Sunday, February 17, 2013

READING GUITAR TAB

Notating chords in tab:

I have heard from some people that they can't read tab and so I'd like to give an easy explanation, because if I have unusual chords here, I will indicate them in tab form.

So the easiest way to explain it, is to use a chord everybody knows.  Lets use D.

You have 6 strings on your guitar.  Tab notations begin with the lowest string.  If you were to stand your guitar up, and look at where your fingers are placed to make a D chord,  Starting with the lowest string, there is no finger there so it's a 0.  No finger on the next string, so 0.  No finger on the next, so again, 0.
Then on the next string you have a finger on the 2nd fret, so 2.  The string over, finger on 3rd fret equals a 3, and on the highest string, finger on the 2nd fret equals a 2.  So D, written in tab is 000232.    Honestly, this is just SO much easier than making little graphs with dots, which are very hard to type.

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