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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by RockyRaccoon (talk | contribs) at 04:35, 21 October 2005 (responded to "TabWiki" statement.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Example

I'm going to work on an example tablature for this article... any suggestions as to songs? I was thinking of something simple like "major chords shown in tablature" but if you don't know how to read tablature you probably don't know chords. If I did something popular that everyone knows like "Yankee Doodle" or "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", Joe Reader would be able to figure out how the tablature corresponds to the guitar neck. -- ヤギ

good idea -- Tarquin 09:29 Mar 8, 2003 (UTC)

Slides & bass

I don't know many contemporary songs that employ slides... "ATWA" is a good example but it's not what I would call a "popular" song. If anyone knows a better example, feel free to chime in. -- Ô¿Ô

How about the opening bass line to "Otherside" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers? Be good to get some non-guitar tab onto this page... leigh

Wright's guide

I have a question....one of the contributors to the old OLGA tab archive (Howard Wright) wrote a tablature guide for that site, which is pretty vast and encyclopedic. Would it be appropriate to ask him if we could use his guide here? Or I suppose we could just put a link to it. If anyone else wants to take a look at it, the link is: http://www.jmdl.com/howard/music/tabfaq.html Adam Bishop 16:28 16 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Monospace

Somebody less new to Wikipedia than me should convert all these tab examples to a monospaced font, and probably even add a note saying that viewing tablature online is often impossible when it's not displayed in a monospaced font. leigh

They're all in a monospace font on my screen. Adam Bishop 06:42, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Though it would seem that not all tablature sites are created equal, the problem seems to me that they are. They either share or steal the same tabs, so one can look through six sites and find the same exact information and nothing new. Thus we may need some sort of criteria for including and exluding external links. I notice, for instance, that one of the better sites, OLGA, is not included, while several similar sites similar to each other are. Perhaps we could have a short description of the link explaining its pluses, minuses, or other differentiating details? Hyacinth 29 June 2005 07:50 (UTC)

Tablature Wiki

Someone should create something like WikiTab or along those lines that would be the same idea as Wikipedia (where everyone can edit it) but for guitar, bass, etc tabs. The only problem I see with doing something like this is that much of the tablature community consists of young, often immature musicians who may erase/incorrectly change/deface credible tabs. It may require heavy moderation. This is just a thought, maybe someone could pick up on it.

A place like this actually exists -- it's called TabWiki. There are already 1350 members (as of this writing) and it has only been in operation since February 2005. I think it has great potential. There is already a community of active tabbers, but it still has a way to go just to catch up to the collection of other, more established sites. It's located at http://www.tabwiki.com. --RockyRaccoon 21 Oct 2005.

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