In classroom guitar it’s important to understand the benefits of tablature and how to use it in your guitar curriculum as a tool to transition to standard notation.  Some of the great benefits of tablature include learning rhythmic values, get comfortable with notes in a given position, play songs in an alternate tuning and more.

And by the way, did you know that guitar music was originally written using tab? In this week’s post Mike Christiansen discusses many of these benefits and why it’s important to implement tablature into your guitar curriculum.

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