How to Read Guitar Tabs - Guitar Music By Ryan R Huber

Knowing how to read guitar tabs is very important when learning how to play the guitar. Especially since many of the guitar music that you will find online, is written in tablature. Lets say your heard a song that you really want to learn how to play on the guitar, when you search for the music on that song, especially free music, it is written in tabs.

What are Guitar Tabs?
Guitar Tabs or tablature is a notation system that illustrates the strings on a guitar.

How to read guitar tabs?
It is quite simple to read guitar tablature. There are 6 lines, those 6 lines are the guitar strings. The top line is the High E string (or 1st string, skinny string, however else you want to recognize it) and the bottom line is the Low E string ( or 6th string, thick string, however else you want to recognize it). The numbers indicate the fret your finger goes on on that string. A 0 (zero) means open string, string played but no fingers need), a 1 means the 1st fret and a 2 means the 2nd fret and so on.

Example: If the top line has a 3 on it. You play the skinny E string at the 3 fret.

Are Guitar tabs reliable?
A common question asked by many beginners is if guitar tablature is reliable? The simple answer is yes they are, but and yes there is a but, guitar tablature is not as reliable as reading music. Tabs only tell you what to play, they do not however tell you how to play it, like music does. It is important to learn how to read guitar tablature, but it is strongly encouraged by nearly all musicians and teachers to learn how to read music too.

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