Topic: how to read guiter tabs..
<font size="7"><font color="darkblue"><font face="Courier">ei guyz! please teach me how to read guitar tabs.. <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_sad.gif" border=0 alt="Sad"> </font></font></font>
Re: how to read guiter tabs..
guitar tab is a pictorial representation of the guitar strings with the highest E string at the top
Going from left to right, top to bottom, the numbers on each string tell you which fret to play on which string. when more than one number is shown on an adjacent string at the same time, play those two notes simultaneously.
Other notation exists with tab, but if you start with this basic instruction, you can ask questions when you come across more difficult pieces.
Start with this easy example:
<a href="http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.guitartabs.cc/fetchfile.php?fileid=9807159" target="_blank"> http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.g … c/fetchfil e.php?fileid=9807159</a>
ps. Tab is a bit of a poor format since it doesn't tell you how long to play each note, I'd recommend that you learn to read music
Re: how to read guiter tabs..
Right now I'm struggling with learning standard music, but I did find a book at Barnes and Noble that was on sale, and with a giftcard I got for graduation it only cost me 4 dollars. It's called simply "Play Guitar" with a subnote "A Practical Guide to Playing Rock, Folk, and Classical Guitar". It gives you all sorts of exercises to help your build your guitar skills, and it starts off with simple tablature format, but above the tabs it gives you standard music notes, and slowly builds upon the notes that are already there, introducing half-measure notes, quarter-measure notes, breaks, repeats, et cetera. It's a pretty neat book.