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How To Read Guitar Tabs

                              
 
             If you are going to start learning how to play guitar, you will soon find out that you are going to need to know how to read guitar tabs . Guitar tab is short for guitar tablature. It is a method of reading and writing music develop especially for guitar. A great majority of guitar players do not know how to read standard sheet music, and you don’t need to in order to become an accomplished guitar player. The first time you see guitar tab it may look confusing, but actually it is very simple to learn.
 How does it work?
            The diagram below is of a blank guitar tab sheet. it is basically a picture of the guitar neck. Each of the six lines represents one of the six guitar strings. The one on top is the thinnest string on the guitar, or 1st string, and the bottom line represents the fattest or 6th string. The letter at the beginning of each line is the note of that string, in other words, if you played the third string with no fingers on the string, better known as open, that would be a G.

         E———————————-
         B———————————-
         G———————————-
         D———————————-
         A———————————-
         E———————————-
     
           In this next example you’ll see some numbers on the tab sheet. These numbers represent the fret at which you would place your finger. So in other words, the first note you would play would be on the third string with your finger on the second fret. The next note would be on the second string with your finger on the third fret. The third note would be on the first string, at the fourth fret, and then the second string played open.

        E—————4———————
        B———3———-0—————-
        G—2———————————-
        D————————————-
        A————————————-
        E————————————-

     This next diagram shows a D chord in tab.
  
      E—-2—-
      B—-3—-
      G—-2—-
      D———
      A———
      E———

When the numbers are stacked like this it means they are played at the same time(strummed).

    Additional notations
       
        There are more notations you will find in tabbed music,some of the more common ones are:
          
       H= hammor on    
       P= Pull off
       /= slide up
       b= bend
       x= mute
       pm= palm mute
 
    Pros and Cons
 
      The biggest benefit of learning how to read guitar tab is that you will have the ability to learn how to play any song you want. Guitar tabs can be found for free on the internet to litarally any song you can think of. Any good guitar course will go over in more detail how to read tab. It really is a must if you want to progress in your guitar playing. The one draw back with guitar tabs is that it does not indicate the timing of playing the notes or chords. It is only a reference to what notes and chords are played. If you are trying to learn a song you will have to listen to the song to figure out the timing. It only takes a few minutes to understand how to read guitar tab, as where learning to read regular music notation is a very in depth process that takes a long time to learn.
 

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