Piano Tablature /Guitar TablaturePiano tablature is really called a "staff." Piano uses two staffs -- one for high notes (treble staff) and one for low notes (bass staff). Only one of them is used for guitar
players, the treble staff. These charts show how the treble staff matches up with guitar tablature notation.
Although I write up songs for my students with guitar tablature notation, my GOAL is for them to become piano tablature -- treble staff -- readers. I have found that my guitar students (who ALWAYS prefer to play by ear and by tablature, without fail!) will plug along through their notereading book without too much complaining, as long as they have guitar tablature music to play. Months go by, with the notereading book carefully adding one note after another, starting usually with the open G or B string and branching out from there. Finally, two-thirds of the way through the book, the kids are reading down into the ledger notes below Middle C. Yay!!! They have really come a long way! But suddenly, the book's authors remember that we haven't visited treble B, C, and D for while, so suddenly, we have songs thrown at us again populated with these notes as well as the newer notes. And my students stumble around and say, "I've forgotten what that note is!" Oops! We should have been reviewing. This is definitely the fault of me, the teacher, and not the student! So now, I try to build a review song from earlier in the book into each week's lesson, and their knowledge will stay more solid. But also, I keep these piano tablature/guitar tablature notation sheets handy for students, at the beginning or end of their music notebooks, along with a piano keyboard sheet.
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