Matthew iovane - What is Guitar Tab?

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Matthew iovane — One of the things that makes learning the guitar so simple is the ease in which music can be written down and understood by a complete novice with no other musical experience. This form of musical notation is known as Guitar Tab.
Guitar Tab is short for guitar tablature. You will find hundreds if not thousands of resources online containing any tabs you could possibly wish to find. Music stores are packed with tab books containing songs from your favourite bands or artists right through to instructional books teaching you how to take your guitar playing to the next level.
Matthew iovane — Understanding how to read guitar tablature is extremely simple. The only difficult part about it is training your fingers to play what you read! This can be one of the hardest aspects for a new guitarist to get their head around as fingers are not used to moving in this odd way. Keep persisting with it and soon your fingers will be doing what they are told!
Guitar tab is written in a similar way to conventional musical notation. It contains horizontal lines that run from left to right. We read the tab just like it were a book going from left to right then moving to the next line.
Matthew iovane — There are six horizontal lines running left to right. Very simply these relate to the six strings of the guitar. The lowest line representing the thickest string on the guitar and the highest line represents the thinnest string.
Written onto the horizontal lines are number. These numbers represent the fret that you should rest your finger onto the relevant string of your guitar. When there is more than one number above or below the other then you play both of the given notes at the same time.
Matthew iovane — The guitarist is offered many different techniques to use when playing the guitar to get different sounds. Hammer-ons, pull-offers, vibrato, bends etc. There seems no hard and fast rule as to how guitar tab illustrates these techniques. It seems up to the writer to decide but generally little curved bridges join the notes as well as the letter for which the technique relates to. For example you could expect to see a p for a pull off. Usually at the start of any online tab, or back of any guitar tab book there will be a legend illustrating what technique each symbol relates to.

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