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Tab Notes Teacher

January 30th, 2010

Tab Notes Guitar Teacher
Source: Month One Lessons

As part of the lessons plans, we provide you with downloads of each lesson. With each download you will get a pdf file which includes the notes and what we call “Tab Notes Teacher”. Tab Notes allow us to mark up the notation and staff just as a teach would to provide you with your lesson plan for the week.

Even though we give you detailed information in each Text portion of the lessen the Tab Note Teacher can add to this content giving you a richer experience. So with each lesson you will see 2 articles, for example:
It’s a Small World Text
It’s a Small World Score

Each .plf lesson file has 2 pages attached. The first page will give you all of the information in the song text file, which includes the:
The Lesson Text File Contains:

About This Lesson – This is an outline of the lesson plan

Learning Points – key elements you will focus on

About the Tab Notes – a short explaination on the tab notes

Articles You Should Read – brush up by reading thes article on our site

Music Theory – review the definitions of these items carefully

Goals For This Lesson – try to set goals for yourself – achieve as many as you can

What You Should Practice This Week – wrap up

What Do I Do With This PDF File?
After you download it you can open the file with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Make sure you have v6.0 or above. This is a free download and is available for both PC and Mac. Need to download this program. Here is a link where you can download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. If it comes up with the MacOS operating system, just click on the link –different operating system? and you can get it for PC too.

The reason you should have v6.0 or above is v6 is the first version that supports layers in pdf files and our Tab Notes are written in layers.

So if you have Reader v6.0 or probably v9.0 if downloaded the most recent version, just open the pdf file. Go to the top menu and select: View>Navagation Panels>Layers. This will bring a layers icon on the left-side tool bar. Now just click on the Layers Icon and you will see the file come up on the right side. Just click on the finle name and you will see 2 layers. One will say “Tab Notes” and the other just says “Layer 1″.

Layer 1 contains the musical score

Tab Notes contains the notes overlay that you can switch on and off.

Feel free to print one or both of these sheet and the text file if you like too. Put them in a 3-ring binder and you can save your Lessons for later review and reference.

The Lesson Score File Contains:

The notes of the song. In the upper diagram the song will be shown almost as it would in regular sheet music.

The second diagram shows the song with our Tab Notes Teacher layer turned on. This gives you useful tips, timing, explainations etc. to help you in your learning process.

At the bottom of each of the Lesson Pages you will see 3 linked texts. These are direct links to:

The pdf file for the Text and Tab Notes pages

The Guitar Pro File, which is the actual music file used to generate this song. To read more on this exciting portion of our lesson method go to our article on Guitar Pro Software.

The Third link will take you back to the Text portion of the Lesson.