The most common form of lute tablature uses the same concept but differs in the details e. In the context of guitar tab, standard 5-line musical notation is usually called 'staff notation' - even though tab is also written on a staff - or just 'notation'.
Tab has several advantages over staff notation. Since it is a direct visual representation of the instrument's fretboard, it can often be easier and quicker for the player to interpret. Musicians learning to play the guitar or lute often find tab easier to read, even if they have a strong musical background and are adept at reading staff notation for piano or voice.
This is because the guitar and lute, like the piano, are 'harmonic' instruments, meaning that multiple notes are played at once; yet there is more complexity to producing a particular pitch than is the case with the piano: to produce, say, middle C, a pianist simply presses the C key, while a guitarist must select the second string, press the string down against the first fret with their left hand, and simultaneously pluck or pick the string with their right hand.
An additional potential source of confusion is the fact that many of the notes within the range of a plucked string instrument can be played on several different strings, so for example the middle C discussed above could also be played on the third string at the fifth fret or on the fourth string at the tenth fret. These complexities make the relation between staff notation and playing technique less direct in the case of fretted instruments than in the case of a piano.
Additionally, because guitar staff notation is written on a single staff compared to two staves for keyboard music , reading complex chords can take a while for even the most experienced guitarist. Tab does not suffer from this disadvantage. Another advantage of tab over staff notation is that tab can easily be represented as ASCII tab - a plain-text computer file, using numbers, letters and symbols to construct a slightly crude representation of tab.
This characteristic makes it easy to distribute tab electronically, a practice that has become immensely widespread; it is now possible to find tablature for virtually any popular music on the Internet. Tab does have its disadvantages, however. It is instrument-specific, while standard notation is generic. This limitation means, for instance, that only a guitarist can read tab, while music written in staff notation can be played by any suitable instrument.
Unlike staff notation, tab does not usually include the rhythm of the notes, only their pitch. In practice, this is not much of a limitation; some players read tab and staff notation in tandem, while others listen to a recording to get the 'feel' of the music before consulting the tab for instructions on how to play.
Most published tab is accompanied by staff notation so the two can be compared. However, rhythm can be indicated by notes or note stems written above the tab staff; this is always done in lute tablature, and sometimes in guitar tab, particularly if there is no accompanying notation staff. Lute tablature is conceptually similar to guitar tablature, but comes in at least three different varieties.
The most common variety used today is based on the French Renaissance style see example at right. In this style the strings are represented by the spaces on the staff rather than the lines on the staff, as for guitar tablature , and the stops are indicated by lowercase letters of the alphabet rather than numbers , with the letter 'a' indicating an open string and the 'j' skipped as it was not originally a separate letter from 'i'.
A six-line staff is used, just as for modern guitar tab. However, stops for the first course are shown immediately above the top line, and stops for any courses beyond the sixth are shown below the bottom line, with short horizontal strokes to extend the staff similar to the way very low notes are shown in regular musical notation. Pieces written for the lute and Baroque guitar were all written in tab only. This beautiful manuscript is for a piece of music written for voice accompanied an instrument called the vihuela.
Notes to be sung are in indicated in red and the lyrics are printed below. The rhythms are shown above the staff. If a note doesn't have a rhythmic value above it, then you just keep using the previous note value. Before tab became standardized, German, French and Italian ways of writing tab were all very different. Sometimes, the lowest line would represent the highest sounding string as some beginners often assume today , and sometimes letters were used instead of numbers.
It's not really a valid debate in my mind because they are fundamentally different in the information that they convey. Both systems have strengths and weaknesses, but the importance attached to those strengths and weaknesses will vary from person to person, depending on their particular musical preferences and aspirations.
The fundamental difference between the two systems is that standard music notation is a visual representation of the pitch and duration of the notes of a piece of music, while guitar tablature is a set of fretboard fingering instructions that enable you to locate and produce those notes. The example above shows two bars measures in standard notation on top with the equivalent tablature below. Standard Music Notation The standard notation staff shows the notes of the music.
The pitch of each note is determined by its vertical position on the staff. The higher up in the staff it appears, the higher its pitch. The duration of each note is shown by the shape of the symbol. Standard notation's purpose is to ' show ' what the music sounds like. It's not meant to show you how to play it on any instrument. Learning standard notation for guitar involves locating all the notes on fretboard, learning when and how long to play them, and what all the other signs and symbols mean.
It takes many months of preferably daily practice to start to become competent, let alone fluent. Guitar Tablature In the tab example above, the lines represent the six strings in ascending pitch order, and the numbers on those strings tell you which fret to hold when playing that string. Read from left to right and that's it learned There's no need for months of study to understand tab.
What basic tablature doesn't tell you, however, is when the notes are to be played and for how long they should be held. The above example is so simple, however, that just by playing the notes without caring too much about timing, you would still instantly recognise it. A more complex song would be impossible to play correctly unless you already knew how it was supposed to sound.
If you're still not quite sure how tab works, see the link at the end of this article to read my lesson on guitar tablature basics. Although basic tab lacks timing information, more advanced forms of guitar tablature show timing information using cut down duration symbols based on those of standard music notation. They're not as sophisticated, but they work well enough. Of course, unlike basic tab, those symbols aren't self explanatory and have to be learned just like with standard notation.
If you want to learn those tablature timing symbols, look at my lesson: Timing and note durations in guitar tablature. As mentioned earlier, each person will find aspects of either system to be an advantage or disadvantage depending on what they're using it for. What one person finds to be an advantage, another may find to be a disadvantage. Most people agree, however, that there are pros and cons to both systems.
Here are the most commonly cited ones. Also keep in mind that the cons of standard notation refer to its use in notating guitar music and not necessarily to a weakness in the system itself. You already have - at least the basics. It's up to you whether to use it or not. If you want to learn the fancy fingerstyle intro to "Stairway to Heaven", for example, you can easily find a free tab of it online, and play it straight off just by following the fingering instructions and by knowing how it's supposed to sound.
There are also a bunch of symbols that are used in tab that show guitar specific techniques such as hammer-ons and pull-offs, string bending, palm muting, pinched harmonics and more, but they're not essential to understanding the basics of guitar tablature, and many are obvious anyway.
While it's great to know standard notation, it depends on what your musical ambitions are whether it's worth investing the time and effort required to learn it. If you want to become a session musician booked to accompany artists, then, yes, it's an almost essential requirement if you want to make a living at it. If you want to strum Bob Dylan songs around a campfire, then no, it's not necessary. Reading music won't help you strum those songs any better.
If you want to learn classical guitar, then yes because that's how it's traditionally taught.
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