Harmonica Tabbing — Notation — Sharing Platform
What’s new in version 2
- Detailed music notation. Full score (with or without tabs) with a click.
- Bars and Score modes. Play along with the click track. Your tabs land in their bars. One click turns them into both harmonica tabs and full notation, with swing, triplets and grace notes as you choose.
- Save Playable Score. Notation, tabs and your recording inside. Play, slow down, loop.
- Keyboard tabbing option – captures your timing.
- Practice tools. Bend-Aid for bends and improved pitch control. Harp-Beats for playing in time.
- Easier to use. All new interface. Tab size control, scale degrees under each tab, and a new help guide.
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Features
- Bars and Score. Record with the click track. Your tabs land in their bars. One click switches between tabs, bars and full notation, with swing, triplets and grace notes as you choose.
- Special tunings — Paddy, Minor, Country, PowerBender and Parrott tuned.
- Save Playable Score. Full notation, including tabs and your actual recording inside. Play, slow down, loop, learn.
- Export Score files — to MusicXML, MXL and MIDI. Import into most music software and DAWs.
- Scale degrees (the Number System) — shown under your tabs.
- Live piano keyboard — a visual reference from harmonica holes to standard notes.
- Bend-Aid — a harmonica-friendly tuner for nailing bends and pitch.
- Harp-Beats — watch and record how your own playing maps to the metronome.
- Full tab notation — blow, draw, bends and overblows, clear and colour-coded.
- Save & print — export to Word, Pages or Google Docs.
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 — best results favour cleaner single notes. A chord registers as the single dominant note detected.
Who it’s for. Whether you learn by ear or by theory, whether you’re picking out simple blow-and-draw melodies or a gigging pro writing out horn lines, the way Fab Tabs lays things out works for you. Students see how holes, scale degrees and the keyboard connect. Teachers get all three on screen at once to explain it. Pros capture their parts and save them for the next show.
