Musical notation - Guitar tabs
For purposes of playing guitar tabs are a natural choice (as opposed to classical musical notes ↗ are not ideal).
My tabs ↗ which follow the format described further can be found on Github ↗.
Tabs
The easiest choice, with no setup, is to create ascii tabs ↗ using a text editor.
There are many ways to create ascii tabs because they don’t have a fixed format. I chose the following order: meta-information, text with chords, fingerstyle.
Metainformation
May be empty. It does not contain the interpret or song name (those are in the file name). Can provide utility video/audio link
Official Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ
Thanks to <user> for transcription which inspired this TAB.
<address of the transcription>
Originally is played starting with Cm and low E tuned down to C
Tutorial on how to count bridge: https://youtu.be/GhlLtd19szw?t=332
If the tab is incomplete, write what is missing!
! missing chords
! bad formatting
! missing fingerstyle
Text
Text with easy chord progression might look as follows. If the progression is hard, then the chords can be put on a line above the respective text.
[Verse 1] Em Em D C, G H Em Em
So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trustin' who we are
And nothing else matters
[Violin solo]
Fingerstyle
Starts with guitar tuning, followed by what frets should be played. The bar lines should be equidistant. Any diviations from the beat should be described in words. Symbols used should be as described on the Wikipedia ↗.
[Solo]
e|-------------------|-------------------|-----0----0--------|-------------------|
B|-3-----3-----------|-------------------|---0----0--3-0-0---|------2--2-1-0-----|
G|-2b----2b-0---0-2-0|-0------------0-2-0|-2----2-------3-3-2|0h2p0-2--2-1-0-----|
D|-------------------|4-4-2-4-0-2--------|-------------------|-----2-------------|
A|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
Several programs
There is some software for writing the notation which I did not try.
- LilyPond ↗ is like latex for musical notation
- Melody Assistant ↗
- tabr ↗
- musescore ↗
- tab software list ↗