All of the acoustic guitar Tablature shown below is in TablEdit format. This program, which allows you to input tablature for many stringed and other acoustic instruments and to print it out, as well as play it through your computer's speakers and to export it as a Midi File, can be obtained in Demo form for free at TablEdit. This demo will allow you to play back TablEdit tab files; and you can now download in excess of 10,000 tunes in this format from the TablEdit library site. Registration details for the full version of the software can be found at the site. Do have a look at the TablEdit Demo, it will let you play and see the tablatures; the software is excellent. Please do play the midi files and/or download the TablEdit tablature for any of the tunes below, have fun playing them and let me know what you think - . You will need the full TablEdit program, or the new free TefView (see below) program, to be able to print and/or play these tablature downloads. Cheers and keep on pluckin'. 

Those downloading the Zipped versions of the tabs should then use 7-Zip, WinZip, PKZip, or a similar program, to unpack the files on your hard-drive. All tunes updated as at 16/01/2024.

: Download the new TablEdit File Viewer - 'TEFView' - a free viewer which will show you the TablEdit files/tunes in tab and/or music format and will allow you to both play them through your computer speakers and to print them:

TEFView for Windows - a free file-viewer to allow you to see, play, print and use all of the TablEdit (.tef) music files available on this site and elsewhere on the Internet. This version runs on Windows machines (Win-95, 98, ME, XP, NT, Win-2000, Vista, Win-7, Win-8, Win-8.1 and Win-10).
TEFView for Macintosh - a free file-viewer to allow you to see, play, print and use all of the TablEdit (.tef) music files available on this site and elsewhere on the Internet. This version runs on Mac machines (version PowerPC (from OS9 up to OSX Snow Leopard)).
TEFView for Macintosh - a free file-viewer to allow you to see, play, print and use all of the TablEdit (.tef) music files available on this site and elsewhere on the Internet. This version runs on Mac machines (version Intel (from OSX Leopard up to OSX Lion)).
TEFView for iOS devices - a free file-viewer to allow you to see, play and use all of the TablEdit (.tef) music files available on this site and elsewhere on the Internet. This version runs on Apple iOS devices (iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices).
TEFView for Android devices - a free file-viewer to allow you to see, play and use all of the TablEdit (.tef) music files available on this site and elsewhere on the Internet. This version runs on Android devices (phones, tablets and phablets running Android 3 and above).

[My Tunes] - [Friends' Tunes] - [Beginner's Tunes] - [Marcel Dadi & Others Tunes] - [Duet Tabs]

Should anyone feel like putting up videos of their playing of these tunes on YouTube then please do feel free to do so. It would be appreciated if you could acknowledge myself (Steve J. McWilliam (SteveMcBill)) as the tabber and also the relevant composer and arranger of the tunes. If you let me know they are up I will include a link to the video from this and other tab pages to ensure you obtain the maximum number of views/hits. Many Thanks.

Many of the tunes on this page can be seen playing in TablEdit on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0md259-P6GwpX7okCfMB1w/videos

A few of the tabs here can be heard on the YouTube Channel showcasing old recordings from the member of the Tape 'n' Tab Club (T'n'T) which were originally recoded on cassestte tapes - take a listen to the various play-lists here:
https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCEuu1wZ1moZaAt-Qb3tzT0A/playlists

It is an excellent medium because it shows exactly where to place your fingers to find the notes and these finger placements are often the best way to find the notes to make the movement of your fretting hand the easiest and simplest as well as the most economical and efficient. One of the major complaints about tablature used to be that it didn't show any timing value so you had to have heard the tune first before you could use the 'finger-map' of the tablature to play it. This is true NO MORE !! The newer software programs for computers allow you to enter tablature and have the timing printed along with the tab. Some, such as TablEdit, will even play back the tablature for you on the computer so that you can hear how the tune goes before you attempt to play it. Tablature usage has never been easier or more approachable. 

One of the other major advantages of tablature is in the use of altered and open tunings on the guitar (for tunings see here: https://www.stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/tunings.htm). Using normal/conventional music notation, every time you change the tuning on your guitar you then have to re-learn the notes on the fingerboard to be able to find them when they are being read from the dots on the printed page. Tablature is no different no matter what the tuning; it still shows the fret numbers which show where you are to put your fingers of your fretting hand (left for most of us!) onto the guitar neck/fretboard. A real advantage !! 

Have a go with the tablature. Download TablEdit from the site as shown above (it is free in a Demo form, and there is also a free file viewer/player/printer called TefView available from the TablEdit website, both of which which will play all of the more than 6,000 tabs on the site, including all those shown here), and try for yourself. Some tunes are for advanced players but a lot are for beginners, or intermediate players. If you have never played before, give it a try - if you painted by numbers when you were a kid, you can play guitar, after a bit of effort and practice, from numbers now !!

 Good luck and have fun !!

Steve's Links:

Steve's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveMcBill
Steve's Fandalism Channel: https://fandalism.com/stevemcbill
Steve's SoundCloud Channel: https://soundcloud.com/steve-mcwilliam

Tape 'n' Tab Club and Social Media:

The Tape 'n' Tab Club (TnT) and its members can be found on various social media sites - see below:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/guitartabtapentabclub
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tapentabclub?lang=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tapentabclub
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/TapenTabClub

Facebook and LinkedIn also have 'tapentabclub' pages too.

About My Copyrights:

All the music you find here is copyrighted and protected by law. I permit you to perform any of my original compositions / arrangements or to use any of them in your teaching, - but not to sell copies of them. I ask that you publicly acknowledge my authorship by name, in writing, if you provide program notes with your performance, and on the tablature if using it for teaching purposes, and to refer the listener or reader to this Web-page. If you record any original composition and sell your recordings, I ask that you notify me, and that you agree to negotiate with me (a reasonable fellow) for a share. Thank you. 

Should anyone feel like putting up videos of their playing of these tunes on YouTube then please do feel free to do so. It would be appreciated if you could acknowledge myself as the tabber and also the composer and arranger of the tunes. If you let me know they are up I will include a link to the video from this and other tab pages. Many Thanks.

Please note: These tablatures are provided for your own amusement, education and research only !! They must not be played in public, distributed, used in paid lessons or sold as single copies, in anthologies or on the web without express permission from myself and any other copyright holder. Note - the comment above reference YouTube is allowed.

To the best of my knowledge most of the tunes/arrangements/Tabledit (.tef) files shown here are out of copyright or the copyright belongs to myself, or I have been given permission to reproduce by the copyright holder. Where this is not the case the copyright of the original is shown where this is known. If this should not be the case, or you know that my attribution is incorrect, and the copyright owner wishes me to remove the tune/arrangement from the site, they should contact me in writing when I shall remove the offending item forthwith. Should they be happy for the tune to stay on the page but require acknowledgement then I shall be only too pleased to update the relevant entry(ies). Thank you.