ActiveBass uses a subset of basic guitar tablature for its notation of musical examples:

Notational Elements

• Events - Events occur on a particular string at a particular fret location, and are represented by a number. In the example below, the first event is represented by a '3' on the fifth line down. This represents the 3rd fret on the 5th string. Events can be of many types - picks, hammer-ons (H), pull-offs (P), slides (S), bends (B), and vibrato. • Rhythm - Rhythm is denoted by measure numbers located at the bottom of each measure and by markers () indicating each beat in the measure. Events that occur above markers are on the beat. Events that are halfway between markers are on the off-beat (and so on). • Duration - The duration of an event is indicated by trailing lines () that sustain for the duration of the event. If the line sustains for the length of one beat marker, then the event is one beat in length (i.e. a quarter note)

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