Techniques and articulations

Tabula supports the playing techniques and articulations you’d expect from a tab editor. Most are a single keystroke applied to the note or beat at the cursor; all of them are also in the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and the in-app reference (?).

String techniques

These apply to the note on the active string of a tab staff:

Technique	Key	Notes
Hammer-on / pull-off to next	H	Tabula infers hammer vs. pull from the pitch direction and draws the slur to the next note on that string.
Bend (cycle preset)	B	Cycles through half-step, full-step, and release, then clears.
Slide to next	/	Slides into the next note on the string.
Tie to next	=	Ties the note into the next note on the same string.
Palm mute	P
Let ring	L
Dead (muted) note	M
Vibrato (cycle)	V	Cycles vibrato width, then off.

The technique wheel

For techniques that don’t have a dedicated key — including the metal-oriented ones like pinch harmonics, natural harmonics, and tremolo picking — open the technique wheel with Alt+T (or double-click a note). It’s a radial menu of the techniques available for the note under it.

Beat-level articulations and dynamics

These apply to a whole beat (all the notes in it), and are reached from the command palette:

• Staccato, accent, and slur grouping.
• Dynamics — cycle a dynamic mark on the beat through pp · p · mp · mf · f · ff · fff, then off. The mark applies to every note in the beat.

Articulations affect playback

Techniques and dynamics aren’t just notation — they’re carried through to playback, so a palm-muted, accented passage sounds the way it reads.