On 06-13-95 Black Fox #1 @1510026*1 wrote to Grand Wizard #1 @1610014*...

 BF> hmm...well, what might occasionally happen is rather than 5 lines of
 BF> music it
 BF> would just have a line for each drum...like
 BF>
 BF> RIDE   -----------------------------------------
 BF> SNARE  -----------------------------------------
 BF> BASE   -----------------------------------------
 BF>
 BF> HI-HAT -----------------------------------------
 BF>
 BF> but it still uses music, with musical phrases, rythm, it even connects the
 BF> notes...its just changing the lines...while tab shows you what fingering...
 BF> music for clarinetts doesn't have the fingerings for each note it shows....

Ok, in defence of all guitarists (me included), most tablature (such as that in
GFTPM and Guitar School, etc . . .) has the notes above it, so that shows what
the timing, etc . . . While the tab on the bottom shows what fingering to use,
because you can play a G on the 3rd fret E-string or the 8th fret B-string,
but rather than screw around with some impossible fingering at the bottom of the
neck the tablature will show the guitarist the way it is correctly played.
Also those two notes may be the same, yet they do sound slightly different. Lets
face it, a G on a nickel wound string will sound slightly different than a G on
a steel string even if they are the same note, and octive.
TAB simply is a way to transfer, visually, the correct way to play it on a
guitar. (or lute or mandolin or any other fretted instrument). There really
isn't a equivalent possible for drums or any other instrument.
Viva-la-tab
buh-bye

for drums would be a big circle

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