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I’ve seen this one mentioned before for guitar tabs : https://tabarchive.mikethetech.com/

Edit: has been pointed out that they had to disable downloading for legal reasons. Bummer. Way back machine has some of the data archived (may 2022 has some which can be downloaded, but others are dec 2022 or newer which are archived)

Edit2: found a better archive I think. don’t know if my linking it will draw more attention and we lose it. I downloaded a copy just in case and removed the link. Instead I’ll link where I got it from: https://filepursuit.com/ search for mikethetech

Such fucking bullshit tabs are policed and paywalled now. It was a free for all 20 years ago and it made bigger fans out of the people consuming that content.

In case you didn't know: Ultimate Guitar only makes it look as you could only print/download the PDF with the subscription. Scroll down to the end of the tab/chords and there's a small print button.

Of course, you still can't get the official stuff, but in my experience there's always one that sounds very close to the original.

Back in m guitar days I used https://www.911tabs.com/ And https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/

The last seem to try to force into member ship now, but the first still looks to be free and some years ago most things were printable

search some popular torrent sites for "guitar sheet music" or "guitar books".

IIRC, they used to have a bunch.

tabplayer.online clunky to use but they offer downloads in many formats. i only use it for guitar but a lot of the guitar pro files have tracks for all instruments.

I have around 1.5 Gb tabs in guitar pro format, downloaded from russian torrent tracker rutracker.org

IReal pro is an excellent app, there's a built in forum for getting user uploads for the chord backing track of most any song. It's mainly centered around jazz but there's pop standards as well.

There's a UI element you can press that lets you represent the chords in guitar tabs or as sheet music in a karaoke like display.

It's certainly no replacement for playing with other musicians, but it is extremely useful for practicing