A quick question about reading TAB??

[Linus27]

Hi,

Somebody sent me an email asking me what this symbol ~ mean when reading TAB. Not being a TAB reader, I have no idea. I have searched the internet and found some great explanations on reading TAB but none of them explain what the ~ symbol means.

Does anyone know what it means??

Thanks for any help.

[Musky]

It means vibrato.

[Linus27]

[quote name='Musky' post='200759' date='May 16 2008, 10:01 PM']It means vibrato. [/quote]

Is that serious??

[queenofthedepths]

Yes!

[Linus27]

OK, thank you for your help.

[queenofthedepths]

For future reference, here's a full ASCII tab legend The majority of tabs you'll find online seem to use these symbols, even if the tabbers seem to have no idea about note duration!

L - tied note
x - dead note
g - grace note
(n) - ghost note
> - accentuded note
NH - natural harmonic
AH - artificial harmonic
TH - tapped harmonic
SH - semi harmonic
PH - pitch harmonic
h - hammer on
p - pull off
b - bend
br - bendRelease
pb - preBend
pbr - preBendRelease
brb - bendReleaseBend
\n/ - tremolo bar dip
\n - tremolo bar dive
-/n - tremolo bar Release up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
/n - tremolo bar return
-\n - tremolo bar Release down
S - shift slide
s - legato slide
/ - slide into from below or out of upwards
\ - slide into from above or out of downwards
~ - vibrato
W - wide vibrato
tr - trill
TP - tremolo picking
T - tapping
S - slap
P - pop
< - fade in
^ - brush up
v - brush down

[Linus27]

Thats excellent. I will pass this info on. Thanks for the help.