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Lonlonjp Thread of Golden Locks

ahhnomoretabs

Joined: Feb 05 2012

Help! Where are the tabs?

Lonlon doesn't want tabs of his arrangements on GameTabs. He's selling them.

Okay, where do I buy them?

http://www.dojinongaku.com/contents/group_profile.php?grid=1064

But how do I buy them?? It's in Japanese!!

You need a credit card. Here's how you do it:

  1. Find the tab you want.
  2. Click カートに入れる (add to cart)
  3. Two choices. Bottom one is for users without a Dojin Ongaku account. So, enter your email address in both blanks of the bottom half.
  4. Click the green button that says 確認画面に進む (proceed to confirmation screen)
  5. Confirm the amount and price (in Yen), and click レジに進む (proceed to register--like a cash register)
  6. Click クレジット (credit card). It's the third option in the top row.
  7. Enter your card number (without hyphens) and expiration date (month, year).

You'll get a link to a PDF to download. Have fun!

Did lonlonjp request that the tabs be taken down?

When lonlonjp first began selling his tabs, he requested that specific tabs be taken down and Gametabs complied. However, his wording was ambiguous concerning all the other tabs based on his arrangements. Recently, the situation was reevaluated and it was decided to remove all lonlonjp tabs.

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Lonlonjp doesn't want his

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

Lonlonjp doesn't want his tabs on here, sorry :-( I know everyone worked really hard on them, but those are his wishes, so we've got to respect them.

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Auriplane!!

I noticed the chilly mountain

Lemoncobbler

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

I noticed the chilly mountain from SM64 tab is gone.
oh lonlon, why...

I thought it would have been

Colin_spade

Dami

Joined: Feb 12 2009

I thought it would have been because he uploaded his own pdf file to download. :3 but yes. If its his wish to have the tabs down, lets respect. He put alot of work into them. :3
at least he ain't keepin his talent under closed doors. ;p

You guys can buy the tabs he

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

You guys can buy the tabs he has for sale at DojinOngaku:

http://www.dojinongaku.com/contents/group_profile.php?grid=1064

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Auriplane!!

To quote lolonjp,by

StrangeJam

Da Manliness

Joined: Aug 23 2009

To quote lolonjp,
by hosting,playing and tabbing his arranges without paying him for music he didn't compose, we're choking the music industry!.
have a nice life.

Don't touch my Gold saucer

kanshiketsu89

Anime Clef

Joined: Aug 13 2010

Don't touch my Gold saucer and Super Mario 3!!! :D Hehe, I don't really care. I can tab almost anything by now. I could be an ass and say that it's ok cuz "you don't deserve to play a piece if you can't even tab it yourself" but hey, music is all about having fun. You hear that lonlon?? Just fun! God dammit, not even music tabs get spared nowadays...

Re: To quote lolonjp,by

greatest90

Joined: Feb 05 2012

this doesn't even make sensse. how can paying him for music he didn't compose help save the music industry.

he's like a fansubber charging for a fansubbed anime and we here are more fansubbers fansubbing his fansubs. it makes sense if he is asking for donation, but asking for payment is quite outrageous.

To be honest in Japan giving

Bhael

Location: Newcastle, UK

Joined: Feb 18 2010

To be honest in Japan giving away tabs of things is, according to lonlonjp, equivilant to giving away the sheet music; which would obviously be illegal. I wouldn't be surprised if every single Japanese music in existence had sheet music for sale, so you can see how giving away sheet music for even a game would be frivolous.

As for his whole 'saving the music industry argument', I find it quite ridiculous. Illegal (?) distribution of music is just a natural course of capitalism, and to think you can stop it through some 1+1=2 argument and sense of moral justice is pretty silly. That being said, I doubt he himself believes half the things he says on this matter. It is, afterall, in his commercial and perhaps legal interest to encourage people to buy his tabs.

If the website operates how I think it does, it's pretty clever. Put up your tabs and, for the purpose of transactions via the site, buy the rights to the music they come from with a % of profit made from it. Ingenious!

Did anyone... have a backup

crimsondarkn

Location: Toronto, Canada

Joined: Jul 24 2009

Did anyone... have a backup of all the lonlonjp tabs...?

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Re: Lonlonjp doesn't want his

wayfaerer

"Embrace your dreams."

Location: The Lifestream

Joined: Apr 03 2011

auriplane said

Lonlonjp doesn't want his tabs on here, sorry :-( I know everyone worked really hard on them, but those are his wishes, so we've got to respect them.

are they all being taken down?

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Past tense

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

Past tense

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Auriplane!!

I remember Nate's epic chat

StrangeJam

Da Manliness

Joined: Aug 23 2009

I remember Nate's epic chat with lonlonJP

Nate:Join us lonlon! I'm sure it will be fun! many of our users are fans of yours!
lonlonjp: No Nate...I will not join your gametabs.

Re: I remember Nate's epic chat

Lemoncobbler

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Location: SoCal

Joined: Dec 22 2010

lonlon said

I will not join your gametabs.

ahahaha oh god why do I find this so funny....?

it really is, that's why I

StrangeJam

Da Manliness

Joined: Aug 23 2009

it really is, that's why I never forgot how he phrased it lol, NATE POST THE MESSAGE YOU GOT lawl.

I actually stopped supporting

Giogiogio4

For all the dreamers: Our planet's dream is not over yet...

Joined: Jun 10 2010

I actually stopped supporting him because of that.

He didn't write the music, So even if he arranges it he himself does not own the rights to it.
That's like him Subbing an Anime he downloaded. He didn't pay for the movie but is somehow making money off the original file by altering it. I mean seriously, if a Player here Tabbed one of his arrangements out then all they would have to do is change a few notes and BOOM it isn't "Lonlons" anymore and it follows the same concept he is trying to pull. Honestly his entire Youtube should get shut down because he is selling sheets to other peoples music.

This is just like the Metalocolypse Bullshit. They got all the Tabs on the net taken down from Dethklok and then released tab books to sell. How the fuck is a tab book suppose to help me compared to GP, Cant fucking Hear pages.

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Re: I actually stopped supporting

greatest90

Joined: Feb 05 2012

haha gio, anime fans think alike, check out my post above.

Re: I actually stopped supporting

bastito

Joined: Feb 05 2012

Giogiogio4 said

I actually stopped supporting him because of that.

He didn't write the music, So even if he arranges it he himself does not own the rights to it.
That's like him Subbing an Anime he downloaded. He didn't pay for the movie but is somehow making money off the original file by altering it. I mean seriously, if a Player here Tabbed one of his arrangements out then all they would have to do is change a few notes and BOOM it isn't "Lonlons" anymore and it follows the same concept he is trying to pull. Honestly his entire Youtube should get shut down because he is selling sheets to other peoples music.

This is just like the Metalocolypse Bullshit. They got all the Tabs on the net taken down from Dethklok and then released tab books to sell. How the fuck is a tab book suppose to help me compared to GP, Cant fucking Hear pages.

x2 lonlonjp broke my heart.

Re: I actually stopped supporting

Giogiogio4

For all the dreamers: Our planet's dream is not over yet...

Joined: Jun 10 2010

greatest90 said

haha gio, anime fans think alike, check out my post above.

Lol, first thing that popped into my head.

I swear if I still had all his tabs and the patience i would make a website and host them there just to piss him off.

I need to start working on that flash logo again lol.

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Re: I actually stopped supporting

zen03y

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Joined: Jun 20 2009

Giogiogio4 said

How the fuck is a tab book suppose to help me compared to GP, Cant fucking Hear pages.

...What? Do you not have the music in your iPod? Lol I can understand to a degree though haha

Re: I actually stopped supporting

Giogiogio4

For all the dreamers: Our planet's dream is not over yet...

Joined: Jun 10 2010

zen03y said

Giogiogio4 said

How the fuck is a tab book suppose to help me compared to GP, Cant fucking Hear pages.

...What? Do you not have the music in your iPod? Lol I can understand to a degree though haha

I dont read the tabs, i just tend to look at the scale shapes on the Guitar pro and learn it by ear. It clicks much faster to me. Plus tab books I have to short through each guitar part then figure out what measure I want to learn and all that lame stuff.
Much harder to make a backing track from a page in a book. No drums in it either.

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Re: I actually stopped supporting

wayfaerer

"Embrace your dreams."

Location: The Lifestream

Joined: Apr 03 2011

Giogiogio4 said

I need to start working on that flash logo again lol.

yes. yes you do, geodude

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"i seem to be find a lot that apparently dont contain the .exe actually" -Anonymous

"Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to look more like?" -Pherioxus

Wow, good for you Lonlonjp,

Choogly

Joined: Jul 01 2010

Wow, good for you Lonlonjp, you've successfully ensured that only a select few will be able to enjoy your arrangements. It's just god damn greedy, not to mention pointless.

It's business.

kage25130

Joined: Aug 02 2011

It's business.

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Re: It's business.

Bhael

Location: Newcastle, UK

Joined: Feb 18 2010

kage25130 said

It's business.

Yes.

Strange do you have that conversation saved on your computer? It sounds hilarious.

I like the lonlonjp concept,

Hakoria

Laon King

Location: gmt+1

Joined: Apr 03 2011

I like the lonlonjp concept, he plays the part of the necessary evil which strengthens the bonds between the users of this community. He's actually martyring himself for us, how sage and beautiful ;A;

jk, you don't apply this logic to people who make money doing this. He does fit the necessary evil role though just like a good part of the media industry which messes up its priorities (putting money first, lulz classic).

+1 for nate/lon convo. I don't remember if I saw it on IRC sometime last year.

Because I haven't religiously

trunksooo

Joined: Feb 06 2012

Because I haven't religiously bought every Final Fantasy game since I was 10 years old.
Because I didn't buy Castlevania Symphony of the Night 3 times in my life as discs kept failing me.
Because I've never bought anything to do with some cat named Mario.
Because copyrights are always fairly developed and fairly applied, amirite?
Because every single second that goes by while I somberly play a melody from my childhood, which happens to be a tab of an arrangement by Lonlonjp, I am reaching right into Uematsu's pocket and saying, **** YOU!"

The idea that these people need more of my money, when money from my generation put these people on the map, just so I can play an arrangement done by some amateur on the Youtube, is frankly appalling.

Lonlonjp, what a disappointment! He and his crusade can go... well, you know. /unsubscribe.

To the original poster, If

trunksooo

Joined: Feb 06 2012

To the original poster,

If you haven't already, go to The Wayback Machine, a website archive, and put in the old address of the megathread, which I believe is http://www.gametabs.net/forum/topic/6405, and there's an archive from 2010. Unfortunately the Kingdom Hearts, FFVII's Great Warrior, and most of the Zelda songs aren't there. But many are!

Re: You guys can buy the tabs he

ahhnomoretabs

Joined: Feb 05 2012

@auriplane, do you know of an english site where we can buy his tabs? I don't know japanese, or if there is a way to translate that site in English that would be great.

There is no such site, and he

StrangeJam

Da Manliness

Joined: Aug 23 2009

There is no such site, and he only accepts payments through japanese equivalents of our paypal, unless he changed that policy already.

If you click クレジット, you can

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

If you click クレジット, you can use a credit card. He said he can't accept PayPal yet, I think.

1. Find the tab you want.
2. Click カートに入れる (add to cart)
3. Two choices. Bottom one is for users without a Dojin Ongaku account. So, enter your email address in both blanks of the bottom half.
4. Click the green button that says 確認画面に進む (proceed to confirmation screen)
5. Confirm the amount and price (in Yen), and click レジに進む (proceed to register--like a cash register)
6. Click クレジット (credit card). It's the third option in the top row.
7. Enter your card number (without hyphens) and expiration date (month, year).

I don't know what happens after that, because I'm not buying one. :-)

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Auriplane!!

i remember reading some time

exilehunter

Joined: Nov 27 2009

i remember reading some time ago that his arrangements that are sold at dojinongaku pay proceeds to their original creators (mainly registered japanese ones). hence why some of his other works arent listed at the site (and should still be free to tab and distribute) due to inability to link proceeds to the appropriate owner.

i could be wrong though :/

as for backups >.> i may have...

I'm posting this for a new

natenmn

I haven't had a chance to trim my hedges recently. Thanks for visiting anyway...

Location: United States

Joined: Jul 17 2009

I'm posting this for a new page:

Quote from myself

Content of this quote no longer applies, so I changed it.

Oh yeah, and I was using one of my trash email accounts. If anyone got an email with a weird name attached to it, that's why.

Oh yeah. i just remembered.

zen03y

CATFOOD

Location: Lynn, MA

Joined: Jun 20 2009

Oh yeah. i just remembered. There are SO many guitarists who do the exact same thing >_<

EDIT: on youtube

His arrangements became kinda

Ennea

humhum..

Location: Germany

Joined: Apr 09 2010

His arrangements became kinda boring after this whole tabsale-stuff started. Nothing like Time's Scar or Blue Bird anymore :/

Saved all of the available tabs though :>

However, japanese are kinda known for their strong wish to always stay on the save side. Lonlon became scared that he might do something unrightful (EVIL!). It's not for the fans of VGM and guitar anymore, it's for the companies wellfare - which is disappointing

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+1 for Lonlon - Nate conversation! :D

Re: If you click クレジット, you can

ahhnomoretabs

Joined: Feb 05 2012

@auriplane, Thanks. You get an email after purchase with a link to PDF download, they sound really good

Cool, if it worked, do you

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

Cool, if it worked, do you mind if I edit your first post with the link + instructions? Then people who click "lonlonjp" on Gametabs will see that right away.

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Auriplane!!

sure

ahhnomoretabs

Joined: Feb 05 2012

sure

Re: His arrangements became kinda

natenmn

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Ennea said

Lonlon became scared that he might do something unrightful (EVIL!).

The irony of this situation is that to stay on the legal side, lonlon now releases his tabs under JASRAC who, in the past, has been charged with violating anti-monopolization laws. They have also had the Japanese FTC on their asses for a while.

In his attempt to do the right thing, he has associated himself with a shady organization that cares little of the creative freedom of the music industry or about the individuals comprising it. The only thing that JASRAC is interested in is turning a buck.

Let's turn this into a lonlon

StrangeJam

Da Manliness

Joined: Aug 23 2009

Let's turn this into a lonlon quote thread.

lonlonjp:
" Gametabs have offended many copyright regulations without prior consent from the original composers and arrangers including myself. i do understand that they love these songs so much, unfortunately however, what they are doing is choking music industry to die. i do not belong to any music company, but my friend musicians are getting tougher and tougher by these kinds of websites. "


"Then the original composer/arranger such as myself will lost his/her oppotunity to sell his/her tabs. If you can get someone's arrangement for free, how you dare to pay the original composer? Those who post the tabs for free are robbing the oppotunity of the original composer to sell it by him/herself. Therefore I chose to sell my arrangements of other composers and share the contribution among original copyright holders. All of my own composition are free, but I will not post other musicians works for free."

Well actually. it is interesting to know one can profit like this. lol

"It is illegal to upload

Ennea

humhum..

Location: Germany

Joined: Apr 09 2010

"It is illegal to upload someone's music sheet without the original copyright holders consent, at least here in Japan. To share my tabs officially with many people, I am paying fee to original copyright holders. If we do not pay them, they cannot live on music. Please note that "my original songs" guitar tabs are all free because they are my own product and I am a sole copyright holder."

I'm glad that Uematsu can enjoy a proper meal because of these purchases!

_____

As a note, my serious opinion here: I can kinda understand what he wants to archieve. But his thoughts are just too focused on money - or rather he assumes his opinion = composers opinion. I can't imagine Mitsura, Shimomura, Soule and whatnot would get mad at people playing and enjoying their music - in fact I believe they would WANT the people to enjoy it to their fullest. Only the companies do want to make a coin (as what I said before), therefore he's just too narrow-minded. But thats nothing you all haven't already stated °_°"

Re: Let's turn this into a lonlon

Giogiogio4

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Joined: Jun 10 2010

StrangeJam said

Let's turn this into a lonlon quote thread.

lonlonjp:
"
Gametabs have offended many copyright regulations without prior consent from the original composers and arrangers including myself. i do understand that they love these songs so much, unfortunately however, what they are doing is choking music industry to die. i do not belong to any music company, but my friend musicians are getting tougher and tougher by these kinds of websites. "

Thanks lonlonjp, for teaching us all we can profit from music we didn't compose by playing it in a solo instrument. :V

then maybe all those "Composers" should take the god damn time to make Guitar arrangement's for every god damn song they wrote 10+ years ago from every video game and include it into a GP format. Seriously is he Retarded? look at 911 Tabs, there's well over 500k tabs there, all fan made. if anything this actually Advertises the music since the creators have done NOTHING to keep the music alive.

Sorry but 40 bucks for the Chrono Trigger OST is BS. Im not paying 40 bucks for a bunch of Midi files. The entire game cost less then that. And the CD is how old now? I have yet to see anything ever done new to it. lets not forget how Hard sheet music books are to get because square just decides to stop making a bunch of them years at a time, or Never bothers to Translate them.

* The only ones killing the industry is Square and the gaming companies. Look how famous Chrono trigger/Cross , FFIX , FFXs, KH soundtracks are. Then look at the OST for FF13. it fucking Blows. It's already common knowledge that we love the Good music, so they up and out put crappy songs in the games? NIER was a need breath of fresh air after soo many years without good music.

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I support the lonlon quote

Bhael

Location: Newcastle, UK

Joined: Feb 18 2010

I support the lonlon quote thread proposal! Nate do you have that conversation you had with lonlonjp stored anywhere per chance. It sounds amusing :D.

Here's one of my favourites, in response to a plea for free tabs: "If I do it according to your advice, my account would be removed shortly. I do not think it is a more peace in all of us. I would like to be here with many friends. That's my intial answer to your request. I respect many great musicians. How they can live with free music?"

What a guy. Apparently giving successful composers a bit more money is more important than spreading their music.

Umm, I think people should

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

Umm, I think people should buy game soundtracks and arrangement books to support composers. I don't think there's any reason not to make fan works too...

Nobuo likes fan stuff ^-^

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Auriplane!!

You're welcome guys lol

SalemJeanette

Save Your Tears.

Location: Popular Land.

Joined: Jul 03 2009

You're welcome guys

xxxxxx> lol salem
xxxxxx> the actual quote was this:
xxxxxx> Hello! xxxxxx, my friend I will not be joining your Gametabs. My good friend Salemjeanetteful has been informed me of the piracy Gametabs has done to my hard work of arrangements. Now I have license from JASRAC I cannot condone my tabs on piracy websites like Gametabs. Please do not contact me for further. Regards lonlonjp

MOD EDIT: This was a joke and it is NOT a real quote. See two posts down.

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Little J.

Haha, Salem got trolled.

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

Haha, Salem got trolled.

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Auriplane!!

The above was a joke to scare

natenmn

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The above was a joke to scare Salem into thinking that he was going to get banned lol. I told everyone who saw it that it was a joke shortly afterwards, but I guess they forgot since it was like 6 months ago.

Lonlonjp was always very nice in all dealings he had with me. I edited my name out of Salem's post since it wasn't real and I don't want to be associated with that XD.

but i already got banned

SalemJenet

Joined: Sep 22 2011

but i already got banned twice D:
I also joke posted, never informed lonlon about anything :>
(maybe!)
Nate stop ruining the fun :<

Lmao wow, He dosnt own any

IKilledThePromQueen

Joined: Jan 20 2012

Lmao wow, He dosnt own any copywrite towards this music and all the tabs were removed. Good job people

I really don't understand why

Joaosenpai

Joined: May 04 2010

I really don't understand why the tabs are being removed from the site.
Lonlonjp doesn't own any copyrights of his arrangements.

He used the work of other composers with copyrights to make it.
And it's not like the tabs on this site were stolen from him. It was made based on his arrangements, by people with skill and much effort.

As the tabbers based their tabs on his arrangements, he based his arrangements in music with copyrights, and he is even selling it, which is illegal.

The only thing that was wrong in this site, was naming the tabs with his name. I think the tabs should be replaced and organized by game or anime like all the other tabs, and not in a Thread with his name.

And by the way, I don't think he even arranged all those musics. I own an official Final Fantasy book of tabs, and most of the tabs there are exactly the same of his arrangements. For example, Melodies of Life is 100% the same.

Re: I really don't understand why

Shikijo

Joined: Feb 07 2012

"It is illegal to upload someone's music sheet without the original copyright holders consent, at least here in Japan. To share my tabs officially with many people, I am paying fee to original copyright holders. If we do not pay them, they cannot live on music. Please note that "my original songs" guitar tabs are all free because they are my own product and I am a sole copyright holder."

-lonlonjp

From what I could gather, lonlon actually pays fees for some of the arrangements he tabs out. If so, it is completely understandable as to why he would want the ones posted here to be removed.