Tablature

Reading and Writing Tab

If you are a beginner and are not familiar with reading tablature, read the Tablature Explained Web Page or the plain text The Guide to Tab Notation (33K). It explains the various symbols you will come across and suggestions on writing tab as well.

The On-Line Guitar Archive (OLGA)

The OLGA has closed!

Due to threats of legal action from the Harry Fox Agency, the OLGA has closed down and is no longer offering updates to the archive. For complete details on what has happened, please visit the OLGA home page at www.olga.net.

Searching the OLGA

Simple! Enter either the song or artist's name right here (if you're having problems, try leaving out words like "the" and "a"):

Browse the OLGA

Browse by Artist's Name

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Browse by Hierarchy (Quantum Realms)

Other Mirror Sites

These are all mirror sites of the OLGA broken down by physical location (but just because sites aren't physically near you, they can still be quite fast). If you get a message like "unable to access document" the site is most likely too busy.

United States

Other Locations

Other Tab Archives

Tab of the Week

The Band Guitar Tablature Directory - Links to tabs sites dedicated to specific artists, with ratings.

Derrick's Guitar Tablatures - Mostly rock/alternatives tunes. Accepts requests.

CAGTP - Mostly alternative tunes.

Fresh-Tabs - A growing tab collection of recent songs.

Classic Lyrics Server - Lyrics for classic rock tunes.

underGROUND Guitar Archive - Links to tab pages devoted to a particular artist, plus OLGA links.

GuitarTabs.com

COWPIE Bunkhouse - Home page for the COWPIE archive (country music, which is part of the OLGA) which contains information on the newsletter.

The Online Guitar College - Links to tab sites for specific artists, with ratings.

MAP Rock Guitar Tab - Metal, alternative, and punk rock tabs.

Guitar Tab Mailing List - This list plans to deliver a few tabs daily, mostly alternative, hard rock, classic rock, and blues. To subscribe, send email to tatarowicz@classic.msn.com.

TabExchange - A mailing list for distributing guitar tabs. To subscribe, send email to tabexchange@yahoo.com (no special format needed)

Harry's Blues Lyrics Online - Lyrics and sound clips.

Tabland - Verified tabs, mostly hard rock/alternative.

Tab City - Verifies all tabs before posting.

Michael's Kitchen - Chord charts and lyrics for a variety of songs.

The Guitar Tab Page - Mostly rock/alternative tunes.

Sion's Online Guitar Archive - A collection of rock and alternative tabs.

Quality Tabs - Some alternative/pop tabs that are verified before posting.

Zappp Guitar Archive - Mostly rock tabs, including some russian artists.

Rock Tabs Online - Hard rock guitar tabs.

Guitar Tabs Online - Contains a few hundred tabs of mostly rock/alternative songs.

On-line Tabs - Mostly acoustic songs.

Dave's Tab Archive - Mostly rock/alternative tunes.

Punk Guitar Archive

Metaltabs

Metal-Hardcore Tab Page

Ozzytabs.com - Ozzy Osbourne tabs.

Guitarra - Tab resources (in Spanish)

Alex's Tabs Page - Mostly alternative artists.

Alternative Guitar Corner

Tab-Man's Guitar Tabs - Mostly alternative/rock.

Tommy's Guitar Tab Archive - Mostly rock and alternative Songs, most verified.

Max's Guitar Tab - Tabs for Hendrix, Cream, Beatles, Santana, and more.

Alternative Guitar Tabs

Luke's Modern Rock Tabs

Gilligan's Guitar Tablature Archive - Mostly alternative/rock.

Best Tab Central - Mostly alternative tunes.

Tab Heaven

Xclusive Guitar Tabs - A small tab collection of alternative/rock tunes with a weekly addition.

HeX-TaB - Modern rock tunes

Indie Rock Guitar Tabs - Links to various tab sites for indie bands.

Christian Alternative Guitar Archive

Rockin' With the Cross - Christian guitar and bass tabs.

Jars of Christian Guitar Tabs - A large archive of Christian guitar and bass tabs.

Christian Guitar Music

The Gospel Music Archive

Oh Canada Tab Archive - Tabs for only Canadian artists.

The All Australian Guitar Tab Page

Music Tab Kingdom - Tabs for Israeli artists.

Finnish Guitar Tab and Lyrics

The Ultimate Band List

The Ultimate Band List has a listing of band related pages that contain guitar tablature which include some tablature you won't find in the OLGA. Look under 'listings be resource'.