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TAB should also give you information on use of capos etc.
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If this isn't given explicitly, assume normal tuning. TAB will tell you what tuning the piece is in. TAB will tell you where hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, slides, harmonics and vibrato are used. TAB will tell you what notes to play - it will tell you which string to hit and which fret to fret it at. Instead of using symbols like in standard musical notation, it uses ordinary ASCII characters and numbers, making it ideal for places like the internet where anybody with any computer can link up, copy a TAB file, and read it. TAB or tablature is a method of writing down music played on guitar or bass. Written by Howard update : 18th April 1995 THE GUIDE TO TAB NOTATION - HOW TO READ AND WRITE TAB There is more info on the history of below. They were initially hosted on .uk before moving to and then to. The earliest tabs here came from OLGA, the Online Guitar Archive, which closed following legal threats from the Harry Fox Agency. Tabs should be checked against the sheet music. Tabs with left-hand fingering (LHF) are usually ok. Online guides to standard musical terms can be found at Dolmetsch and Wikipedia. (Thanks to John Sherwood for this suggestion.) MAC users can Select and Copy the tab on the page, then paste it into a blank Word document with the font set to Courier using Paste Special - Unformatted Text. If you are using a text editor and the tabs look strange, try using a word processor with the font set to Courier (or another non-proportional font). The line endings of tabs on are currently in Windows format (so that they are readable in Notebook). Viewing and Editing Tabs - Tabs are best viewed using your browser. A more recent version may be available on the newsgroup .tablature.Īppended are samples of many different tablature explanations taken from tab files. The Guide To Tab Notation below, written in 1995 by Howard Wright, has been slightly amended for this html version. How to read and write Tab back to the classical guitar tablature home page