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If you want to send in a TAB with rhythm information like this
then it's *essential* to explain the system you use. I've seen
a lot of different systems of letters and numbers of varying
degrees of simplicity and readability. Whichever you choose to
use, you'll have to explain all your symbols to make sure others
can work out what the hell you're on about.
 
 
If you want to give a few clues as to the rhythm of the TAB, but
don't want to get too involved, use of bar lines is an effective
way of conveying timing information.
 
Simply insert a vertical line of   |'s to indicate the end of a 
bar. So using the national anthem example I had before, with bar 
lines it looks like this :
 
 
E--------|---------------|0--------4--2-|0--------------|--------
B---0----|----------0----|--------------|---------------|0-------
G------1-|-----1---------|--------------|-----1----3----|--------
D--------|2--------------|--------------|---------------|--------
A--------|---------------|--------------|---------------|--------
E--------|---------------|--------------|---------------|--------
 
 
 
-- 7 --   Lyrics
 
 
It's a lot easier to follow a piece of TAB when you've got at least
some of the lyrics to follow, and you can match up the notes/riffs
in the TAB to the lyrics.
 
Try to include lyrics for at least the first verse and chorus. If
you're not sure of the words you can ftp cs.uwp.edu - there is a
large collection of song lyrics held there.
 
Failing that a request to the newsgroups along the lines of
 
" Please mail me the lyrics to such and such so that I can make
a proper job of the TAB I'm working on"
 
will usually get a sympathetic response.
 
 
 
As a final note on writing TAB I should say that whenever you post
to the newsgroups ALWAYS cross post to both guitar groups, and also
mail a copy to guitar@nevada.edu so that it can be included in OLGA.
 
For more information on posting to the guitar newsgroups and OLGA
see the other FAQs regularly posted to the guitar newsgroups.
 
 
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-- 1 -- Tab Wraparound
 
One of the most common problems in writing TAB  is text wraparound.
This makes the TAB almost impossible to read but is very easily 
avoided.
 
The problem occurs when you write a line of TAB which is maybe 80 
or 90 characters long. For a lot of people this is too wide for 
their screen, so what should be a single line of tab ends up being
split onto two lines.
 
Here is what it looks like :
 
 
 
E---------------------------------------------0-------------------------------
----------------
 
B---------------------------------------2--4-----4--2-------------------------
----------------
 
G------------------------------1--2--4-----------------4--2--1----------------
----------------
 
D---------------------1--2--4-----------------------------------4--2--1-------
----------------
 
A------------0--2--4-----------------------------------------------------4--2-
-0---------------
 
E---0--2--4-------------------------------------------------------------------
----4--2--0-----
 

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