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Hi, this my help to those guys who canґt read a tab. Itґs very simple.Hereґs a list of the context.This is made by Fede Santelmo CONTENTS - Part I------------------1.0 What is TAB 1.1 What TAB will tell you1.2 What TAB won`t tell you.Reading Tab :--------------2.0 TAB notation - The Basics2.1 Other symbols used in TAB2.2 Hammer ons and pull offs2.3 Bends2.4 Slides2.5 Note length information----------------------------------------------------------------------------******************************** 1.0 WHAT IS TAB ********************************TAB or tablature is a method of writing down music played on guitar or bass.Instead of using symbols like in standard musical notation, it uses ordinaryASCII characters and numbers, making it ideal for places like the internetwhere anybody with any computer can link up, copy a TAB file, and read it.******************************************* 1.1 WHAT TAB WILL TELL YOU *******************************************TAB will tell you what notes to play - it will tell you which string to hitand which fret to fret it at.TAB will tell you where hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, slides, harmonics andvibrato are used.TAB will tell you what tuning the piece is in. If this isn`t givenexplicitly, assume normal tuning. TAB should also give you informationon use of capos etc.TAB will give you an indication of the ryhthm of the piece - i.e it will tellyou which are the long notes and which are the short notes.However it will not tell you exactly how long or how short they are.This leads me on to ...********************************************* 1.2 WHAT TAB WILL NOT TELL YOU *********************************************TAB will (usually) not tell you the note lengths of the notes - so in mostcases you will *have* to listen to the song yourself, with the TAB in frontof you to work out the ryhthm of the notes.TAB will not tell you which fingers you use to fret which note.TAB will (usually) not tell you anything about picking and strumming -you will have to decide for yourself where to use upstrokes/downstrokesand so on.********************************************** 2.0 TAB NOTATION - THE BASICS **********************************************TAB is simple to read, and should be simple to write if you want to submita song you have worked out yourself. The idea is this :You start out with 6 lines (or four for bass). These correspond to the stringsof the instrument. The top line is the highest pitch string, and the bottomline is the lowest pitch string. Below is a blank bit of TAB with the stringnames at the left.E----------------------------------------------------------------B----------------------------------------------------------------G----------------------------------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------Numbers are written on the lines to show you where to fret the stringwith the left hand. If a zero appears , this means play the open string.Like standard musical notation, you read from left to right to findout what order to play the notes. The following piece of TAB would meanplay the sequence of notes (E F F G G A) on the bottom E string bymoving up a fret at a time, starting with the open string.E----------------------------------------------------------------B----------------------------------------------------------------G----------------------------------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E---0--1--2--3--4--5---------------------------------------------OK so far ?Here we have notes being played one at a time. If two or more notesare to be played together, they are written on top of one another,again just like standard notation.In the next example we have a G bar chord.E----3------------------------------------------------------------B----3------------------------------------------------------------G----4------------------------------------------------------------D----5------------------------------------------------------------A----5------------------------------------------------------------E----3------------------------------------------------------------So this means play all these notes together as a chord.You might see the same chord written like this :E--------3--------------------------------------------------------B-------3---------------------------------------------------------G------4----------------------------------------------------------D-----5-----------------------------------------------------------A----5------------------------------------------------------------E---3-------------------------------------------------------------Which would mean strum the same shape starting at the bottom string, sothat each string is hit slightly later than the last string, but all noteswill ring together. Below is am example of the same shape again, but nowthe gaps between the notes are bigger - so you would probably pick thestrings separately instead of slowly strumming the shape.E------------------3----------------------------------------------B---------------3-----3--------------------------------------------G------------4-----------4-----------------------------------------D---------5-----------------5--------------------------------------A------5-----------------------5----------------------------------E---3-----------------------------3--------------------------------You might ask - How do I know how fast or slow to play this ? Are all the notes supposed to be the same length ?This is where TAB differs from standard notation. Most often TABwill *not* give you any information on the note lengths. It is usuallyleft up to you to listen to the song to pick up the rhythm.However - don`t despair. TAB should give you some indications oftiming. In the example above all the notes are evenly spaced so youcan reasonably assume that the notes are the same length (maybe alleighth notes or quavers) but this may not always be true - it depends onwho wrote the TAB.As a general rule, the spacing of the notes on the TAB should tell youwhich notes are the long ones, and which are the short and fast ones, butobviously it won`t tell you if a note is a triplet or anything likethat. Again, this will depend strongly on the person who wrote theTAB.As an example, here are the first few notes of the American NationalAnthem in TAB. You should see fairly clearly that the different spacingcorresponds to the different note lengths.E-----------------------0--------4--2-0--------------------------B---0--------------0---------------------------------0-----------G------1------1----------------------------1----3----------------D--------2-------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------Obviously it will be a lot easier to play the TAB for a song youknow well than for a song you`ve never heard of because you willalready be familiar with the ryhthms of the familiar song.******************************************** 2.1 OTHER SYMBOLS USED IN TAB ********************************************So far I`ve looked at what notes to play : which string to hit, andwhere to fret it. I`ve mentioned how to get an idea of note lengthsby looking at the spaces between notes on the TAB, but this can onlybe a rough guide. You will always have to check with the original trackto work out details of the rhythm.A lot of other imprtant information can be included in a piece of TAB.This includes hammer-ons, pull offs, slides, bends, vibrato and so on.The standard practice is to write extra letters or symbols between notesto indicate how to play them. Here are the letters/symbols mostoften used : h - hammer on p - pull off b - bend string up r - release bend / - slide up - slide down v - vibrato (sometimes written as ~) t - right hand tap x - play `note` with heavy dampingFor slides, s is sometimes used to indicate either an up or down slide.Symbols for harmonics are explained below in Section 3.2That last one, the x, is used to get a choppy, percussive sound.You usually use your fretting hand to lightly damp the strings sothat when you pick the note it sounds dead.Note that the use of `x` is *totally* different from the use ofan `x` when giving chord shapes.For example if you wrote the chord of D, you would see : EADGBE xx0232where the `x`s mean do not play this string.In tab it is implicitly assumed that a string is not played if it is notmarked. So the same chord in TAB would be :E-----2-----------------------------------------------------------B-----3-----------------------------------------------------------G-----2-----------------------------------------------------------D-----0-----------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------with no `x`. The x is is only used in TAB to represent a heavilymuted string which is picked/strummed to give a percussive sound.There are a number of other symbols for things like whammy bar bends,pick scrapes and so on. There seems to be no particular standardway of writing these - details should be given in the TAB to explainwhat the symbols mean.Bass TAB will probably need a few extra symbols to cope with thedifferent techniques used in bass playing - for example slappingand `popping` the string with thumb or middle finger.You could use `s` for slap and `p` for pop as long as you wrotethem *underneath* the lines of tab to distinguish them from slideand pull off which would be written *on* the lines of tab.******************************************* 2.2 HAMMER ONS AND PULL OFFS *******************************************With hammer-ons and pull-offs you might find things like these :E----------------------------------------------------------------B----------------------------------------------------------------G----------------------------------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A---------5h7-----------5h7--------------------------------------E---0--0----------0--0-------------------------------------------which would mean play the open E twice, then hit the A string at the5th fret and hammer on to the 7th fret.Pull offs look very similar :E----3p0------------------------------------------------------------B---------3p0-------------------------------------------------------G--------------2p0--------------------------------------------------D-------------------2---------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------Here we have a descending blues scale using pull-offs to the openstrings. For each pull off you only pick the first note of the pairwith the right hand - so in this example you would pick all thenotes on the 3rd and 2nd frets, and the open strings would besounded by pulling off.Because you give the string an extra bit of energy when you hammer onand pull off, you only need to hit the first note with the picking hand.You could even have a long string of hammer-ons and pull-offs likethis :E----------------------------------------------------------------B----------------------------------------------------------------G---2h4p2h4p2h4p2h4p2h4p2----------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------In this case you only pick the first note.Note - you might see other symbols used to mean hammer on or pull off, forexample ^ can be use to mean hammer-on and pull-off.e.g :G---2^4^2----which would mean "hit the note at the 2nd fret, hammer-on to the 4th andpull-off to the 2nd fret". It would make things easier if everyone usedthe same symbols, so unless you have a strong objection to `h` and `p`please use those. In any case, for any tab you send you should alwaysexplain what your symbols mean so if you use anything `unconventional`make sure you explain what it means.************************* 2.3 BENDS *************************When bends are involved you need to know how much to bend the noteup. This is indicated by writing a number after the `b`.For example, if you see this :E----------------------------------------------------------------B------7b9-------------------------------------------------------G----------------------------------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------it means strike the B string at the 7th fret, then bend the note uptwo semitones (one whole step) so that it sounds the same pitch asa note fretted at the 9th fret would do. (Sometimes the bend iswritten with the second part in brackets, like this ---7b(9)--- )Something like this :E----------------------------------------------------------------B------7b9--9r7--------------------------------------------------G----------------------------------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------means play the note at the 7th fret, bend up two semitones, strike thenote again whilst it is still bent, then release the bend so that thenote has it`s normal pitch.Sometimes a pre-bend is used - this is where the string is bent up*before* the note is struck. After striking the note, the bend isreleased. Pre-bends are usually written like this:E----------------------------------------------------------------B------(7)b9r7---------------------------------------------------G----------------------------------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------This means: fret the note at the 7th fret and bend the string up twosemitones (without actually playing the note). Now strike the string andrelease the bend.You sometimes get a note which is bent up only a quarter of a tone or so.In this case it would look a bit strange to write :B--------7b7.5--------if you have to bend it up half a fret`s worth.Instead it`s written as : bend up 1/4 toneE----------------------------------------------------------------B------7b--------------------------------------------------------G----------------------------------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------with instructions on how much to bend written above the note.************************* 2.4 SLIDES *************************The most common symbols used for slides are / for a slideup and for a slide down.You might also see `s` used to mean slide.You don`t always need separate symbols for `up` and `down` slidessince a line of TAB reading :E----------------------------------------------------------------B------7/9-------------------------------------------------------G----------------------------------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------is clearly a slide *up* from 7th to 9th fret. However you mightalso see things like these :E----------------------------------------------------------------B------/7-9-7---------------------------------------------------G----------------------------------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------where the exact start or finish of a slide is not given. Here youhave to know whether you`re sliding up or down. In these cases useyour judgement to choose the starting or finishing fret. The effectusually desired is to have a note `swooping in` from a lower pitchor dropping suddenly in pitch as the note fades.You could have a whole series of slides running together, like thisE----------------------------------------------------------------B------7/9/119767--------------------------------------------G----------------------------------------------------------------D----------------------------------------------------------------A----------------------------------------------------------------E----------------------------------------------------------------which would mean you only strike the first note with the pick usingthe sustain to produce the other notes.****************************************** 2.5 NOTE LENGTH INFORMATION ******************************************Occasionally you will find TAB which includes information on allof the note lengths. There seems to be no particular `standard`way of doing this, but it usually involves a line of letters orsymbols above the TAB.See below (Section 3.2 part 6) for more details.If the explanation of the timing symbols is not given in the TABthen you`ve got a problem !In this case a quick email to the author to ask for enlightenmentis the only way forward.Any questions?, I donґt think so