Drum/Guitar Tabs In Rockband Style
I had a pretty productive Saturday.
After some tweaking this late afternoon I have it about 99% done..
All that is left is to add a leader into the songs (so it doesn’t start right away). You can get any TAB off the internet and sync it up with your mp3 file for the song. And tada… now you can use your elite rockband skills to play the real thing.
You have to manually edit the actual start and end seconds for the tabs [and fix the tabs since alot of them arent perfect matches for the CD version of the songs] — This is why on some songs there is a noticeable offset
This took me about a day to write (mostly Saturday), and then a late afternoon to find and edit the tab files so that it would read them.
I started with 21 Guns by Greenday as I debugged the program. Parts of the Tabs are perfect, but alot of them need quite a bit of manual editing. (I think the tabs were from the music video and not the CD)
Then I Did Red Hot Chili Peppers (Under the bridge) Mostly because my wife really wants to learn to play it.
Then I was thinking… well she actually wants to play it on guitar… 15 minutes later (with no editing of the source code, just the data/tab file {thats very cool if u know anything about coding 
}) – she can now use her elite rockband 2 skills to play the guitar… or at least practice till she can play it [I took out some of the fancy stuff in the tab till she gets the basics down]
And finally I did Weezer – Buddy Holly. It syncs up perfectly.
I’ve also done Lenny Kravitz… but the drum tabs I found were off quite..
Long story short… you can pick just about any song and from 15 minutes to an hour (depends on the quality of the tab file) have a tweaked tab file ready to play and practice rockband style.
