Is there such a thing as GOOD TAB? I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist on line. What about in books? Are there any kind of SIGNS I can look for that would tell me I've PROBABLY got a decent product in my hands? A certain publishing company or author / transcriber with a good reputation for doing QUALITY work?

Now, the long part of the story. Skip this part, if you want. I just stumbled across a newly published (I think) book of early Van Halen (DLR) guitar transcriptions. Not sure if there's "tab" in there or not. But it got me thinking that maybe I should start looking into tab books again. I bought a few when I first started playing. They didn't work for me, and I wrote it off as my own incompetence.

So I just pulled out a book for the first time in over 15 years called "Led Zeppelin Complete [sic]". It is HORRENDOUS! First of all, it was originally published in 1973. So there's NOTHING from "Physical Graffiti" or later in this so-called "COMPLETE" book. Then I opened to a couple of random pages and found OBVIOUS, INEXCUSABLE mistakes AT FIRST GLANCE!! (Example: a chord marked as "F" with the tab clearly showing an "F minor" chord!) I got this thing in the early '90s. You would THINK they would have corrected simple **** like that in the um-teen years since its original printing! Now it's 35 years later. This book is STILL in print! And -- based on the reviews at Amazon -- I'm thinking it STILL hasn't been corrected!!

Anyway, I guess I've said enough. Advice? (I don't have the patience or attention span for learning to read real sheet music!)

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Oops! I accidently posted this in the BASS section, didn't I? If someone could move this thread over to the GUITAR T-n-T section (and delete this post), that'd be swell.

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