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Home Articles How To Read Guitar TAB

How To Read Guitar TAB

October 21, 2013 By jeanw 3 Comments

Once you know how it works, reading guitar tab is very easy. I recently got a phone call from a gentleman who mentioned on the phone that he did not know how to read guitar tablature. This post is for people who do not know how to read guitar tablature. I’ve put together a short video with several exercises that should help you feel very comfortable with reading guitar tab.

Here are the five exercises:   

Exercise 1. Each line of the guitar tab represents a string. Here is both the musical notation and guitar tablature of the open 6 strings of the guitar. The bottom line represents the lowest sounding string… the 6th string.

Ex1

Exercise 2: This is a sample of playing notes as in a scale.

Ex2

Exercise 3: This is a guitar chord. When every note is on a different string, it might be a chord.

Ex3

Exercise 4: This is a sample of playing two notes at the same time.

Ex4

Exercise 5: Here is an example of playing three or more notes at a time.

Ex5

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Comments

  1. Liz Au says

    October 28, 2013 at 10:13 pm

    Thanks, Jean! I’m a slow learner. But I do want to learn to pick out songs.
    Liz

    Reply
  2. Dennis Coop says

    October 30, 2013 at 4:43 pm

    Thanks, Jean.

    I do not use tab much in my playing or teaching, but several of the students in my free classes at church are quite interested in it. I’ll be sharing your excellent demonstration with them. Thanks again for your good work.

    Dennis Coop

    Reply
    • admin says

      October 30, 2013 at 5:07 pm

      Thanks Dennis. I hope it’s helpful. I used to play the Renaissance Lute and everything was written in a tablature format so it was very useful to know.

      Reply

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