Do It Again Electric Guitar Tab

Guitar Tab Symbols, Notations and Abbreviations

On this folio I published the ultimate table of guitar tab note and symbols for both graphic tablatures that more often than not used in guitar magazines, books, software editors, as well as the ASCII (plain text) tabs that often can be establish on web pages.

It is one of the most complete references out at that place, then you might bookmark this page for hereafter use, rarer notation symbols I've put closer to the bottom.

You'll see that in the ASCII column there's a lot of blank cells, it's because ASCII tabs practice not have some equivalent annotation and symbols, this presumes that y'all know the song and can figure out additional playing techniques on your own.

Graphic tablatures often include lines of staff notation along with tab lines, that's why I created diverse examples in gild to become you lot used to different tab formats.

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Symbols, Notations and Abbreviations Used in Guitar Tablatures
ASCII tab examples	Abbreviations and extra info	Whole proper noun
		Downstroke (down picking)
		Upstroke (upwards picking)
		Finger Numbering for the fretting hand
character "10" earlier notes: i\|---------------- 2\|---------------- 3\|---------------- 4\|---------------- 5\|--x5-x5-x5-x5--- half-dozen\|---------------- and sometimes as PM: PM - - - - - -\| ane\|---------------- ii\|---------------- 3\|---------------- iv\|---------------- 5\|---5--v--5--v--- vi\|----------------	P.M.	Palm Mute
		Rake
		Arpeggiated Chord Strumming across the strings in the direction of the arrow.
p i m i a i m i 1\|---------0------- 2\|-----1-------i--- iii\|---0---0---0---0- iv\|----------------- 5\|-iii--------------- 6\|-----------------	p i m a	Fingerstyle Guitar fingering system for the plucking hand: p - thumb i - index finger one thousand - heart finger a - ring finger
A.H. or Harm. 1\|---3------------ 2\|---------------- 3\|---------------- iv\|---------------- 5\|---------------- half-dozen\|----------------	A.H.	Artificial Harmonics
1\|---------------- 2\|---------------- 3\|-----<12>------- four\|---------------- five\|---------------- 6\|----------------	N.H.	Natural Harmonics in ASCII tabs it tin as well be marked as North.H. and sometimes every bit '+' symbol above the tab.
TH 1\|---------------- 2\|---------------- 3\|------12-------- four\|---------------- 5\|---------------- 6\|----------------	T.H.	Tapped Harmonics
one\|---------------- ii\|--<8>----------- iii\|--------<7>----- 4\|---------------- five\|---------------- 6\|----------------	fret numbers inside triangles used with graphic tabs	Pinched Harmonics
	TCH	Touch Harmonics a ringing note is touched above the fret, indicated by the TCH abbreviation.
ane\|---------------- 2\|---------------- 3\|-----7b9-------- 4\|---------------- 5\|---------------- 6\|----------------	BU or b	Bend Upward
ane\|------r2-------- 2\|---------------- 3\|---------------- iv\|---------------- v\|---------------- half-dozen\|----------------	BD or r	Bend Downwardly or Release
i\|---------------- two\|---------------- 3\|------pb7------- 4\|---------------- 5\|---------------- 6\|----------------	PB	Pre-curve
~~~ ane\|--7v--or-7------ 2\|---------------- 3\|---------------- four\|---------------- 5\|---------------- 6\|----------------	5 or ~~~	Vibrato
1\|---------------- 2\|---------------- 3\|-5h7--rarely-5^7 4\|---------------- v\|---------------- 6\|----------------	H.O.	Hammer On (legato )
one\|---------------- 2\|---------------- 3\|-7p5--rarely-7^5 4\|---------------- five\|---------------- six\|----------------	P.O.	Pull Off (legato )
1\|-10s12--or-10/12 2\|---------------- 3\|---------------- four\|---------------- 5\|---------------- 6\|----------------	s	Sliding (glissando) "/" - sliding upward "\" - sliding down
T ane\|---------------- 2\|---------------- 3\|-12---or--12t--- four\|---------------- v\|---------------- six\|----------------	T, + or	Tapping
1\|---------------- 2\|---------------- 3\|-two-x-x-2-x-x-ii-x four\|-two-x-10-2-x-10-2-x 5\|-0-x-x-0-x-x-0-x half dozen\|----------------	x	Fret-Hand Muting
ane\|---------------- ii\|-TP10- or 10tr - 3\|---------------- 4\|---------------- v\|---------------- 6\|---------------- sometimes as tr (disruptive with the trill notation right below)	TP	Tremolo Picking
	a smaller digit or a tiny note with a line across	Grace Note (Acciaccatura) A very brief note, as though brushed on the way to the master notation. A grace note takes its small amount of elapsing from the master annotation.
ane\|---------------- ii\|-----7tr8------- three\|---------------- four\|---------------- 5\|---------------- 6\|----------------	tr	Trill
1\|---------------- 2\|---------------- iii\|-----\i/-------- iv\|---------------- 5\|---------------- 6\|----------------		Dip Slightly pushing and releasing a whammy bar. The number near the symbol ways corporeality of pitch to lower.
		Inverted Dip The number is an corporeality of pitch to raise.
		Dive Diving a whammy bar.
		Swoop and Render
		Scoop Depressing the bar before stroking a note, and releasing information technology on stroking.
		Whammy Bar Bends
		Gargle (with a whammy bar)
	Capo	Capo Fret numbering begins from the capo.
		Choice Scrape
	three 5 half-dozen	Tupleto: triplet fiveplet sixplet
> 1\|---------------- 2\|-------12------- 3\|---------------- 4\|---------------- 5\|---------------- 6\|----------------	>	Accented note
		Fermata Freely increase notation duration.
		Dotted Note Dot placed to the right of the corresponding note lengthens the note by half its value. examples:
		Echo Signs Notes between these symbols are played repeatedly.
		Staccato Dot over or under the note. Staccato ways playing notes sharply by ways of shortening ringing duration of a marked note and leaving a silent gap before the next annotation, and then the rhythm remains unchanged.
	viii^va	Ottava Alta Notes on the staff forth the dashed line are played one octave higher. The reason to apply 8^va is to avert the staff to look likewise complex with a lot of highly located notes. Note This is related just to the staff, the numbers in the tablature remain unchanged and show genuine location on the fingerboard. Original and containing 8^va notation.
	8^rb	Ottava Bassa Notes on the staff forth the dashed line are played one octave lower than notated. The tab numbers remain unchanged as with 8^va next above. Original and containing 8^rb notation.