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From 2016 to 2018 Yousician included a powerful set of tools for adding custom songs to their platform. Users could create their own content with the in-app Song Creator, import tabs from Guitar Pro files, and even generate transcriptions directly from audio files and YouTube videos. These features were so compelling that even today it's common to see users looking for a way to restore this functionality to the Yousician platform by installing an older version of the app. That's not possible - and would be inadvisable even it it worked - but there are a number of modern alternatives that approximate those capabilities.

It took nearly a full year to grow FATpick's song catalog from the app's first launch to the 500th shared song. It only took 128 days for users to share the next 500 songs with the rest of the FATpick community. On the occasion of the 1,000th song shared, let's pause to take a look at the growth in and current state of the song library.

Have you ever wished you could play songs from your FATpick library when offline or away from your computer? Now you can. Print or export the full tablature for any song in FATpick using the Print Tab option on the main tab view/gameplay screen.

FATpick users have been getting into the holiday spirit, importing a number of Christmas-themed tabs, both classic and contemporary, in recent weeks. Here are 5 of the most recently shared Christmas songs with links to the full guitar and bass tablature for each.

The 10 songs most often played in FATpick for October 2021, with complete guitar tabs for each song.

10 most played songs in FATpick for September 2021, with full tabs for all tracks.

FATpick users have added more than 500 songs - nearly 2,300 playable tabs - to the shared song catalog. Here are some charts and aggregated statistics about the songs in the shared library.

Ed Sheeran and Arctic Monkeys hang on to their spots in the top 10, but 80% of the chart is new this month, featuring songs by Dire Straits, The Beatles, The White Stripes, Eric Clapton, Phish, and others.

The Arctic Monkeys, Daft Punk and Bob Marley are all back with a vengeance after dropping off the chart for a couple of months, but they couldn't hold back newly added songs from Bôa and Ed Sheeran.

When you put enough guitarists together, classic rock and heavy metal are always well represented. The FATpick chart is no exception: Pink Floyd earned two spots in the top 10 this month; the Swedish power metal act HammerFall made a strong second-place showing; and familiar faces like AC/DC and System of a Down also ranked in the top 10. But it's a pretty eclectic list overall: from America's 1970s folk-rock anthem “Horse With No Name” at the top of the chart to 90s alt-rock staples like Cake and Beck to traditional country songs from the 1930s. There's even a track from the soundtrack to the surrealist rom-com movie Amélie. It's Forrest's box of chocolates in here. You never know what you're going to get.

The Eagles' Hotel California was the most played song in FATpick for May 2021. Other popular songs included Armata by Powerwolf, Beethoven's Für Elise, I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash and Do I Wanna Know by the Arctic Monkeys.

Six dependable sources for high-quality GuitarPro tabs that you can import into FATpick and other music-processing software.