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This is a question I have been wondering about tabs.
If you see somthing like this:
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do you play the string between the 0 and two or do you skip it?
Tab isn't an exact science and I could quibble that D string should be marked X to show it's muted or skipped but if I saw this I'd be thinking the A string is played with the thumb as a root note and the G B strummed with back fingers, or it could be a pinch, thumb and fingers together like a crab claw.
I agree with Cytania
one possibilty is that you thumb the bass note and pluck two upper notes together
I would be equally happy hybrid picking - using a pick on the 5th string and plucking the upper notes with 3rd and 4th finger
if it was intended to played using a down or upstroke - there is the obvious difficulty of skipping the 4th string. you would normally end up having to mute the string by resting one of you left hand fingers gently on the string. in that case it would be marked with an X
however there may be clues in the rest of the arrangement as to how to play it
how 'bout ...
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like cytania said technically the bottom string should probably be marked with an 'x', but that means you hit those three strings at once. Whenever they line up, you hit them all. Usually if the string isn't marked with a 0, meaning open, then you assume you don't play it.
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