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Intro Guitar Tutorial – How To Play Guitar Tabs
Learning how to play guitar tabs is one of the first steps as a beginner guitar player.
Guitar Tabs are the fastest way to learn to play a familiar song, solo and particular guitar lick. Since most of us Learn Guitar so that we can play our favorite songs it makes sense that beginners are often eager to pick up this skill.
In this article I am going to share with you how to play guitar tabs in three steps: One, understanding what A Guitar tab is, two, how to read the tab and three the fastest way to use tablature to learn a full song.
Understanding Tab
Most beginners find understanding tab a heck of a lot easier then learning to read music.
Example of Basic Guitar Tab:
e——–
B——–
G——–
D——–
A——–
E——–
Each one of the lines on tab matches up with one of the 6 strings on your guitar. The top line corresponds to the bottom for first string on your guitar (the high e), while the bottom line of tab corresponds to the top or 6th string on your guitar (low E).
How to Read Guitar Tab
Guitar Tabs are just numbers placed on each line like the example below. Here’s a very simple tab for the E chord.
e—0—-
B—0—-
G—1—-
D—2—-
A—2—-
E—0—-
The number correspond to the fret you press down on that particular string. For this tab you would be playing: 2nd fret A string, 2nd Fret D string and first fret of the G string. The other 3 strings (E, B and e) are strummed open which is what the 0 means on the tab.
You would know this is a chord because the numbers are all on top of each other in a line. If you say something like this:
e———–
B———7-
G———–
D———–
A—–5—–
E-3———
You would be picking individual strings. In this case it would be the 3rd fret of the low E, followed by the 5th fret of the A string and finally the 7th fret on the B string.
While there are other symbols you can run into this is the basics of how to read guitar tab.
Tips for Learning Songs from Guitar Tab
This might seem straight forward but I have met many beginner guitar players who don’t think of this basic technique.
When learning a new song it’s important to break the song down into parts.
If a tab for a song has the verse, bridge and chorus separated into different sections start with the verse chords/notes first. Learning a song in parts, first slowly, then adding speed next and finally piecing all the parts together makes it far more manageable then trying to just play through the entire song first time.
If you’re a complete beginner and as of yet haven’t learned your basic guitar chords I’d suggest getting a good guitar lesson dvd or Learn Guitar Dvd to help you along the way. Some of these programs can rival private lessons for quality as long as you find a good teacher who has taken the time to create a great product. Ensuring you buy a good dvd will ensure there are no gaps in your learning later on.
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