Guitar tabs lesson (learn to play guitar tabs)
hello! friends today we'll talk about "how to read Guitar tabs", may be you are thinking it's tough, but once you go through this lession on "how to read Guitar tabs" the things will go much easier. You just need to do
is practice, practice and practice!!!! and within a month of dedicaded practice,You'll start Rocking with Guitar Tabs.
Lets start Guitar tabs lesson :)
First we will start with basic structure of tab ;)
e|--------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------|
Above picture shows the basic structure of Tab.
Here, you can see 6 lines denoted with words E,A,D,G,B,e.These words just represents your Guitar strings.
e- small'e' represents 1st string on your Guitar
B- it represent 2nd string on your guitar
G- it represents 3rd string on your Guitar
D- it represents 4th string on your Guitar
A- it represents 5th string on your Guitar
E- it represents 6th string on your Guitar
Before moving on to the chord formation, we must need to know about fret numbering.
As, we know most of the Guitars have 18, 21 and 24 frets.In tabulation numbers written
on it,represents the fret number.
For example, if it was written '0' you need to play open string
and if it was written '1' you need to press the string on 1st fret and hit on it.
Let us move towards the Chords formation.
Major Chord- A
e|----------|1 (you wont see
B|--2-------|2 these numbers
G|--2-------|3 I have write it down
D|--2-------|4 just to make you understand)
A|----------|5
E|----------|6
To play the chord Major 'A',
First you need to press the 2nd fret on 'B' string or 2nd string.
Now, press the 2nd fret on 'G' string or 3rd string.
After, that you need to press down the 2nd fret on 'D' string or 4th string.
In above chord, all numbers are in a vertically straight line, that means you have to play all three notes together.
Below, we have tabs for other chords too. Just give a try.
If, you find any difficulties in playing thsese chords please do comments, I wont mind at all ;).
e|---2------|
B|---4------|
G|---4------|
D|---4------|
A|----------|
E|----------|
Major-B
e|----0-----|
B|----1-----|
G|----0-----|
D|----2-----|
A|----3-----|
E|----------|
Major-C
e|----2-----|
B|----3-----|
G|----2-----|
D|----0-----|
A|----------|
E|----------|
Major-D
e|----0-----|
B|----0-----|
G|----1-----|
D|----2-----|
A|----2-----|
E|----0-----|
Major-E
e|----1-----|
B|----1-----|
G|----2-----|
D|----3-----|
A|----3-----|
E|----1-----|
Major-F
e|----3-----|
B|----3-----|
G|----4-----|
D|----5-----|
A|----5-----|
E|----3-----|
Major-G
