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