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| SYMBOL | DESCRIPTION |
| h | Hammer onto note: 2h4 |
| p | Pull off of note: 4p2 |
| b |
1. Bend note less than a half step: 2b
2. Bend note to pitch: 2b4 3. Relax from bend: 4b2 4. Note already bent: b4 |
| r | Relax bend from note: 4r2 (not applicable to earlier tabs) |
| / |
1. Slide to note: /10
2. Slide from note to note: 7/10 3. Decending/accending bass note in a chord: A/g /f /e |
| \ | Slide down to note: 4\2 (not applicable to earlier tabs) |
| ~ |
1. Vibrato: 3~
2. Played with slide: 12~ |
| ( ) |
1. Ghost note: Note sounded, but not struck: (3)
2. Heavily muted note: (3) |
| " " | Theoretical note (usually a very high-pitched note altered digitally using a whammy pedal): 22b"28" (not applicable to later tabs) |
| x | Completely muted note |
| X | Strumming of all strings muted |
| P.M. | Palm Muting |
| N.C. | No Chord played |
| B.N. | Strumming Behind the Nut and in front of the tuning machine, or, for some guitars, including the Airline, behind the bridge. |
| W.S. | Played Without a Slide |
| T | Tremolo (quick up and down picking on one or more strings) |
| < | Quickening tempo |
| > | Slowing tempo |
| 8^ | Digital octave shift up (Whammy pedal, see EQUIPMENT / TECHNIQUE section) |
| 8v | Digital octave shift down (Whammy pedal or POG, see EQUIPMENT / TECHNIQUE section) |
| 8/8v | Harmonic doubling with lower octave |
| /8^ | Slide up one octave (Whammy pedal) |
| \8 | Slide down to natural octave (Whammy pedal) |
| 8~ | Unspecific octave shifting, in between 8 and 8^ |
| 8 | Return to natural octave |
| ` | Contextual note |
| * | A generic symbol defined individually; I have used it to mean knocking on the body of an acoustic guitar, a note played an octave higher, or a harmonic note. |
| SUBJECT | DESCRIPTION |
| Timing |
I tab timing using a simple system in which numbers represent downbeats and +'s represent upbeats:
Rhythm: 1 + 2 + 3 4 + 1 + 3 + 4 Words: Da-shing through the snow, on a one-horse o-pen sleigh.... If I do not define the timing of a song, it is often tabbed approximately and sometimes not at all. |
| Double Dash |
Each section of tab ends with a double dash (--). If a section ends in a single dash, it runs longer than the page permits and continues on the next line:
One line: e|------------------- B|------------------- G|-2p0--------------- D|-----2p0----------- A|---------3p0----0-- E|-------------3b----Broken into two lines: e|------------- B|------------- G|-2p0--------- D|-----2p0----- A|---------3p0- E|------------- e|------- B|------- G|------- D|------- A|----0-- E|-3b---- |