This reposiroty contains raw ASCII-tab. There also is a repository with preprocessed data (html for offline use) and the processed website with songs.

To report problems please open a new issue. I welcome pull requests with new songs (see requirement below).

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New songs

To add a new song or propose changes create a fork, edit your version, and then create a pull request.

The required format is .tab. It is a free-form format, however, the tabs should conform to the following rules for conssitency.

• start with properties in format: <property>: <value>
  • source stands for the original source of the tab (even if it was changed later)
  • video or audio serves as a reference (or play-along)
  • note is extra information
• properties are followed with two empty lines
• remainder consist of the song and [Fingerstyle] section
• song consists of parts, where every part is delimeted with [<name>] and its content is indented with 4 spaces
  • part content has chords and text
  • chords are either after the part name (if text is easy) or above the text
  • text should contain 2 or 3 spaces of there is a middle or big break in the singing
  • word in the text should contain - if it is important to emphesise/prolong the syllable after the symbol
  • [3x] and similar signify that something should be repeated
  • if something is unknown, then ? may be used in place of chords
  • if something may be incorrect, then <something>? may be used to signify that it should be checked
• if part name contains [repeat <name>] then it refers to a part with <name> that was played already
• if part name repeats but has different contents, then they should be numbered, e.g., [Verse 1] and [Verse 2].
• [Fingerstyle] section contains more precise instructions on how to play the song
  • parts of this section copy the parts in the song, but some may be missing

Song may be in the following states:

• Tabs are in the respective language directory of the repository (english songs in english directory)
• Incomplete tabs are in the incomplete directory
• Complete melodies / solos (without rest of the song) are in the melodies directory

Symbols

Symbols for ASCII-tab from Wikipedia

Symbol 	Technique
h 	hammer on
p 	pull off
b 	bend string up
r 	release bend
/ 	slide up
\ 	slide down
v 	vibrato (sometimes written as ~)
t 	right hand tap
s 	legato slide
S 	shift slide
* 	natural harmonic
[n] 	artificial harmonic
n(n) 	tapped harmonic
tr 	trill
T 	tap
TP 	tremolo picking
PM 	palm muting (also written as _)
\n/ 	tremolo arm dip; n = amount to dip
\n 	tremolo arm down
n/ 	tremolo arm up
/n\ 	tremolo arm inverted dip
= 	hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
<> 	volume swell (louder/softer)
x 	on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o 	on rhythm slash represents single note slash
·/. 	pick slide

Guitar theory

• Neck patterns
• Chord names

Given the main note of the major scale (1M) or of the minor scale (1m) the following pattern gives which chords are major, minor, or diminished.

A|-*m----*m-*M----*M---|
E|-1m----*d-1M---------|

C maj

  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15
e|*--*-----5-----*-----*--1-----*-----*--4-----5-|
B|*--1-----*-----*--4-----5-----*-----*--1-----*-|
G|5-----*-----*--1-----*-----*--4-----5-----*----|
D|*-----*--4-----5-----*-----*--1-----*-----*--4-|
A|*-----*--1-----*-----*--4-----5-----*-----*--1-|
E|*--*-----5-----*-----*--1-----*-----*--4-----5-|

• maj - prima, tercie, kvinta
• min - tercie-1
• sus2 - tercie-2
• sus4 - tercie+1
• aug - kvinta+1
• dim - tercie-1, kvinta-1
• 7 - ++septima
• 7maj - ++septima+1