a link to a reddit archive of two zips with thousands of tabs in which you can download in a previous comment so that's well worth downloading too.
oh yeah, I can, I think it was when I installed Tonebridge on my iPad.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
PowerTab is my favourite for tabbing stuff out myself, once I've discovered everything online is slightly (or massively) wrong, or I'm amalgamating multiple parts for a single guitar. PowerTab prints the nicest (esp. multiple parts) for an old duffer that likes hard copy.
TuxGuitar allows me to check that the GuitarPro versions on UG are also not quite what I'm after.
I'm fortunate enough to have earned free UG pro membership for having submitted a few tabs (which other people no doubt think are slightly wrong).
I'll often give something a quick look on Songsterr as a jump start because it's quick and easy.
In the end, working it out for yourself still helps it stick the best, although this will sometimes take longer than I have time for/care to admit.