Free Guitar Tablature Paper for Teachers

Free guitar tablature paper is a necessary tool for the guitar teacher! Check out these four sizes of blank free guitar tabs -- they are offered in different sizes so you can choose what works best for you. Just because a student can't read standard notation yet is no reason for them not to play actual songs. Show your beginning guitar player how to read tab during their first lesson, and it will be for them a "Eureka!" moment -- as exciting as discovering how to decipher Morse code -- but so much easier! Reading guitar tablature is really fun. You may worry that you won't be able to wean a student off of it. Well, I read both standard notation and guitar tab, and find that they both have their uses! Just be sure you are bringing your beginning guitar player's notereading along with a beginning guitar book that slowly teaches notereading (with no tablature on the page) and they will do fine.



Download printable free guitar tablature paper16 measures to the page



Download 28-measure printable free guitar tabs sheet



Guitar tab sheet 30 measures to the page



Here is guitar tab together with treble clef

I have one nine-year-old guitar student who claims he doesn't read yet (and his mother agrees). He cottoned on to guitar tab right away...piano notation, standard notation would have been much MUCH harder.

Guitar can be a good choice for a student who is a slow or non-reader. On piano, ten fingers. On guitar, one pick. For starters, anyway...later on, finger-picking won't seem so overwhelming, especially if you start with a super-easy chord accompaniment such as my version of Down in the Valley

So do your young guitar students a favor, and write songs out for them on tab sheets! Check out Pizza, Please, (my version of Hot Cross Buns) for a super-easy guitar song for beginners.

The tab sheet with treble clef staff is my personal favorite, because producing a piece of music using both staff types allows any other musician to join along. When there is a sister or a brother (or grandma, or dad, or...) in the family who also plays an instrument or sings, well, they will all want to get into the act!