Jolz
06-29-2013, 03:24 PM
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A Beginners Guide To Guitar Tabs
I will post some advanced guides in the future to cover more parts of guitar tabs.
I will also post guides covering different parts of playing guitar and writing songs
as well as make some videos to help but for now, let's start with the key basics.
Part 1, Understanding Tabs.
Guitar tabs are numbers placed on graphical lines.
With these, guitar tabs shows you where to to place your fingers on the correct string and fret in order to play the song you are learning.
e--------------------------------
B--------------------------------
G--------------------------------
D--------------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
The diagram above is how a guitar tab is show. The six lines represent the six string on a guitar.
The way you need to look at them to translate them to a guitar is bottom to top.
The “E” string being your thickest string and the “e” string being your thinnest.
When a song is shown in tab form or “tabbed” it will look like this
e--------2-----------------------
B------3---3---------------------
G----2-------2-------------------
D--0-----------0-----------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
So, when looking this diagram, you read from left to right.
Because the numbers follow one another you play them individually.
On the D string, you will pick the string without touching the fret board as a “0” is shown there for, no fret is played.
After you pick the D you then pick the next string, the G string, whilst pushing that string down on the second fret.
Do the same for the B string with the 3rd fret and so on.
If you see a guitar tab such as the one below
e--2-----------------------------
B--3-----------------------------
G--2-----------------------------
D--0-----------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
Since the numbers all above one another, this means you strum (play) them all at once.
And if you are wondering, this is the of D major chord, which is an “Open Chord.”
Open chords are named after the fact they have open string within them.
The diagram below is still a D chord but as what is normally known as, a “Power Chord.”
e--------------------------------
B--------------------------------
G--7-----------------------------
D--7-----------------------------
A--5-----------------------------
E--------------------------------
The power chord is played primarily on the electric guitar as only being played on 3 (sometimes 2) strings, it gives a more tighter and crisp sound when played though a guitar amp with overdrive/distortion (that rock guitar sound). If an open chord is played with distortion, the sound tends to be fuzzy and is played with a lean sound, very low distortion or acoustic.
That's part 1 done with. I will post more when I get chance to write more.
Have fun playing :)
A Beginners Guide To Guitar Tabs
I will post some advanced guides in the future to cover more parts of guitar tabs.
I will also post guides covering different parts of playing guitar and writing songs
as well as make some videos to help but for now, let's start with the key basics.
Part 1, Understanding Tabs.
Guitar tabs are numbers placed on graphical lines.
With these, guitar tabs shows you where to to place your fingers on the correct string and fret in order to play the song you are learning.
e--------------------------------
B--------------------------------
G--------------------------------
D--------------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
The diagram above is how a guitar tab is show. The six lines represent the six string on a guitar.
The way you need to look at them to translate them to a guitar is bottom to top.
The “E” string being your thickest string and the “e” string being your thinnest.
When a song is shown in tab form or “tabbed” it will look like this
e--------2-----------------------
B------3---3---------------------
G----2-------2-------------------
D--0-----------0-----------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
So, when looking this diagram, you read from left to right.
Because the numbers follow one another you play them individually.
On the D string, you will pick the string without touching the fret board as a “0” is shown there for, no fret is played.
After you pick the D you then pick the next string, the G string, whilst pushing that string down on the second fret.
Do the same for the B string with the 3rd fret and so on.
If you see a guitar tab such as the one below
e--2-----------------------------
B--3-----------------------------
G--2-----------------------------
D--0-----------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
Since the numbers all above one another, this means you strum (play) them all at once.
And if you are wondering, this is the of D major chord, which is an “Open Chord.”
Open chords are named after the fact they have open string within them.
The diagram below is still a D chord but as what is normally known as, a “Power Chord.”
e--------------------------------
B--------------------------------
G--7-----------------------------
D--7-----------------------------
A--5-----------------------------
E--------------------------------
The power chord is played primarily on the electric guitar as only being played on 3 (sometimes 2) strings, it gives a more tighter and crisp sound when played though a guitar amp with overdrive/distortion (that rock guitar sound). If an open chord is played with distortion, the sound tends to be fuzzy and is played with a lean sound, very low distortion or acoustic.
That's part 1 done with. I will post more when I get chance to write more.
Have fun playing :)