im getting a new guitar. ive never had a chance to learn it, my old guitar was in the prime of its life when it was broken; my sister slammed the door on it :'( annyway, im still a newb when it comes to playing. i want to use tabs with my new one (when i get it in the mail) and im not really sure how they work. any tips would be much appreciated. love you guys!
ahhh man expaining tabs over the net is gonna be hard. the 6 lines are ur guitar strings, the top line is high e string and the bottom line is low e string and everything in middle. the numbers are the frets. if you have a number 3 on the bottom line that means 3rd fret, low e. and so on. 0's are open strings so just play the string with no frets down etc. all the little funky bits i would just ignore while ur learning. like h's /\ etc. sorry its not better explained but it is tricky to explain. but the easiest way to learn once u get the hang of it
tabs are a good way to learn how to play your favorite songs...but i remember when i first started playing, i found it very hard to remember everything i learned from tabs... after you get the hang of playing comfortable, i would say screw tabs and just create and experiment with making your own music....it will make you better, learn faster, create more original music, and you may actually remember how a song goes since it came from your brain... but yeah tabs should always give you the tuning first, as each letter represents a string....and ofcourse you would read tabs from left to right.... so: E------------ B----------- G----------- D--------- A---------- E---------- that would be standard tuning, as the "low" E or, lowest sounding/thickest string on your guitar is represented at the very bottom of the tab...while the "high" E, or thin, and high pitched string is corresponded at the very top of the tab.. and then the numbers just represent which fret you need to press down on and when.. E-----------3-- B-------------- G---------3---- D-----3-------- A-------------- E---0--------- the order of the numbers just tells you the order to press down on the frets...so for the example above, you would start by playing an open E, and play the next two notes, and then finish with the fourth note, or the 3rd fret on the "high" E string... each number represents a note.... so when you see two numbers in the same part, like: E B G----5 D----5 A E you would obviously play those two notes at the same time... and the letters and weird symbols just represent bends, and hammers, and stuff like that...its actually pretty easy once you get the hang of it... happy hunting!
Just remember tabs are very inefficient at telling you exactly when you need to play something, and more importantly "how" to play something. (How is pretty much when...depends on how many beats per measure.)
