Tabs

[Dora]

Can some one help me!
I need to know how tabs work, and how to read them.

Are they regular guitar chords?

[Mr B]

tabs work on the basis of the 6 strings of the guitar:


so the lines are like this:

high e string -------top line-------
b string -------next line------
g string ----------------------
d string ----------------------
a string ----------------------
e string ----------------------


the numbers you see on tabs indicate the note played and at what fret to play it

ie.


--------1---------
------------------
------------------
------------------
------------------
------------------

means play the high e string at the 1 st fret

see, it's easy

a 0 means it's an open string, chords are like this:


--3----------
--3----------
--0----------
--0----------
--2----------
--3----------

for a G chord, they're all on top of eachother cos your meant to play them all at once

hope this helps.

[Dora]

Originally posted by Mr B
tabs work on the basis of the 6 strings of the guitar:


so the lines are like this:

high e string -------top line-------
b string -------next line------
g string ----------------------
d string ----------------------
a string ----------------------
e string ----------------------


the numbers you see on tabs indicate the note played and at what fret to play it

ie.


--------1---------
------------------
------------------
------------------
------------------
------------------

means play the high e string at the 1 st fret

see, it's easy

a 0 means it's an open string, chords are like this:


--3----------
--3----------
--0----------
--0----------
--2----------
--3----------

for a G chord, they're all on top of eachother cos your meant to play them all at once

hope this helps.

Thank you so much, I have been playing guitar for about a year only using chords and I finaly get to use tabs...I cannot wait to try thanx again...Love ya!
Dora

[guitartabbooks]

Once your ready to learn some songs try Donny Bravos for tabs.
http://www.donnybravos.com :cool:

[lewiskei]

Some other tab sites to look at:-

http://www.tabrobot.com - No tabs on the site but searches other tab sites. Thousands and thousands of tabs

http://www.bandtabs.com - Albums by many artists tabbed out

Happy hunting

[fizz]

Yep Im a fan of www.bandtabs.com :)

[lewiskei]

www.donnybravos.com.

Not heard of that one before. Just had a quick look and it looks good :D I'll have to remember that one in the future, thanks.

[discoglen]

i always use www.guitartabs.cc thet just seem to have everything