blank paper

Guitar tablature, 12 per page

Six numbered lines, one per string, with no stave above them. US Letter portrait, 12 staves in all.

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Fig. 1 · US Letter portrait

The same paper, differently

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A4 portraitA4 landscapeUS Letter landscape

blank stavesFive lines and nothing else — no clef, no bar lines. The paper to write anything on.treble clefA clef on every stave, so a right hand or a voice part starts where it should.bass clefFor a left hand, a bass guitar, a cello or a trombone.alto clefFor viola, which reads almost nothing else.grand staffTreble over bass, braced, for anything played with two hands.staves with bar linesFour bars ruled across every stave, for writing rhythm into a fixed metre.stave and tablatureA treble stave over six tab lines, the pair most guitar parts are written on.