#Hold the line tab how to

Guitar Pro 8 gives you everything you need to edit and create your own Guitar TABs. The easiest way is with Guitar Pro 8 (link to my full review). There are a few different ways you can create your own formal Guitar TAB.

#Hold the line tab how to

If you don’t know how to read standard notation, you can simply ignore the top staff and read the bottom Guitar TAB staff. Many guitarists prefer this format because it gives you the most information on how to play a song on guitar. This is the best of both worlds as it gives you two different ways of reading the same music. The top half is the song written in Standard Notation and the bottom half is written in Tablature.

As you can see below, there are two staffs connected together: If you buy a Guitar TAB book, you will likely see this format. Formal Guitar TAB like this or the below type is far more useful. This is why I recommend avoiding text-based Guitar TAB if possible. You may notice that there is a lot more information on this TAB compared to the text-based Guitar TAB from earlier. Websites like Songsterr use an interactive type of Guitar TAB that looks slightly different than text-based Guitar TAB.Īs you can see, the above Guitar TAB looks similar to the text-based Guitar TAB earlier, but is easier to read and uses different symbols.

Simply changing the font will fix the format issues. If you see Guitar TAB like the below, it means the wrong font was used. Notepad in Windows has quite a few different fonts that work well with Guitar TAB. The font Courier New is the most popular font for writing this type of Guitar TAB. If you want to write Guitar TAB in this format, you need to use a specific type of font.