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05 September 2010 |
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Guitar Tab BooksThere has long been a tradition of passing on guitar music fom one musician to another, rather than using the more formal music notation used in classical music. There are two reasons for this, one is accessibility, the music being available to many more musicians than have studied formal music notation, the other being spontaniety, music which can be picked up quickly can be shared and enjoyed immediately. To back up this informal method of sharing, there has grown a form of musical shorthand, known to us all as tab, which is short for tablature. This means simply that the music is written down in table form, with the lines of the table representing the guitar fretboard. The notes to be played are shown as numbers on the line for the string to be fretted, or held down on the fretboard. The number tells you which fret to hold down the string on. A zero means play the string open, that is without holding the string down at any fret. A line linking two notes means play them together, a curved line above linking two notes means hammer on, a technique which involves playing an open or fretted string, then quickly fretting the string at a higher note, while the sound is still ringing. A curved link below two notes means pull off, that is fret a note, then pull the finger off while the note is still ringing. All this means guitarists can pick up new tunes very quickly, without having to wait to learn to read music, which can be studied later if required. There is a great deal of tab available on the internet, much of which is an individual's, often amateur, interpretation of the music. You can be sure you have it exactly right by buying the official tab music book, which will show the music exactly as the group or guitarist would have played it on a recording or at a concert.
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