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Lesson 3: Reading Tabs Trying to learn the notes and reading music can be pretty over whelming, so lets take it one step at a time. Starting with the first five frets, and taking it one string at a time! But first we'll take a look at some musical diagrams:
You'll notice in each of our examples we have a standard music notation line, and a TAB line, for your convenience. TAB is extremely easy to understand, notation.. not so much. The first thing to know about TAB is that you can't read it, without knowing what the music sounds like first. It is a huge favourite among guitar players on the internet though. You know there is a great chord progression to a song you've got on your ipod, then you go out, search up a tab and there you go, you've got the chord names, and usually the exact position the tabber is using.
Tab goes like this, there are six lines, representing the six strings, the top string, aka. the one that the 5 is on on the diagram above, is the high e string. The fat E string, is shown by the 0 in the diagram above. Then the 1 corresponds with the A string, the 2 with the D string, the 3 with the G string, and the 4 with the B string. The number on the line represents the fret you press down. You have to choose which finger to hit that note with. So the example above, on the fat E string, you would play it without pressing a fret. When you play a string without pressing it too a fret it's called playing it "open." The A string with the first fret pressed, and the D string with the second fret pressed etc. When multiple numbers are found on top of one another you have to play all those notes at once. Thats called a chord, and we'll get to some basic chords in the next lesson.
Try this song:
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