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 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 will tell you what notes to play - it will tell you which string to hit
and which fret to fret it at.
TAB will tell you where hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, slides, harmonics and
vibrato are used.
TAB will tell you what tuning the piece is in. If this isn't given
explicitly, assume normal tuning. TAB should also give you information
on use of capos etc.
TAB will give you an indication of the ryhthm of the piece - i.e it will tell
you 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.
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TAB will (usually) not tell you the note lengths of the notes - so in most
cases you will *have* to listen to the song yourself, with the TAB in front
of 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/downstrokes
and so on.
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