These were drawn using shapes in Word (Insert > Shapes > Oval).Īnyway, feel free to download my Word guitar tabs and use them in your own exercises, but don’t republish them on another website. These are my go-to music sheets for all of my guitar chords. To really mimic a guitar’s fretboard you need the fret markers at the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, twelfth, fifteenth and seventeenth frets. You can go to my downloads page for all the links to the blank music sheets, or go directly to the Guitar Tab PDF file. That took some tweaking of table cell’s height and width, I can tell you!īut that’s not all. The thing is, you need the rectangle formed by two adjacent strings and two adjacent frets to be wide and not very high if it’s supposed to visually represent a guitar’s fretboard. It took me ages getting everything set out with the right dimensions. Woo hoo! Once you have a page with all the strings and frets set out you can just print off as many copies as you want, do your exercises on them, and then print off some more.

It’s just a one page document and each the page contains 6 fretboard diagrams. So I decided to create a Word document template for guitar tablature. Each guitar exercise requires a new blank sheet of tablature (or simulated fretboard), so it quickly becomes a lot of work – even before you start the exercise.

Doing this once or twice is not too bothersome, but after drawing the tenth freehand fretboard I started getting annoyed with the process. Initially, I would just draw 6 horizontal lines across a blank sheet of paper, each horizontal line representing a guitar string and then maybe 15 vertical lines for the frets. If you are a learning guitarist (like me) and you are working through a book like the Guitar Fretboard Workout (like me!), you are going to need lots of sheets of blank tablature to do your exercises on.

Printable blank guitar tab sheets