https://banjobenclark.com/lessons/how-to-read-mandolin-tab-mandolin-beginner
If you’re gonna learn to pick on the mandolin, it sure helps to know how to read tabs. There are two basic parts of reading tabs: 1) The notes themselves, 2) The timing of each note!
Question for you @BanjoBen or anyone else for that matter… at around 3:10 in this video when you are working through measure 11 - why does the quarter note rest get a broken stem as opposed to a stem that goes all the way to the rest mark. It seems like that contradicts the rule about stems that apply to notes being played where a broken stem indicates a half note and full stem that indicates a quarter note. Hopefully that question makes sense… and I apologize for my ignorance if I am missing something basic here or just overthinking it in general (a common issue for me). Thanks all!
Great question, that’s just the way the TablEdit software does it, which can be frustrating at times. It is a quarter note rest.