Blank Guitar Tab Paper

What it is

Blank guitar tablature paper: six-line staves, one line per string, with the high E string at the top and the low E at the bottom.

How to use it

• Print at 100% on A4 or US Letter.
• Write the fret number on the line of the string you play. 0 means open string.
• Notes stacked vertically are played together; read from left to right.
• Add simple symbols: h (hammer-on), p (pull-off), / and \ (slides), b (bend), ~ (vibrato).

Ideas

• Write down riffs and licks you invent or work out by ear.
• Notate your daily warm-ups and track the tempo next to each line.
• Write pentatonic and arpeggio patterns from the scale explorer into tab.

Related

Learn how to read tab in reading tab. Practise with the chromatic warm-up and pentatonic sequences. For bass, use bass tab paper.