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Acoustic Guitar Tabs: A Different Kind of Reading and Playing Music
Eryn Langers
http://www.LearnTheBest.Info/about/acoustic-guitars
Guitar music has its own musical notation. It doesn't use the standard musical notation used by other musicians. The musical notation for guitars doesn't involve notes, staffs, key signatures, time signatures and ledger lines. Instead, guitar music uses what is called a "tab", which is actually a very simple and operational musical notation. Acoustic guitar tabs are simple such that you don't really need to learn how to read music in order to play the guitar.
An acoustic guitar tab (short for tablature) is a musical notation that is actually a diagram of guitar strings. The lines in a guitar tab represent strings. The string at the top represents the first string on the acoustic guitar while the string at the bottom represents the sixth string. A guitar tab also has numbers on the lines, and these numbers represent the fret on the guitar. A zero means it's an open string while an X means a muffled string.
If you're not sure what a fret is, it's the area between the any two metal bars on an acoustic guitar's neck or fingerboard. A guitar typically has 21 to 24 frets. You'll also see dots on the frets; these dots are simply visual guides that let you know where your fingers are on the neck or fingerboard.
If a tab has all the numbers come one after the other, all on one line, this means that hat the numbers are an indication as to which fret you should use on that string, then you pluck just that string. The numbers that are noted one after the other means that you play the notes one at a time. If an acoustic guitar tab has a number on every line and the numbers are all on top of the other, this means that you should play all the notes simultaneously -- you have to strum all the six strings on your acoustic guitar.
When you're learning how to read acoustic guitar tabs, you'll come across things like hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and slides. The notation for a hammer-on on a tab is "h" (e.g., 7h9 on a line). The notation for a pull-off on a tab is "p" while a bend is notated by a "b" and a slide by a "/" (a dash) on a tab.
When you have the basic idea of how to read guitar tabs, get online and search for easy acoustic guitar tabs. Find a simple song you know and try to play it on your guitar. Keep in mind that reading and playing the guitar using tabs takes a while to get used to, but you'll be able to pick it up when you get the hang of reading tabs.
When you're trying to learn how to play a song on your guitar, it helps if you can hear it play. This makes it a lot easier and faster to learn. When you listen to a song as you try to learn how to play it on your guitar, you'll pick up on rhythm and a lot of other details that would help you play the song much better.
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Article submitted Monday, April 14, 2008
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