So, what's a tab?

martha · 01-01-2003, 12:12 AM

It says something about "tabs." What are they?

I have no musical knowledge; go slowly.

FallingStar · 01-02-2003, 12:17 PM

Tabs are notes for guitar or bass written in a way so that people who can't read notes are able to play the music nevertheless.

http://cu.comp-unltd.com/~noneal/singles/cartoon.txt

^^Like this.

Pretty easy to play tabs.

martha · 01-02-2003, 12:30 PM

Ohhhh. Cool! Thanks!

greenbax · 01-19-2003, 02:55 PM

You know how paint by numbers works?

This is exactly the same.

There are 6 horizontal lines on the page representing the six guitar strings as follows:

E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
D ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

On these lines numbers are written to tell you in what fret on the guitar fingerboard to play the note. The following is the guitar part for the first two bars of the second verse of pride:

E ------------------0--------------------------------------0---------------------
B --------------------------------------------------------------0----------------
G -----------------------8-----------------------------------------6-------------
D ------------9-------------9-----------------------7----------------7----------
A --------9--------------------------------------7-------------------------------
E ----7---------------------------------------5---------------------------------- I hope this helps you

Peace & Love

fah · 03-13-2004, 02:59 AM

Thanks, I had no idea what tabs were either

01-01-2003, 12:12 AM	#1
martha She's the One Premium Gold Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Orange County and all over the goddam place Posts: 32,386 Local Time: 12:48 AM	So, what's a tab? It says something about "tabs." What are they? I have no musical knowledge; go slowly. __________________ Skywheel Skywheel Blog

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01-02-2003, 12:17 PM	#2
FallingStar Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 8,800 Local Time: 09:48 AM	Tabs are notes for guitar or bass written in a way so that people who can't read notes are able to play the music nevertheless. http://cu.comp-unltd.com/~noneal/singles/cartoon.txt ^^Like this. Pretty easy to play tabs.

01-19-2003, 02:55 PM	#4
greenbax The Fly Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: East Midlands - England Posts: 41 Local Time: 07:48 AM	You know how paint by numbers works? This is exactly the same. There are 6 horizontal lines on the page representing the six guitar strings as follows: E --------------------------------------------------------------------------- B --------------------------------------------------------------------------- G --------------------------------------------------------------------------- D --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A --------------------------------------------------------------------------- E --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On these lines numbers are written to tell you in what fret on the guitar fingerboard to play the note. The following is the guitar part for the first two bars of the second verse of pride: E ------------------0--------------------------------------0--------------------- B --------------------------------------------------------------0---------------- G -----------------------8-----------------------------------------6------------- D ------------9-------------9-----------------------7----------------7---------- A --------9--------------------------------------7------------------------------- E ----7---------------------------------------5---------------------------------- I hope this helps you Peace & Love

03-13-2004, 02:59 AM	#5
fah Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: In my house with the rest of fahs Posts: 20,143 Local Time: 11:48 PM	Thanks, I had no idea what tabs were either