Guitar and Bass Tablature Tips & Guidelines
DO NOT copy the tab off elsewhere; listen to the song in a quiet room and tab it! Also, be sure that you know what you're doing! You might want to look at a few other existing tabs first. Here are two good guides to tabbing for guitar. NOTE: These open in this window. You MAY LOSE DATA you entered!
Use the following symbols and this template for guitar or this for bass to write the tablature. Note that you don't need to write a tab in cases when chords is good enough: give a legend of the chords, and overlay them over the lyrics. Try to add as accurate and detailed info as possible, on topics such as timing, accents, bar lines, etc. Finally, limit your tab to as wide as the input box. |
- Numbers 1,2,3...: Fret number
- hy: Hammer-on y
- py: Pull-off y
- x: Muted, struck string
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- xby: Play x, bend string to sound as y
- (x)ry: Unbend string (from x) to sound as y
- x/y: Slide up from x to y
- <x>: Harmonics on x
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- x\y: Slide down from x to y
- xv: Vibrato on x
- tx: Tap x (with strumming hand)
- Notate symbols you use in a legend!
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Drum Tablature Tips & Guidelines
DO NOT copy the tab off elsewhere; listen to the song in a quiet room and tab it! Also, please make sure your submission meets our criterias, and that you know what you're doing! You might want to look at a few other existing tabs first. We recommend you to check out this guide to drum tabs .
Use the following symbols (below) and this template to write the tab. Be as accurate as possible! Also, limit your tab to as wide as the input box.
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Cymbal parts: put them in the order here, above the drums
- CC: Crash Cymbal
- CR: Crash-Ride Cymbal
- Rd: Ride Cymbal
- HH: Hi-Hat
- Hf: Hi-hat with foot
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Drum/foot parts: put them in the order here
- S: Snare drum
- t/T: Small/medium tom
- F, F2...: Floor toms
- B: Bass drum
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Cymbal line notation:
- |-x-|: Hit (normal)
- |-X-|: Accented strike (loose hi-hat)
- |-#-|: Choke cymbal (hit then grab to stop)
- |-o-|: Hit open Hi-hat
- |-b-|: Hit bell of cymbal
- Notate symbols you use in a legend!
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Tablature:
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