Plain Lab · notebook
Guitar Tablature Notebook
Six lines for the strings paired with a five-line stave, one hundred and nine pages of it at a 2.47 mm pitch.
Specification
- Trim
- 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
- Pages
- 120
- Leaves
- 60
- Sheets
- 30
- Signatures
- 6 × 20pp
- Spine
- 6.86 mm
- Paper
- white
- Ruling
- tab
- Ruling pitch
- 2.47 mm · 7.00 pt
- Rows per page
- 70
Six lines run across the page for the strings, and a five-line stave sits above each one. Tablature marks where a finger goes on the neck; the stave above it can carry the same passage in standard notation, or carry nothing at all if the tab is doing the whole job that day.
The pitch is 2.47 millimetres between rule lines, seventy rows down the page, tight enough to fit more than one tab-and-stave pairing on a sheet without wasting it. One hundred and nine pages are ruled this way, plain paper for a working musician with nothing else printed on it.
A riff written down wrong on the tab line is still a riff you can play again badly. The stave above it is there for whoever reads it back later and was not in the room when it was written.
What is inside
- Tab and stave
- 109pp
- Six lines for the strings paired with a five-line stave, 2.47 mm pitch, seventy rows to the page.
- Reference
- 11pp
- Owner page, conversion tables computed from definitions, and emergency numbers checked against two independent sources.
The film
Page by page
A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.
Real pages
Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker
Books that sit alongside it
- Arabic and Jawi Handwriting NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Knitting and Crochet Chart NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Tian Zi Ge NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
- Shorthand NotebookAlso in Plain Lab
Questions
How is the page ruled?
Six lines for the strings, paired with a five-line stave above.
What is the pitch?
2.47 mm, seventy rows down the page.
How many tab-and-stave pages are there?
One hundred and nine.
How big is the book?
A5, one hundred and twenty pages, six sewn signatures of twenty.
Is it dated?
No, so it starts whenever the first riff does.
In the music of the harp which trembles round the world it is the insisting on this which thrills us.
