World’s First Free, Legal Music Tablature
Network Launches at MXTabs.net
Taylor Guitars Given Away Throughout Launch Period
MADISON, Wis. (Billboard Publicity Wire via Business Wire EON) July 1, 2008 --
The musicians’ fight for free, legal tablature
(a form of text-based music notation) has finally paid off. Today MXTabs.net
officially launched as the world’s first free,
legal tablature network, providing guitarists, bassists and drummers
with an online community in which to freely create tablature and share
their knowledge of how to play tens of thousands of songs.
The month of July is MXTabs launch month, starting with the premier of
the official, and newly redesigned MXTabs.net web site on July 1st.
MXTabs has also partnered with Taylor Guitars®
to give away four guitars
from the legendary company throughout the month, including two of their
new electric guitars. Additional prizes, including MXTabs t-shirts,
messenger bags and other branded merchandise will also be awarded.
Featuring licenses from Alfred Publishing, Sony/ATV, Universal MGB,
Domino Publishing, BUG Music and several thousand additional publishers,
MXTabs boasts a catalog of nearly 50,000 licensed, user-created
tablatures (tabs), with more being added daily. The tabs for the songs
are created and shared by the users of the site, with a focus on a free
and legal distribution of knowledge and information. Publishers and
songwriters are paid for their intellectual property through an
advertising revenue-share model.
All songwriters, whether they are part of a large global publisher or
simply an individual who has written a song can participate in MXTabs.
In what is a first for user-generated arrangements of
copyright-protected material, a full 50% of ad revenues is paid directly
to publishers, songwriters and copyright holders, while the community
receives free, unlimited access to the tablature on the site.
In addition to music tablature, MXTabs offers a fully-featured social
network community, including the ability for users to find and add
friends, participate in the MXTabs musician forums, post blogs and video
lessons, as well as show off photos of their music gear.
“The purpose of MXTabs is to allow musicians
to freely share their knowledge and to participate in a community with
other musicians,” said Bill Aicher, MXTabs’
project manager. “The rebirth of MXTabs was
done with the direct input of previous users of the site and what we’ve
built is directly based on what musicians have been asking us for.”
To participate, publishers and administrators are encouraged to visit
the site at www.mxtabs.net.
About MXTabs.net: MXTabs.net is the first legitimately licensed
online social community designed to provide musicians with access to
free guitar, bass and drum tablature, while also compensating music
publishers and songwriters through a share of advertising revenue.
Originally launched in 1999, MXTabs was one of the first, largest and
most popular destinations for freely available online tabs. In 2006 the
site voluntarily closed its doors due to issues of copyright, and the
assets have since been acquired by Musicnotes, Inc. It officially
re-launched on July 1, 2008.
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