How to Read Guitar Tabs
Tablature = Tab
Learning how to read guitar tabs is an important process in your guitar life. Tablature (tab) has been around since the 1300's. Coupled with chord charts, tab is the most popular way to learn songs.
The guitar as we know it today has only been around for a little over 200 years, so early tab wasn't for guitar, but rather the lute & vihuela.
Tab is an alternative to music notation. Typically, if you want to learn to play songs, you will need to know how to read tab - as many songs are formatted in tablature (tab).
You can check online legends (the key), for specific symbols used for a particular source. You'll find the basics on this page.
Tablature is often called 'Tab.' Tab will be used quite a bit on I Love Guitar.
And there's more to learning to read guitar tabs. Next, are slurs.
Slurs are using the fretting hand to articulate (set in motion) tones...read the boxes below for order of technical application.
And a few more basics things to learn to read guitar tabs...
These are the basics of tab. Please consult magazine legends (keys, as to a map) or online legends to describe the particular symbols you may see in a source (magazine, website, etc.).
