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echo: tablature
to: BRENT GOODWIN
from: MARCO PRAGLIOLA
date: 1997-12-05 07:50:00
subject: What`s a tab?

Hello Brent,
Il29 Novembre 1997, Sabato alle 12:01, All ebbe la visione di Brent Goodwin 
che cosi' disse:
 BG>        I'm to fidonet so please over look me........ But what i want to
 BG> know is what is "TABS"
TABS (= TABlatureS) are a way to represent music on fretted instruments, like 
acou. and electric guitar and basses.
Normal pentagrams show the lenght and the pitch of a note on 5 lines (er.. 
actually there are more, but I won't get too difficult!) The point is that on 
guitar he same notes can be obtained in many positions, on various strings, 
and they sound differently too.
So the tablature represents 6 lines (each one is a string of the guitar - 
obviously bass tabs [btab] can have 4,5,6 lines depending on the string 
number) with numbers on them showing what fret of what string must be 
"played".
This "thing" below is a tab, meaning: play string 1, fret 1, and then string 
2 fret 2 and string 3 fret 6 TOGETHER...
|-1---
|---2-
|---6-
|-----
|-----
|-----
I hope I've been clear in my explanation.
Sayonara!
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