Good news is: these tops and last tabs blocks are back on the homepage ! To do so we had to modify our homepage again, but we didn’t remove anything this time… hope you like it!

As you may have noticed, we also re-designed and deplaced our nav bar, it’s now close to the main content area, nicer (with cool effects), and of course it’s working like a charm (there were small issues with sublevels on the previous one).

Next step: V3…

If you still have troubles logging in after requesting a new pass, just reply to the email sent to you so we can check what went wrong.

Thank you!

This time, winners will be randomly selected among the members that submitted at least 10 tabs (during the month).

Enjoy!

We offer a “Kula Koa Soprano I”, all made of Solid Koa, worth $1128 ! This is aNueNue’s high end line uke, made in Japan.

How to win ? Submit uke tabs ! Member with the most approved tabs will win. If two (or more) members are tied at the end of the contest, contest will continue for 3 extra days (=72hours).

Contest starts now (4/12/2012, 6PM GMT), and ends on 6/1/2013 at 11PM GMT (online 33 days).

Rules :

• Member with the most approved tabs (pending tabs don’t count) will win
• You must be 18 years old to participate
• Winner must supply Ukulele-Tabs.com with his/her legal name, mailing address, birth date and telephone number.
• Any potential winner who cannot be contacted within five business days of attempted first notification (by email) will forfeit his/her prize. (An alternate winner will be selected)
• Winner may have to pay custom duties and taxes upon receiving the prize. (Winner is responsible for these taxes).

Additional infos :

• We will check every tabs submitted by a possible winner,
• We reserve the right to reject any approved tab,
• Cheaters’ accounts will be locked until the end of the contest,

Good luck !

• AutoSuggest (to avoid duplicated entries): if you try add a new artist, you will now get a list of artists already available in database.
• New artist confirmation : if your want to add a new artist with a name too similar to an existing one, you will have to validate your choice (same reason as above)
• Tab Preview : see how your score will look like once online before publishing it on UT! Because some tabs don’t show up as expected once re-formatted on the fly by our script… “Preview result” link available below the texarea where you paste your tab. (refresh the preview as many times as you want, you won’t lose your tab, it’s AJAX powered)
• Chords finder : there’s no need to list the chords played in a song anymore, UT will find them for you !
• Difficulty (for 100% tabs) : new option to define the level of difficulty of a tab. As we can’t automatically define this parameter, you’ll have to set it manually.
• Tab saved if an error occurs : you won’t lose your tab if something goes wrong (required field missing, etc.),

Thanks for submitting tabs !

Unlinke most guitar tab websites, where the level of difficulty of a tab is selected by its author, we decided to follow a different approach, based on logic. It’s complicated to be objective when selecting a level of difficulty for a tab, because it mainly depends on your skills. A a tab easy for someone can be difficult for someone else, and in the end such a “human” information is not precise enough.

That’s why we created a script that automatically defines the level of difficulty (only works on “100% chords” scores) based on chords found in the tabs. Such a solution is also more flexible, as we can adjust the parameters of our algorythm if we need to.
Difficulty scale matches the 5 existing levels (absolute beginner, beginner, intermediate, confirmed, professional player) but we decided to limit the levels to 3 categories for now (beginner, intermediate, confirmed).

This information is available on tabs (left sidebar), and you can click on the corresponding icon to get a list of the most viewed tabs for this level. Direct access to most viewed tabs by level is also possible from the “tab” menu.

Change song key / transpose chords

Want to change the key of a tab to make it more comfortable to sing/play, or just for a personal tone preference? You will love our new key transposer ! Transposing a song to a new key has never been so easy, you don’t even have to understand music theory !

How does it work? It’s pretty simple : determine the number of half steps up/down you want between the original key and the desired key (ie. If you want transpose chords from C to E, the difference to select is +4 half steps), select the corresponding value in the “Change key” dropdown menu (available on the tab, below the chord diagrams)… and you’re done !

Not only chords will change above the Xed lyrics, but the chord list at the top of the tab will also be refreshed. Obviously, it also works for Baritone chords.

Unfortunately you’re not able to print the result using our printer-friendly option yet, but it will come soon.

Chord highlighter

To make your reading easier, we now highlight all the chords found on tab pages. There is one tooltip per chord name, showing the corresponding chord diagram on mouse over a chord name. But that’s not all, it’s even possible to see how to play a chord (photos from Ukulele Chords, thanks to the API we developped for them) if you click on it (link opens in a lightbox)! Cool right ?

Song keys

We also added an important additional information on tabs : the song key! As usual, it’s all about music theory, and we only show this information if we’re 100% sure that it’s the correct key.

Enjoy our cool new exclusive features !

nb. Still more great stuff to come…

Prize : aNueNue World Series Eagle Sorpano (value $148 USD)

How to win ? Submit a uke lesson (or more, to increase your chances of winning), winner will be the member with the most average views* per day (based upon the total of all your lessons if you add more than one lesson). Of course, participants will be members who add a new lesson between today (8 oct. 2012) and the end of the contest (8 nov. 2012) !

To make it simple, let’s say you submit 2 lessons :
- First lesson is online for 5 days, and gets 500 hits
- Second lesson is online for 10 days and gets 80 hits

Your score will be : (500/5) + (80/10) = 108.

Good luck !!

*unique views. (100 views from the same visitor = 1 view).

nb. For any question, please visit this thread.

This new functionnality comes with a another improvement to make your search even easier : a search by album names. To keep it simple, we’ve created a little more than 5000 new pages (one per album), loaded with all the informations you may need : release date, duration, label and cover (powered by Last.fm).

Please note that some albums don’t have a correct release date yet, and that many tabs are linked to greatest hits albums instead of the one they were originally published on. As you can imagine it wil take some time before we clean this part of the database. As for the countries, we may ask for your help, we don’t know yet.

We also added a few widgets to the existing pages, like a Top albums block on our artist pages, etc.

In short, start from today you can browse our archive by year and/or search for an album name. Enjoy another cool and exclusive feature on your favorite uke tab site !