
The other is that it is literally impossible to notate say, a string bend, with the exact same nuances B. One reason for this is that the person writing the tab is a fallible human and can make mistakes.

Just keep in mind that you may encounter some differences, depending on the format of the tabs. I find this way of representing music the most accurate. I use GuitarPro for all the music I write so I’ll be using the symbols used by this software. There are different ways technique can be notated on guitar tabs, depending on the tablature software being used.In this section, we’ll go through some of the more commonly used techniques on the guitar and see how they are notated in guitar tabs. Guitar techniques on tabĮvery instrument has a set of techniques that make it unique, and the guitar is no exception. Note: Though guitar tabs show you what the notes in the chord are and where to play them, they’re not the ideal way to learn chords. In the next example play the first note with your index finger, the second with your pinkie, etc. In that case, you shift your whole hand so that your index finger frets the note closest to the neck while your remaining fingers fret the rest of the notes. What if the music has notes from fret 6, 9, or 18? In each case, you should use your index finger to press fret 1, the middle finger for fret 2, the ring finger for fret 3, and the pinkie for fret 4. Position shiftingĪll the exercises above use notes from the first four frets (or open strings). It will take you longer to learn the song, but you would be training your ear in the process. If you can’t find the notation of the music you should learn how to figure out the rhythm by ear. Note: Not all guitar tabs come accompanied by standard music notation. The next exercise is a simple melody that uses notes of unequal duration. Unlike learning to identify the notes on the fretboard from standard notation, learning to identify the duration of each note isn’t hard. The easy solution to this is to use the standard notation to get the rhythm. The reason I kept things so simple is that guitar tabs do not tell us the duration of each note.

In all the above exercises every note is of equal duration – one-quarter note (crotchet) each beat.
