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***  1.1    WHAT TAB WILL TELL YOU   ***
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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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***  1.2   WHAT TAB WILL NOT TELL YOU  ***
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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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***  2.0   TAB NOTATION  -  THE BASICS  ***
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TAB is simple to read, and should be simple to write if you want to submit
a song you have worked out yourself.  The idea is this :
 
You start out with 6 lines (or four for bass). These correspond to the
strings
of the instrument.  The top line is the highest pitch string, and the bottom 
line is the lowest pitch string.  Below is a blank bit of TAB with the string
names at the left.
 
 
E----------------------------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------------------------
G----------------------------------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
Numbers are written on the lines to show you where to fret the string
with the left hand. If a zero appears , this means play the open string.
Like standard musical notation, you read from left to right to find
out what order to play the notes.  The following piece of TAB would mean
play the sequence of notes (E F F# G G# A) on the bottom E string by
moving 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 ?
 

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