| A classical guitar is slightly different in shape from an | | | | guitar tablatures are more meticulously structured and |
| ordinary guitar (i.e. rhythm guitar, bass guitar, | | | | they are much more complex and intertwined with |
| Hawaiian guitar, etc.) The fret board, also known as | | | | more uses of notes (i.e. C, Bb, G, A, F, F#, etc) than |
| the neck of the guitar, is slightly broader than that of | | | | others.If we track back the history of tablatures, |
| other guitars. As a result the strings are more | | | | they have been used in the Western world for the |
| distanced from each other. The guitarist must stretch | | | | last six centuries. They were mostly a horizontal grid |
| his fingers a bit more than when he is playing an | | | | read from left to right with letters and numbers |
| acoustic or an electric guitar. When it comes to the | | | | written over them signifying the construction of |
| string, the difference is that a classical guitar uses | | | | pitches, and rhythmic signs above. Then by the 17th |
| nylon strings instead of metal ones, making for a | | | | century various systems of tablatures existed in |
| mellower sound.Classical guitars are based on the | | | | Germany, Italy, Spain and France. Nowadays |
| classical mode of music and follow classically oriented | | | | tablatures, guitar tabs in particular, have vertical lines |
| instructions. But the modern day guitar tablatures | | | | which represent the strings of the guitar (no matter |
| follow a slightly different course from that of classical | | | | what kind of guitar it is), horizontal lines for the frets, |
| notations. Playing classical guitar is more inclined to | | | | and dots signifying the position of the figures. |
| figure work and plucking. Therefore, these classical | | | | |