Some Things About Tablature
What you will find on this site is the easiest to read
Tablature that I know how to make using a word processor. As I explained
at the start, I'm not a computer guy and I don't use Tablature software.
It seems like just about anyone who writes Tab. can make up his own thing and
put his own twist on "HIS TAB." in order to be unique. Learning
to finger pick guitar using finger picks is hard enough without having to learn
unnecessary things like how to read Tablature. So I promise to
keep Tablature as simple as possible so you can concentrate on picking and not
what the tablature means.
For example, some of the other guys right hand Tab. is based on what has
traditionally been used in classical guitar. With this kind of Tab. the
fingers of the right hand are assigned different letters. Thumb = p;
1st or index finger = i; 2nd or middle finger = m; 3rd or ring finger =
a.
Sorry folks- but that's too complicated for me! I'm just a ordinary regular guy - simple minded I
guess, and I don't speak a foreign language. Some of those letters
don't mean a thing to me! (It's CLASSICAL guitar so I'm assuming that
those letters come from a language that I don't speak at all.)
Please!!! Give me a brake! K I S S (Keep It Simple
Stupid) sounds like a good rule of thumb to me!
Others Tablatures that I've seen try to put their little twist on it by even
assigning colors to the fingers. Sorry
- but that's too confusing too!!! It's
interesting to me because when they explain what the colors mean they say for
example "this color" = 1st finger, "that color" = 2nd
finger" and so on. So why not just Keep It Simple Stupid and
just use a "1" for the first finger and a "2" for
the second, instead of further complicating the learning process with
unnecessary stuff. (Don't get me wrong! I understand why they use
colors, and it has it's place with some applications, but it's just not
necessary for someone to learn to finger pick.) What you want to be
trying to do here is to learn finger picking. Your mental energies should
be going toward that task and not toward trying to figure out what the
Tablature means. What you will find for the right hand on my web site is
this;
T = Thumb; 1 = 1st finger; 2 = 2nd finger; 3 = 3rd finger.
To me.....that's simple! I can understand that
pretty quick!