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.
