SIMPLE — POWERFUL

Harmonica Tabbing Software

• Simple to use — if you can play a phrase, you can use Fab Tabs.
• No music theory needed — built for players who learn by ear, not by theory.
• Live tab detection — play a phrase and your tabs appear on screen.
• Real audio — your actual playing — tone, bends and all — not computer-generated harp sounds.
• Position transposing — 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 12th
• One-time purchase — no subscriptions or recurring fees

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Main Features

• Simple to use. Who needs complicated? If you can play a phrase, you can use Fab Tabs.
• No music theory needed — It’s built for players who learn by ear, not by theory (like me). Just play — and you’ll pick up lots very practical musical information naturally as you go.
• Real audio — your actual playing — tone, bends and all — not computer-generated harp sounds.
• Live tab detection — play a phrase and your tabs appear on screen.
• Save Real Audio / Tabs — a shareable, playable file — This one’s my favourite. It captures everything in a single file — your tabs and your harp audio — and plays it back exactly as you played, lighting up each note as it goes. Perfect for sharing licks online, for teachers handing a lesson straight to a student, and for building your own library of licks and melodies you can recall in a click.
• Position transposing — see the same lick in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 12th position, and exactly which harp and holes you’d use to play it.
• Playback tempo & loop — hear your actual harmonica, slow it down or loop it.
• Scale degrees (the Number System) — see the musical intervals (1, ♭3, 5, ♭7…) in green below your tabs, so you understand why a lick works — not just where to play it. Includes a built-in plain-English primer on this extremely useful method.
• Live piano keyboard — a visual, playable reference that shows how the harmonica maps to standard notes; great for working tunes out and for teaching.
• Bend Helper: a harmonica-friendly visual tuner to zero in on targeted bends.
• Full harmonica tab notation — blow and draw holes, bends, and overblows/overdraws, clear and colour-coded.
• All 12 keys, pre-calibrated — tuned for how harmonicas actually behave, with optional custom calibration you can save, export, and import.
• Save & print Tabs — export to Word, Pages, or Google Docs. — print for the stage or your students.
• Works with all 10 hole, standard-tuned (Richter) diatonic harmonicas
• Special Tunings: Write and convert tabs on — Natural Minor, Country-tuned, Parrott-tuned (7 draw flattened)