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.
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
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!
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Peter:Thanks for a great web site and a very useful tool for us teaching guitar.
Christine:
Thank you so much for this site! I have just started teaching some really keen Y6 boys who want to play Scarborough Fair, and your version is perfect. I will now go and look at what other goodies you have!
Matt:
THIS SITE IS AMAZING!!I've been teaching guitar for about 5 years now, and I've only just found your website! (I could really have used it 5 years ago) :-)I teach at primary schools every week day for about 4 hours, so the beginner tabs you have are ideal. Thank you so much for your hard work getting these on the web, you have made many children very happy!!
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Lori, homeschool mom, songwriter/musician and private music teacher:
Just wanted to say "thank you" for this site and for allof your dedication and hard work! I have literally combed the internet for months on end to find free and "doable" resources for my young students and for my own children, whom I have homeschooled for nine years. I will be returning to this site over and over again from here on out and am excited to presentsome of the tools I found today on here to my voice and piano students later this week! My thirteen-year old son is happily, as I type, working with the guitar chord sheets I just printed for him! Wish I'd found you earlier! Thanks a million, and God bless--
Dylan:
Just wanted to express my overwhelming joy in findingyour web site! :D Lots of good info!! My wife and I own our own teaching studio in Texas and I am always looking for new songs to teach my beginner guitar students. You've done a wonderful job of providing great tunes with ACCURATE sheet music/TAB! Your web site is wonderful! Thank you so much!! Many blessings...
Bob:
I am a "retiree" and brand new guitar student. I have used your guitar tabs for Shenandoah and Amazing Grace, and find it exciting to hear real music coming out of my guitar for the first time.
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Becky:
A thousand thanks for your beginning piano and guitar songs. I've already printed several for my children, including the Pretty Little Horses TAB and Carol of the Bells for piano. What a wonderful resource!
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Lin:
Thank you for a most excellent site. I am a classical guitar teacher, who endeavors to cover chords and fingerstyle as well.I especially liked the printable Celtic music, as some of my teenage students enjoy it!Thank you, again.
Sylvain:
Stumbled across your website by accident-slash-chance and it instantly became helpful... I sort of have to prove myself as a primary music teacher. Hasn't been easy, but I love the work. I found great ideas for my guitar unit on your site, as I didn't know where to begin. Thanks to you I will survive my next 6 weeks. I also teach choir to middle school, and I love your little morning warmups. Looking forward to more of that in the future. Keep up the great work, it is very inspirational for us beginner teachers.
Joy:
I am a missionary wife living in Spain... I also am teaching guitar to 2 adults, and have run across the same problem. The Spanish material is all very complicated very quickly so many of my students would become discouraged. So, just writing to say thank you for all the work you´ve put into this and I´ll be using some of your pieces and certainly the advice to keep improving my teaching skills.