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HISTORY

TABCORE
THROUGH THE YEARS

2006

  1. MILESTONE

    YouTube channel created

    I joined YouTube on Feb 13, 2006, under my own name. This was not TabCore yet: that name came in January 2024. No covers yet.

    Moment

2009

  1. MILESTONE

    First guitar cover

    The first real guitar cover upload.

    Moment

  2. Potato cam cover era

    Between 2009 and 2012 I uploaded a bunch of early covers, filmed with gear that had absolutely no business being called cinematic.

    Moment

2013

  1. Back to regular uploads

    In 2013 I became more active again and started uploading more regularly.

    Moment

  2. MILESTONE

    First vocal scream cover

    The channel expanded beyond guitar covers. From here on, vocal and scream covers started showing up alongside guitar uploads.

    Moment

2015

  1. MILESTONE

    Last cover before hiatus

    On Sept 3, 2015, I uploaded what would be my last cover for a long time. After this, the channel went quiet.

    Moment

  2. YouTube hiatus

    A long break from uploading covers. The channel was still there, but the regular cover era was on pause.

    Moment

2019

  1. MILESTONE

    CKY // First CKY cover

    My first CKY cover on the channel. No tabs yet, but the CKY direction had officially started.

    Cover

  2. CKY // Shock and Terror

    The second CKY cover soon after. Still no tabs, but clearly part of the road toward what became TabCore.

    Cover

  3. Another quiet stretch

    After those first CKY covers, I disappeared from YouTube again for a bit before the next proper upload phase started.

    Moment

2020

  1. MILESTONE

    First Nikon Z6 plus Ninja V cover

    The first cover shot with the Nikon Z6 and Ninja V setup. The image quality jumped, the color grade still had some catching up to do.

    Moment

  2. Occasional cover uploads return

    From this point on, covers started appearing again here and there, slowly leading toward the modern TabCore format.

    Moment

  3. MILESTONE

    CKY // Flesh Into Gear

    The first CKY cover with tabs. This is where the modern TabCore format really begins.

    THE STORY BEHIND THIS COVER

    I'd wanted to cover this song for a long time. I'd been playing it for years, but almost every tab I found online was wrong. Pretty weird, considering Deron clearly explained how to play it on his instructional DVD and in a video on YouTube.

    I knew how to play it and just had this gut feeling that I should put the tabs on screen. Nothing fancy yet, as you can probably tell. Just a white background with tabs on it. Pretty different from my later covers haha.

    A few videos without tabs followed before I made my new version of Escape From Hellview, with tabs again. Eventually, TabCore became all about CKY and 96 Bitter Beings.

    I still want to cover other bands I'm a fan of too. It just hasn't happened yet. Hopefully sometime soon!

    Cover

  4. CKY // Frenetic Amnesic

    Cover

  5. I, the Breather // God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

    Cover

2021

  1. CKY // Inhuman Creation Station

    Cover

  2. CKY // The Way You Lived

    Cover

  3. CKY // Escape From Hellview

    Cover

  4. CKY // Familiar Realm

    Cover

  5. CKY // Sink Into The Underground

    Cover

  6. CKY // Shock And Terror

    Cover

2022

  1. CKY // Plastic Plan

    Cover

  2. CKY // Suddenly Tragic

    Cover

2023

  1. 96 Bitter Beings // Vaudeville's Revenge

    Cover

  2. CKY // Rio Bravo

    Cover

  3. CKY // Disengage the Simulator

    Cover

2024

  1. MILESTONE

    A new name: TabCore

    After years under my own name, I renamed the YouTube channel TabCore.

    Moment

  2. MILESTONE

    TabCore goes online

    tabcorecovers.com launched, with memberships following around two weeks later. TabCore gradually grew beyond the covers: memberships became a way to give something back to the people supporting the project. In-depth lessons on the songs I cover followed, along with series like Unraveling the Riffs.

    Moment

  3. 96 Bitter Beings // Wish Me Dead

    Cover

  4. CKY // Dressed In Decay

    Cover

  5. CKY // ...And She Never Returned

    Cover

  6. CKY // Deron Jam (without tabs)

    Cover

  7. CKY // Deron Jam

    Cover

  8. CKY // Sporadic Movement

    Cover

  9. CKY // A#1 Roller Rager

    Cover

  10. 96 Bitter Beings // Taken By Surprise

    Cover

2025

  1. CKY // All Power to Slaves

    Cover

  2. 10 CKY Riffs That Are Actually Harder Than They Sound

    Riff video

  3. CKY // The Boardwalk Body

    Cover

  4. CKY // Imaginary Threats

    Cover

  5. CKY // 96 Quite Bitter Beings

    Cover

  6. CKY // Woe Is Me

    Cover

  7. Vol. 1 Tier List

    Tier list

  8. MILESTONE

    Two Nikon ZRs. A new chapter.

    Around the Inhuman Creation Station cover, I added two Nikon ZR cameras to the setup. From here on, the covers are filmed in R3D RAW.

    Moment

  9. CKY // Inhuman Creation Station

    Cover

  10. Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild Tier List

    Tier list

  11. CKY // Testing

    Cover

2026

  1. 96 Bitter Beings // The Whipping Hands

    Cover

  2. 10 CKY Riffs That Are Actually Harder Than They Sound Part 2

    Riff video

  3. CKY // Sniped

    Cover

  4. 10 Deron Miller Riffs I Can't Stop Playing

    Riff video

  5. CKY // Knee Deep

    Cover

  6. CKY // Flesh Into Gear - 2026 cover

    Cover

  7. MILESTONE

    First lesson on YouTube

    TabCore lessons normally stay exclusive to the site. This Flesh Into Gear lesson became the first, and only, one I also released on YouTube.

    Lesson

  8. An Ånswer Can Be Found - Tier List

    Tier list

  9. CKY // As The Tables Turn

    Cover

  10. CKY // Old Carver's Bones

    Cover

TODAY // THE STORY CONTINUES

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