Most guitar music is written in what is known as
tablature or tab for short. Guitar tabs are used rather than regular music
notation because they're easier to understand and therefore make learning
songs a lot more simple. Tab is especially useful as there is a lot of free
tab music on the web so there are a lot of tab resources available to you.
Guitar tab is made up
of 6 horizontal lines. These lines represent the 6 strings of the guitar.
A note in tab is shown by
a number. The number represents the fret the note is played at and the line
represents the string that the note is played on. Below is an example of 2
notes in tab played one after another.
A single note in tab
How to play this:
As you can see there is a number 4
on the 3rd line down. This indicates a note played on the 3rd string at the
4th fret.
Chords in tab
When more than one number is aligned vertically then
the notes are played together as a chord.
How
to play this:
Looking at the tab above you can
see that there is a number on each line. This indicates that each string is
going to be played. So from 6th string to first string we can see the
numbers:
3 = 3rd fret
2 = 2nd fret
0 = 0th fret (string played open)
0 = 0th fret (string played open)
0 = 0th fret (string played open)
3 = 3rd fret
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Guitar tabs
