Creating Tabs Lesson by lmofle

Creating Tabs for this site:

After seeing a lot of people have problems getting their tabs to align 
correctly, I though I would offer some advice:


1-
If you use Microsoft Word or some other Word Processor (or 
WordPad/Notepad for that matter) make sure that you use a fixed font. 
This means that the all the letters are the exact same spacing. Using a 
True Type font is the opposite. Times New Roman is an example of this 
and if you make a capital A the spacing difference between that and a 
small “a” is different. 

2-
Use the space bar to move your chords above the words. DO NOT USE TAB 
key. I have found this messes up the alignment as well.

3-
Try to put the chord EXACTLY where it changes in the song. And example 
would be…


         E                         A               E 
It was November the first, back in Nineteen Eighty Nine
  E                                    B
I opened a show for a bonafide hero of mine
     E                           A
Ever since I was a kid, I bought everything he did
  E                            A
I learned every lick and every line
         E                  B                E             
And that honky tonky hero became a friend of mine


Notice I have the first E over the “v” in November because in this 
song the emphasis chord hits on that part of the verse. The same is 
true for the B chord over “became”. You don’t change to a B chord 
until be“came”.


As I think up more, I will add it…