About Guitar Tablature

Below is a brief guide to how my tablature is displayed on the following pages.

ALERT! Don't take any written notes or tab too 'Literally' (IE; •I've seen it, •that is it, •do it as seen!). Any person writing this up is quite limited in what they can show with numbers on lines, you need to use this as a reference and work it into music. Growing up musicaly, relying on someone else e.g. the internet to give you all the data is not a good way to go.

Strings listed directly above eachother are played at the same time. Notes in a row are played one-by-one as a tune, repeated runs of notes like this are called 'Riffs'. Use short or long gaps between them and the 1-2-3-4 colour patches as a rough guide as to how long the note 'rings' for, but don't rely on this... do you know how the song goes?
Take five minutes to listen to it again humming along to the guitar, then play along to the tune in your head.

STRING FRET-NUMBER SLIDE   HAMMER PULL  BEND(1semitone) PLAY STOP  MUTED-HIT
                    
 E [---------------S---S-----H-----P----------------------------------------
 B [--------------3/5-5\3---3^5---5^3-----5↑¹-------------------------------
 G [------------------------------------------------------------------------
 D [---7-(7th)-------------------------------------------5-,-,-.-----X-X----
 A [---0-(open)------------------------------------------5-,-,-.-----X-X----
 E [-----------------------------------------------------3-,-,-.-----X-X----

 BACKGROUND COLOUR; change in portions as a guide to the count of the beat.
     1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   
 G [---------------------------------| 
 D [-------------2-0-------4-----0-2-| 
 A [-----------2---------2-----2-----| 
 E [-0-----3-4-----------------------|    Please note that if your browser 
                                          displays text larger than default 
 Or for some riffs this will suit;        size the numbers may not line up
 G [-----2---------------------------|    to their correct colour blocks.
 D [---2---2-----3-------0---0---0---|
 A [-0---------3---3---0---0---0---0-|    I'm afraid I can't change this.
 D [---------3-------0---------------|