Electric Guitar Tabs Explained
Tablature as a means of writing music down has been with us for hundreds of years, but many people
today look down on tabs as a third rate method of musical communication. In fact, tablature is not a
dumbed down version of conventional musical notation, rather what we call sheet music grew from a
need for more versatility in notation as music became more complex in medieval times. Electric Guitar
Tabs have been a great help to the many people who have taken up the electric guitar and who wanted
to get down to the business of playing as quickly as possible.
Conventional music notation has much more to communicate than tabs, but if you already know more
or less how the song sounds, and are prepared to work at your own interpretation, then there is nothing
wrong with using tablature.
Guitarists composing music using tabs and sharing the results of their work on the internet have brought
a wide range of music within reach of amateur musicians who never learnt to read music. To some
guitarists learning to read music is a waste of time that would be put to better use expressing their
feelings through music. This attitude is at odds with the idea that the more theoretical knowledge you
have, the greater the pool of resources at your disposal for expressing your ideas.
Tablature, on the other hand, allows the guitarist to get to know the basic piece of music in his own way,
and use his musical intuition and flair for improvisation to produce a musical work which will be as much
his own work as the original composer's. For that reason electric guitar tabs are a boon to the electric
guitar player who does not want to just produce a copy of someone else's work.
You can find electric guitar tabs in music stores along with conventional written music, but the quickest
and best place to look for electric guitar tabs is on the internet. Even though there's a legal dogfight
going on about tab publishers infringing the rights of the or