Every March and April, students worldwide are rewarded a week long recess from studying, known variously as Study Week, Reading Week, or Spring Break. Traditionally, many students travel to warm, sunny destinations like Panama City Beach, Florida to… well, party! Others, whom maybe aren’t into “that scene” stick closer to home, enjoy their time off, and… well, they party too!

Regardless of where you spend your Spring Break, there are certain songs that seem to provide a perfect soundtrack to Spring Break revelry. The following Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs of Spring Break Party Songs represent 15 such songs. Check ‘em out. And remember: party hard, but party safe!

Feel free to suggest a good Spring Break song. If MXTabs.net has rights to display it, I’ll add it to the list. Also, if you’ve tabbed any of the above songs, please consider submitting it to MXTabs.net.

Musical keys on the guitar are a topic that is often over complicated. They appear difficult so many beginners avoid learning them at all. In this article I want to explain how you can find the right chords that fit together in a given key using a little known method known as one, four, five. After reading this article and watching the example you’ll be ready to start figuring out keys on your own and a whole new world will open up to you on the guitar neck.

Musical Keys

The actual definition of a musical key is rather in depth. If a piece of music is in the Key of A then this states that it harmonically centred on the note A and makes use of those notes in the A major scale. Does it make use of all the notes? Maybe, but probably not. So what notes or chords should you be playing in the key of A major? That’s what we want to find out.

Choosing what chords to play

There’s an easy way to find out what chords you should be playing in each key. It starts by looking at the given scale for the key you want to play in. We’ll continue with the example from above in the key of A major. The pattern we’re going to use is known  as I-IV-V or one-four-five. This takes the first, fourth and fifth notes from a given scale and combines them in a progression which sounds nice together. This same pattern shows up a  lot in popular music and songs. Following our A major example let’s look at the A major scale: A B C# D E F# G# A

The first note is the A, the root note will always be the first note. Next we look to the four which is a D and the five which is an E. So the A chord, D chord and E chord will work really well together in the key of A.

Take a few minutes to watch the video below that goes along with this article. It will provide further explanation and another example to help you understand.

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Among the 80,000+ tabs available on MXTabs.net are numerous scales, exercises and original riffs, written by our members to assist their fellow musicians in becoming better performers. Until recently, however, many of these “educational tabs” were lost in the deep, dark recesses of our site, not easy to find in search and certainly not collected in one place. Well, lucky for you, that is no longer the case!

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!

Seeing as Saint Patrick’s Day is just right around the corner – Wednesday, March 17th to be exact – today we thought we’d highlight a few of the many great Guitar, Bass & Drum Tabs of Irish Bands and Artists that are available from MXTabs.net.

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

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