Masters of Music

I was recently looking for some guitar tab books for heavy metal bands, but the big name tab publishers don’t seem to offer much except Metallica and old school mainstream metal. Then I happened to come across a website called Sheet Happens that sells high-quality print and digital guitar tab books for bands with some […]

Last month Scribd added sheet music to their ebook subscription service, which costs $8.99 per month. Their collection of sheet music contains a bunch of stuff for guitar and piano, but they have sheet music for just about everything, including drums, brass instruments, woodwinds and other fretted and stringed instruments. When I first saw this […]

Last week I posted about a Pentatonic Tapping Lick Lesson from YouTube based on the E Minor Pentatonic scale. It’s a fun lick to learn and is good for practicing skipping strings with tapping. This week I found a video lesson on YouTube with a really cool sweep picking and tapping lick. The video is […]

YouTube can come in handy when you want to learn new guitar techniques and note pattern combinations to experiment with to get different sounds. The videos are nice because they give a visual representation to work with instead of just having to rely on an audio file. Plus you get a chance to see the […]

Since posting the list of music notation software for writing guitar tablature, I’ve been trying some of the different free programs to see which one works best. First I tried MuseScore 2.0, and I might circle back to using it again later, but I found it cumbersome to add tablature symbols like slides and pull-offs […]

With the rise of tablets and smartphones, there are new ways to store and find your favorite sheet music and have it readily accessible in the palm of your hand at anytime. Guitar tabs used to have to be printed out on paper to be useful, but not anymore. There are dozens of apps designed […]

Yesterday I posted a list of music notation software with support for tablature. I wanted to test a few of the free options to see which one offers the best support for creating and importing guitar tablature. MuseScore is first on the list, and is a good choice because it offers a lot of features […]

Below is a list of the best free and paid music notation software with support for guitar tablature. I wanted to find some free software to easily create guitar tab snippets to post on this website alongside tutorials. A lot times I’ll come across a cool lick or riff mentioned in a video or lesson […]