For 10-hole diatonic harmonicas
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Tab-Grabber was the long-shot idea: could you lift a solo straight off a finished recording — harmonica, sax, trumpet, clarinet — and have the tabs written for you? Nobody had done it — I accepted the challenge. Both ideas grew from my own needs and curiosity — and every feature is one I actually use.
— Roly Platt
“I’ve been playing thirty years and this tool is showing me what I’ve only been able to hear. Worth it for that alone.”
— Jay Williams
Fab Tabs
“Played a lick it was wrote it out for me (and transposed it). Big time saver with my teaching.”
— Randy Klein
Fab Tabs
What It Does Features Who It’s For Technical Updates
Fab Tabs captures and records your live harmonica — writing tabs in real time — all transposable and now instantly shareable with Lick-Share. Create a shareable link that opens a full-featured Fab Tabs player — hear and see the tabs. Slow it down. Any one with a browser can open, and study your ideas. Post you licks on Facebook and more.
Play back your real harmonica recordings. Slow them down. Watch the tabs and keyboard highlight your notes.
Whether you’re learning a lick or melody, teaching position theory, or sketching out parts for a gig — Fab Tabs does the work.
What it does
Fab Tabs listens while you play and writes the tabs for you — bends and overblows included. Then it plays your real recording back, lights up each note on the tabs and keyboard, and lets you slow it down, transpose it, and save it to share or teach from. Whether you’re capturing a lick, learning a melody, or sketching parts for a gig — Fab Tabs does the work.
A few more things it does
- Scale degrees (the Number System) shown under your tabs, so you see why a lick works.
- Live piano keyboard — a visual reference from harmonica holes to standard notes.
- Bend-Aid — a harmonica-friendly visual tuner for nailing your bends.
- Harp-Beats — see how your own playing maps to the metronome
- Full tab notation — blow, draw, bends and overblows, clear and colour-coded.
- All 12 keys, pre-calibrated — with optional custom calibration you can save and import.
- Save & print tabs — export to Word, Pages or Google Docs.
- Special tunings — Natural Minor, Country and Parrott.
- Web version (beta) for phone and tablet — same licence key, nothing to install.
Who it’s for
Built for players who learn by ear and by theory — from beginners playing simple blow-and-draw melodies right through to gigging pros tabbing out horn lines. Students see how holes, scale degrees and the keyboard all connect; teachers get a triple display to explain it; pros capture and save their parts for the next show.
Technical
- Runs in your browser — no install. Mac, Windows and Linux (Chrome or Firefox recommended).
- Best on a desktop or laptop. Phone and tablet work via the web version (beta).
- Playing style — optimised for lip pursing and tongue blocking using clean single notes.
5-day free trial
Try the whole thing before you buy. One-time licence — no subscription, ever.
Already bought Fab Tabs? You always have the latest version at no extra cost.
Go to My Account → Downloads
Open your Fab Tabs order, and click Download Fab Tabs — that link always serves the newest version. Open the file and enter your original licence key to activate.
