We’ve been busy cleaning up data on many of these tabs, and today we’d like to share the results with the following Bass Guitar Scales, Exercises & Riffs.

For example, check out this C Major Scale in 1st and 2nd Position (perfect for a beginning bassist), or this E Blues Scale (you’ll need to become familiar with this one if you plan on rockin’ out à la Led Zeppelin or Rolling Stones style). To view all of our Bass Guitar Scales, click the link below:

We also offer Bass Guitar Exercises to assist you in practicing various bass guitar performing techniques. These range from Beginner Slide Exercises to Intermediate Slap Exercises and Advanced Bossa Nova Tapping Exercises. Check out all of our exercises here:

Finally, over the years our members have submitted dozens upon dozens of original Bass Guitar Riffs to MXTabs.net. Many of these riffs, such as this Beginner Blues Bass Riff, can be used as a springboard to inspire your own riffs. This is especially true if your creative juices are running low which happens to even the best bassist at times. Click below to get your juices flowing again:

Please help us to expand our selection of “educational tabs” by submitting your own bass guitar scale, exercise, or riff to MXTabs.net. Because we don’t need to license these types of tabs from music publishers, we’ll be able to send them straight to Limbo, where YOU can vote on whether or not they become official MX tabs. Thank you!

This list doesn’t represent all of the Irish bands available from MXTabs.net, but it certainly speaks to the quality and diversity of the Emerald Isle’s contributions to rock & pop music. We hope that you enjoy!

(Please note that due to current licensing deals, any band marked with an * will have the vast majority of their tabs viewable in places OUTSIDE of North America.)

1. The Cranberries – guitar, bass & drum tabs *
2. Dropkick Murphys – guitar, bass & drum tabs *
3. The Frames – guitar, bass & drum tabs
4. Horslips – guitar, bass & drum tabs
5. JJ72 – guitar, bass & drum tabs
6. Mourning Beloveth – guitar, bass & drum tabs
7. Rory Gallagher – guitar, bass & drum tabs
8. Snow Patrol – guitar, bass & drum tabs
9. Stiff Little Fingers – guitar, bass & drum tabs
10. The Thrills – guitar, bass & drum tabs
11. U2 – guitar, bass & drum tabs *
12. Westlife – guitar, bass & drum tabs

Think you can write a better tab? Please consider submitting a guitar, bass, or drum tab to MXTabs.net. Thanks!

The 20 bands listed below represent just a small sampling of the many great Punk Rock tabs available on MXTabs.net. Some of the groups are most accurately described as Post-Punk (The Cure), others as New Wave (The Cars) or Punk Revival (Green Day), but they’re all quintessentially Punk, meaning they’re loud, fast, and confrontational. In other words, they’re a lot of fun to play! Check ‘em out:

1. 88 Fingers Louie – guitar, bass & drum tabs
2. Adolescents – guitar, bass & drum tabs
3. Black Flag – guitar, bass & drum tabs
4. The Cars – guitar, bass & drum tabs
5. The Clash – guitar, bass & drum tabs
6. Crass – guitar, bass & drum tabs
7. The Cure – guitar, bass & drum tabs
8. Dead Kennedys – guitar, bass & drum tabs
9. Echo & the Bunnymen – guitar, bass & drum tabs
10. Elvis Costello – guitar, bass & drum tabs
11. A Flock of Seagulls – guitar, bass & drum tabs
12. The Germs – guitar, bass & drum tabs
13. Green Day – guitar, bass & drum tabs
14. Husker Du – guitar, bass & drum tabs
15. The Jam – guitar, bass & drum tabs
16. New Order – guitar, bass & drum tabs
17. The Ramones – guitar, bass & drum tabs
18. Sex Pistols – guitar, bass & drum tabs
19. Suicidal Tendencies – guitar, bass & drum tabs
20. Talking Heads – guitar, bass & drum tabs

If we’re missing a song tab by any of these bands, please take the opportunity to embrace the Punk Rock do-it-yourself aesthetic and submit a guitar, bass or drum tab to MXTabs.net. Thanks!

Well, this year I’ve had a change of heart (pun intended?) and have decided to do an old-fashioned, “I heart Valentine’s Day” post featuring Guitar, Bass & Drum Tab of Popular Love Songs. The selected songs represent a wide range of musical eras and styles, but they all share one very important theme: the expression of love and devotion.

Enjoy, and Happy Valentine’s Day!

Are we missing one of your favorite love songs? Or do you think you can write a better tab of one of the love songs listed above? Is so, please submit a guitar, bass, or drum tab to MXTabs.net. Thank you!

We created the Tab Folder to make it easy for you to share your favorite guitar, bass & drum tabs – as well as your learning progress – with not only your fellow MXers (via the MXTabs.net Profile Page), but also with your friends and family on Facebook (via the MXTabs.net Facebook App for Song Tabs).

Now we’re taking the sharing to a whole new level, by allowing you to Automatically Post Your MXTabs.net “Tab Folder” Updates to Your Twitter Account!

How can you accomplish such a magical feat?

If you’re already an MXTabs.net member and have your own Twitter account, it’s easy. First, login to MXTabs.net, click on My Account (located at the very top of the page, on the right-hand side), scroll to the bottom, click “Authenticate With Twitter,” enter your Twitter username and password, then click “Allow.” And that’s it! Any changes made henceforth to your Tab Folder will automatically be posted via your personal Twitter feed in the following manner:

kaliphonia I want to learn this “The Underdog” guitar tab from MXTabs http://bit.ly/5SB0Ph

On the other hand, if you’re a guitar, bass or drum player with a Twitter account, and you’re looking for an easy way to share your favorite tabs, simply register with MXTabs.net and follow the same steps as above.

Finally (phew!), if you’re an existing MXTabs.net member wondering what all the fuss regarding Twitter is about, what better way to find out than to register with Twitter and give it a try? Not only can you follow MXTabs.net on Twitter (where you can get site updates, general music news/reviews, chat directly with The Sheriff, and participate in the occasional give-a-way), but there a TON of bands, record labels, music promoters, radio stations, etc. to interact with is well. Check out this Artists, Bands and Musicians on Twitter Spreadsheet to see for yourself.

We hope you enjoy this new feature of MXTabs.net, and we hope to see you in the Twitterverse soon!

At the time we stated that we would start displaying this information on tab display pages in the near future. Well, that time has arrived! You can now view Tab Details on any MXTabs.net guitar, bass & drum tabs that have had this additional data added to them. The Tab Details will display just to the right of the tab itself. Here’s an example: From the Inside Out a Guitar Tab by Hillsong United.

We’re displaying these Tab Details in the hopes of providing musicians with as much pertinent information as possible when learning a new tab. As far as we know, no other tab site offers anything similar to this, which just goes to show you how serious MXTabs.net is about providing the best guitar, bass & drum tabs on the interwebz.

One thing we’d like to point out – and this is important – is that all Tab Details are provided by you, the tabber. As such, we strongly encourage anyone who has submitted a tab to MXTabs.net in the past to login and edit your tabs to include this additional information. Once logged in, simply look for the Edit This Tab button in the black strip directly above your tab, or look for the Edit This Tab link in the “submitted tabs” area of your MXTabs.net profile page. Just a few minutes of your time will help other musicians immensely in learning your tab.

We look forward to seeing your revised tabs with Tab Details rolling in. Thank you in advance!

So, based on their findings, who was the #1 artist of the 2000s? Wait for it… wait for it… SPOON! That’s right, American indie rockers Spoon were the best reviewed band of the decade according to metacritic. Now, before you fly off the handle saying that Band X or Band Y put out WAY better material during this time, please read Ten Years of Metacritic: The Best Music of the Decade. Not only will this article provide you with metacritic’s full list of top reviewed artists of the decade, but it will also tell you the specific criteria they used to determine the rankings.

But, back to the tabs. Below you will find a sampling of Guitar, Bass & Drum tabs for the Best Music of the Decade. As always, we’ve only listed artists and tabs that MXTabs.net have legally secured licenses to display. Happy 2010!

• Spoon – Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs
• Drive-By Truckers – Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs
• Iron & Wine – Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs
• The Hold Steady – Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs
• Elbow – Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs
• Low – Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs
• Sufjan Stevens – Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs
• Radiohead – Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs
• The National – Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs
• Modest Mouse – Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs

Integrity Music controls publishing rights to some of the biggest bands/artists in Contemporary Christian music, including Hillsong United, Paul Baloche, Lincoln Brewster, and Israel Houghton. With this new licensing agreement in place, MXTabs.net is pleased to begin offering guitar, bass & drum tabs of your favorite songs by these artists, as well as all of the artists listed on the Integrity Music Artists Page.

We hope you enjoy these new additions to our tab database. As always, if you’re a fan of some of these Integrity artists/bands, then please consider helping your fellow musicians by submitting a song tab to MXTabs.net.

Cheers!

Without getting into the particulars, recently The Sheriff found himself in the undesirable position of having said something not-so-nice to somebody who probably did not deserve something not-so-nice thing said to them. I know, I know, shame on The Sheriff!

As soon as the words left my mouth I felt a twinge of regret, but as they say, you can’t undo what’s already been done. So I did the only thing you can do in such a situation: I manned up, said I was sorry, and asked for forgiveness. Although I still feel horrible for what I said, I take some comfort in knowing that all people slip up from time to time and say stupid things that they don’t actually mean.

Case in point? The large number of songs that have been written about being sorry and asking for/awarding forgiveness, just a few of which you will find guitar, bass & drum tabs for below.

Please feel free to suggest any songs you think fit today’s bill. If applicable, I’ll add it to the list. If you read this post and decide not to make a suggestion, then that’s ok too… The Sheriff forgives you.

Guitar, Bass & Drum Tab of Songs About Forgiveness

While we’d all love to give a brand new Gibson Les Paul or Martin D-42 to our guitar-wielding friends and family, the fact of the matter is that most of us simply don’t have the resources to do so.

That’s why MXTabs.net came up with the following Christmas Gift Ideas for Guitarists. These gift ideas are meant for beginner and advanced guitarists alike, and they’re guaranteed not to break the bank. Happy Holidays!

1. Guitar Tuner – Electronic tuners are a great gift for guitarists because they allow you to quickly & accurately tune your instrument. Additionally, they aid in ear training, a much sought after skill among musicians. We recommend the Boss TU-80 Guitar Tuner and Metronome.
2. Guitar Maintenance Kit – Keep your axe in top shape with the Dunlop System Guitar Maintenance Kit. It comes complete with guitar polish/polish cloths, guitar body wax, guitar string conditioner, and fingerboard cleaner/conditioner.
3. Guitar Stand – All guitarists should have a guitar stand. Not only do they allow for easy access to your axe, but they also let you proudly display your guitar for all to see. The Ultimate Support GS-100 Single Guitar Stand is a good option if you decide to go this route. It’s compact, extremely sturdy, and well-cushioned.
4. Guitar Chord Book – The Guitar Chord Encyclopedia illustrates how to play 36 different chords for each key. It also includes chapters on chord theory, chord construction, and the (in)famous Circle of Fifths. In short, this is an indispensable reference book for ALL guitarists.
5. Guitar Mousepad – Ok, so a mousepad isn’t directly related to playing the guitar, we know that. But it doesn’t mean the musician you’re buying for won’t enjoy one of these Guitar Mousepads from Zazzle.com. Our favorite: the Gibson Les Paul Electric Guitar Mousepad.