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Tabulated music or
Tabs for short
Tablature is a form of musical notation,
which tells players where to place their
fingers on a particular instrument rather
than which pitches or notes to play.
Tablature is normally used for fretted
stringed instruments, and usually called Tab
for short such as guitar
tab, bass tab, drum tab, piano tab or just
music tabs. Tab is commonly used in
rock, pop and folk music.
It is now available for
the
guitar,
bass,
lute,
archlute,
theorbo,
angélique,
mandora,
gallichon,
vihuela,
ukulele,
mandolin,
banjo,
viola da gamba,
and
aerophones
such as the
harmonica.
Tab commonly refers to
conventional chord symbols for harmony and
note names for melody. Originally, it was
written as ASCII tab, (pronounced
“ask-ee”) a plain-text computer file, using
numbers, letters and symbols which made it
easy to download Tabs from the internet.
It's now possible to download free Tabs for
virtually any popular music, subject to
copyright.
But with the advance in music software,
tablature is now written in other music file
formats,
TablEdit
being one of the leaders in the field, which
can open or import ASCII, MIDI, ABC,
MusicXML, Bucket O' Tab, TabRite, and Wayne
Cripps files and save in TablEdit format or
export to ASCII, HTML, ABC, RTF, MIDI or WAV
formats.
TAB is written for a particular type of
instrument while staff notation or sheet
music can be played on several instruments.
This means that if a guitarist/pianist
learns to read solely from tab, they will
not be able to communicate with other
musicians and will not be able to read
pieces that are composed for other
instruments or written in standard staff
notation / sheet music.
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