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What Do R Mean In Bass Guitar Tabs?

im 100% bass guitar player noob just start so yea, what do r mean next to a number on tabs for EXP: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/f/foo_fighters/wheels_ver2_btab.htm please dont say bass is noob yes i kno id rather play regular guitar but yea i got offered to play bass and also how do i do it?

Public Comments

1. See, that's the number one problem with tabs. I've been playing guitar for 17 years, bass for 10, and it took me a long time to catch on to this. Any moron with a computer can type out tabs and upload them to a tab site. It doesn't matter if they're right, the fact that there are more songs than skilled musicians willing to tab them out means you end up with a lot of stuff like this. R doesn't mean anything. I think the guy who wrote that meant it to mean repeat. Actually, an R in tabs usually means release, as in "bend and release," which is when you bend a note up and then let it back down. You have found bad tabs and don't yet have the eye to recognize that. I'm sorry. Nothing more I can do to help you here.
2. Tablature Legend ---------------- h - hammer-on p - pull-off b - bend pb - pre-bend r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately) /\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere") s - legato slide S - shift slide - natural harmonic [n] - artificial harmonic n(n) - tapped harmonic ~ - vibrato tr - trill T - tap TP - trem. picking PM - palm muting \n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip \n - tremolo bar down n/ - tremolo bar up /n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip = - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls <> - volume swell (louder/softer) x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash Misc Legend ----------- | - bar || - double bar ||o - repeat start o|| - repeat end *| - double bar (ending) : - bar (freetime) $ - Segno & - Coda Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths