Just go to Google and put in the name of a song and the word “lyrics” after it, and you’ll get exactly that. And sometimes if you put the word “tab” after it you’ll get either actual tablature or just chord grids. And then there are many other sites for finding tablature and for different categories of music. This is where you will find some of our favorite places to go to get tablature and songs.
Tablature is a written method that shows you how to play a song on the guitar note by note. We’ll show you how to find free tablature, tablature for sale, and how to find lyrics and chords on the web.
Video
Regular music notation tells you which notes to play, but tablature tells you exactly how to play the notes on a stringed instrument…which string to pick and where to fret it. There’s lots of free tab on the web, and you can access it to learn to play licks, solos or even entire songs, just the way your favorite guitarist played them. We’ll help you find free tab, but be aware that anyone can post tablature on the web, so not everything you find will be accurate. That’s why you may also want to buy tablature books from publishers who hire trained professional musicians to transcribe music.
We’ll also help you find blank tablature paper that you can print out, so that you can write down licks and tunes yourself.
Video
Regular music notation tells you which notes to play, but tablature tells you exactly how to play the notes on a stringed instrument…which string to pick and where to fret it. There’s lots of free tab on the web, and you can access it to learn to play licks, solos or even entire songs, just the way your favorite guitarist played them. We’ll help you find free tab, but be aware that anyone can post tablature on the web, so not everything you find will be accurate. That’s why you may also want to buy tablature books from publishers who hire trained professional musicians to transcribe music.
We’ll also help you find blank tablature paper that you can print out, so that you can write down licks and tunes yourself.
Wikipedia
Tablature
What is tablature?
These are called “lessons”, but they are really tablature with audio. There’s lots of them in many genres. Very well done.
Nice description of how to read tab.
How to read tablature, and how to convert standard notation to tablature
Some are tab, some are lyrics and chords. Lot of stuff.
Hundreds of tabs. Some have lyrics and chords only.
There are 12 audio/text/tab lessons on general guitar instruction and lots more on specific genres (jazz, metal, blues, etc.). However, each of the 12 leads to several more, so there are many free lessons here.
A few free tabs of popular songs, but it’s spotty.
There are thousands of pop and rock songs offered up as lyrics and chord letter-names and, in many cases, tab.
There are lots of tabs here for pop/rock tunes, if you’re willing to wade through endless popups and ads. Maybe I’m missing a direct way to do it…
I just went around in circles w/this one, never could find a tab.
Seems to be alist of other tab sites. They’re all bogus, countless popups, I never actually find a tab.
Lots of dead ends, the tabs that do exist have audio, but each is only a few bars long.
You have to install something to download the tabs.
A lot of pop/rock tunes on this one, tab/no audio, but many of them are lyrics w/chord-letter names, only a small percentage are tabs.
There’s real tab here, takes a lot of clicking to get to it.
Lots of guitar tablature here! Mostly rock.
Easy to get to the zillions of songs on this site, but they’re mostly lyrics w/chord letter names, and some have tab.
I can actually find lyrics w/chord letter names on this site, and an occasional (infrequent) tab.
Bluegrass
Acoustic
Bluegrass
Acoustic
In the “study tune” section there are excellent text/tab/audio lessons for specific bluegrass tunes. Also the “tablature” section has tab for many popular fiddle tunes arranged for guitar.
A couple of dozen good tunes tabbed out for free.
A couple of dozen good tunes tabbed out for free.
Dobro
Blues
General
Blues
General
Blues guitar tabs
Acoustic
Finger picking
Alternating thumb
Monotone thumb
Bottle neck (slide)
Open tunings
Electric
Modern BB-King
Bottle neck (slide)
Classical
Acoustic
Finger picking
Alternating thumb
Monotone thumb
Bottle neck (slide)
Open tunings
Electric
Modern BB-King
Bottle neck (slide)
Classical
Great place to go for tablature for dozens of classical guitar pieces. They have a lot, and it’s unusual to have tablature instead of standard notation for music. Many of the pieces can be listened to on midi files.
Country
Acoustic
Flat-picking (Carter style)
Finger picking
Electric
Chicken pickin’
Travis style
Modern country
Western swing
Lap steel
Pedal steel
Flamenco
Country
Acoustic
Flat-picking (Carter style)
Finger picking
Electric
Chicken pickin’
Travis style
Modern country
Western swing
Lap steel
Pedal steel
Flamenco
Has videos of great flamenco guitarists performing, and interviews. A lot of music and tablature.
Songs and licks in tablature and music notation. Some audio clips.
Jazz
Bossanova
Swing
Contemporary
Gypsy
Mariachi
Rock
Rockabilly
Classic rock
Jazz
Bossanova
Swing
Contemporary
Gypsy
Mariachi
Rock
Rockabilly
Classic rock
Over 100 free lessons with audio and tablature for classical rock and pop.
Metal
Punk
Grunge
Indy
Folk rock
Slack key (Hawaiian)
Metal
Punk
Grunge
Indy
Folk rock
Slack key (Hawaiian)