Tablature is a form of graphic notation that depicts a fretboard and strings, with numerals indicating where each string should be fretted.
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Playing Guitar Tabs on Piano?
I was wondering if anyone could possibly explain how I could somehow translate a guitar tab into notes on piano. Is there some sort of algorithm I can apply?
ex:
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Bass guitar solfeggietto adapted from guitar tab
I want to adapt the Solfeggietto by C.P.E. Bach, to play on my bass, like seen here.
First of all, I'm not a musician but a software developer. I've been playing bass for fun since I was a teenager ...
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How do you play this tablature notation?
How do I play this on my guitar?
A side question, is there a reference site for checking music and tablature notation?
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E-B-G-D-A-E Guitar Strings Vs. E-A-D-G-B-E Guitar Strings?
So I am a super noob to guitar. I play piano mostly. I recently restrung my dad's old classical guitar (nylon string). I am looking at the tabs for a song and the strings are going like "E-B-G-D-A-E" ...
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Learning tablature with tutoring software that shows me what to do in real-time [closed]
I want to practice playing songs off of tablature, but I think it would be easier for me if I saw the actual notes displayed on a virtual fretboard while the song is playing. Guitar Guru does ...
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How to extract musical notes(tabs) from chords?
Is there any way to extract tabs from the chord?
I am a guitar player and i want to play some songs on my guitar. I found the chords for these songs on the internet but there are no tabs available. I ...
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How do I play this ornament/slur? (Guitar Tab)
(As I have 2 questions about this specific tab and as they're both (probably) easy to answer, I figured I'd just ask them at the same time)
How do I play the ... ?
Ornament (Green)
I guess the ...
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Tips and tools to help transcribing a bass line in tablature
I'd like to transcribe a song that I couldn't find a proper version of on the Internet. Transcribing the guitar and drums (I'm a guitarist and beginner bassist) was not really difficult but I find ...
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Symbols “M”, “C”, “D”, and “P” in Guitar Tablature
I was reading a songbook by Richie Kotzen, and in the song "Shine" (which he played with Mr. Big), there's a rythm guitar part that goes like this:
What do the symbols M, C, D and P mean? I'm ...
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Need help identifying a scale
The song/riff in question is in the intro of a song by "After the Burial" called "Cursing Akhenaten".
I cut a full measure out of the intro and looped it. I uploaded it for anyone who wants to take ...
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What are the legal issues related to guitar tablature? [closed]
What are the legal issues surrounding free guitar tablature? I have some specific questions:
How are companies such as guitar-pro selling software to read gpx(gp5, etc.) tabs - is that legal? ...
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Is there some software tool that analyzes audio to produce pitch information?
Such a tool would be extremely useful to me. What I want it to do is, given a sound file be able to get the pitch every time it changes. I don't know how this could be done, or even if it's possible. ...
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Numerous questions about advanced guitar tablature notation
8 slide 0...why is 0 in parentheses?
7 slide 9...what does curve under mean?
5 7 5..7 5 0..are they hammers or pull offs..how you distinguish those
how to play this?
what does this long line ...
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Tabbing Triplets With Large Intervals
I have been trying to find a way to tab the song Questa Notte by Ludovico Einaudi for quite a while - everything is very much "tab-able" and playable until the triplets part.
I've sought helped on ...
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Software to convert between sheet music and tablature?
Is there any software available that can (semi)automatically convert between ASCII tablature (especially for guitar and drums) and sheet music? And the other way around?
I realise that there's not ...
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How can I learn timing from a guitar tab?
When playing guitar/bass from tabs, I find that I can learn the fingering easily, but the timing is often wrong when I play with a backing track. I'm fairly noobish to music notation/tablature, but I ...
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Heavy metal: how to play and “arc down” shown in tablature
I'm currently mastering a Troy Stetina "Heavy Metal rhythm" course, but having troubles with one of the exercises. It has an "half arc pointed down" sybmol after a note on 12th fret, what does it ...
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How to determine time signature of drum tab?
Recently I started playing drums on the side just to relax, so nothing serious. I picked up this song because the drums seemed reasonably complex so that they would present a fair challenge for the ...
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How do I write good tablature?
Often, I hear a song that I would like to learn to play, but I can't find good tablature on the Internet. How do I write up my own tab quickly, so I can use it for reference in the future?
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How do you express the key of a song in tablature?
I can play open chords, barre chords on the guitar. Also I can find the key of a song, and from that can find the chords. But when it comes to tabbing the song, I get stuck.
If a song is say in C ...
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How does the use of tablatures impact one's learning and sight-reading abilities?
The first instrument I learned was the piano, where having sheet music in staff notation is sufficient to know exactly what you need to play. Lately, I started to learn the guitar and the harmonica, ...
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How do I play this tab of No More Sorrow's Live version
I'm trying to play the live version of Linkin Park's No More Sorrow.
Tuning is half step down drop D
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How to play these chords?
I'm trying to play the song here. What confuses me is when I see things like 0h2p0 and 0h2(x4). What are those, and how do you play them?
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“х” on tablature - how do I play it?
I'm learning "Last Christmas" arrangement for the acoustic guitar, and have encountered lots of notes marked as "x" in tablature.
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How can I get a song tabbed?
There's a song I've been dying to play, relatively simple, but I'm not good enough to figure out how to tab it. How can I get a song tabbed if I can't do it myself?
