Tunefox

The Future of Tablature Photo by Ryan Leach Learning to read music outside of the realm of classical or jazz music on instruments such as guitar, mandolin, banjo and Dobro, more often than not, involves learning how to read tablature.  Tablature is a written notation where the lines on the page represent the strings of a given instrument and the music notation is presented as a number based on the player’s finger position on the instrument’s frets.  While many aspiring musicians may assume that written music in the form of tablature is a relatively modern invention, the use of tablature to notate music can be traced back to the fifteenth century where it was used for the lute and Baroque guitar.  Although the exact method for representing music in the form of tablature has changed and been modified slightly over the centuries, the basic idea has remained fairly consistent.  However, when new technologies arise, so do new innovations.  In the 1980s,