Which Is Better?
Guitar Tablature vs Standard Musical Notation - Understanding Guitar Tab
The skinny on Tablature.
A lot of people who read tablature tell me when I asked them about reading notes, they
say "well, that's too hard, tablature is easy" which is true and then I have guitar teacher
tell me "Oohh, I don't want students reading tab, they need to learn read notes.
It seems to me that they're both valuable and it's helpful to be able to understand
basic note reading and to be able to understand tablature and to use both when either one
is appropriate sometimes even both.
Now a lot of people do things that reading notes is too hard and tablature is easy.
In fact, reading notes is not that hard it does take more time and especially if you
just look at notes it doesn't make sense but with methodical approach it's really not that
hard to read music.
With that said, there are some approaches to reading tablature.
It is very easy to understand just by looking at it.
It's a more natural representation of the guitar neck.
You can see then looks like a guitar fret board.
The other thing its very available that's easy to find tabs on free websites or you
can find pretty much any song somewhere and the other thing is if you want to create tablature
yourself you can actually do it on a typewriter.
You can use regular typewriter font to create a rough version of tab.
Now there are some cons as well.
The biggest one is that tablature doesn't give you all the information and in particular
it doesn't tell you how long to hold the note, that's a real downside actually.
You either have to know the song or have the recorded version to keep comparing if you
have tablature.
The other thing is if you're looking for a free website for tab, a lot of it is not just
accurate and there's really versions from a really an accurate to pretty good.
Of course, anybody can put free tablature on the web so even some 10-year-old boy can
scribble up something and put it on there and it may not be really close to the song.
I used sometimes website to look for tablature and I just compare different version and see
what sounds more like the actual song.
Another thing is when you learn to read music you're learning something that's universal.
You can apply it to other instruments, tab -- you cannot.
Guitar tablature is only for the guitar.
Tablature is fairly easy to understand.
This lines, these are the tablature lines six of them represents the six strings of
the guitar.
The top line is the thickest string on the guitar, the low E string and the bottom line
is the high E string -- the thinnest string on the guitar so it goes first string, second
string, third string, fourth, fifth and sixth.
The number is represented the fret of the guitar not the fingers, the fret so zero means
the open string.
This right here means 1, 2, 3, 4 string open.
This is the 5th string 3rd fret.
Now for starting you probably going to use the third finger but later on you'll see five
and of course you can use the 5th finger.
Tablature is very easy to understand but incomplete that's why it's almost always accompanied
by notes.
The biggest omission in tablature is it doesn't tell you how long to hold the notes but notation
does.
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