How to read Tablature Guitar

How to read Tablature Guitar.
firts you must know to read the note is about Tablature..
why must know Tablature?
Tablature is very easy to read, more simple ,and i think all guitarist love it
He..he..he..(ganjar)


How to read Tablature Guitar. Tablature is method of writing music played on the guitar without using musical notation. It is very easy to read and is ideal for use on the internet. Tablature (tab for short) is written using six line.
each line represents a string on the guitar. On the neck of the guitar are ridges called frets. The spaces between the frets are numbered, starting at the headstock with 1, the neck fret is 2, the neck fret is 3,..ect.
A staff is made up of five line and four spaces
Pitches are named after the first seven letters of alphabet (E,F,G,A,B,C,D,e').
A cleft is a musical symbol placed at the beginning of the staff that determines the letter names of lines and spaces


How to read Tablature Guitar
If we wanted to play the 3rd fret on the B string (D) we would tab it like this :
E||----------------||
B||--3-------------||
G||----------------||
D||----------------||
A||----------------||
E||----------------||

That's how a single note is tabbed, if we want to tab a chord, it would like this. All the notes would be played at the same time.
E||--0-------------||
B||--2-------------||
G||--2-------------||
D||--2-------------||
A||--0-------------||
E||----------------||

You will notice that the diagram is upside down in relation to the guitar neck. The top string in the diagram is actually the bottom string on your guitar. Once your understand this, tab is a piece of cake. Now you know how to play a single note or a chord using tab. You may also see symbol next to the notes or chord. These symbol indicate how to play them.
Guitar tab consists of a series of horizontal lines forming a staff (or stave) similar to standard notation. Each line represents one of the instrument's strings therefore standard guitar tab has a six-line staff and bass guitar tab has four lines. The top line of the tablature represents the highest pitched string of the guitar. By writing tablature with the lowest pitched notes on the bottom line and the highest pitched notes on the top line of the tablature follows the same basic structure and layout of Western Standard Notation.
The following examples are labeled with letters on the left denoting the string names, with a lower-case "e" for the high E string. Tab lines may be numbered 1-6 instead, representing standard string numbering, where "1" is the high E string, "2" is the B string etc.
The numbers that are written on the lines represent the fret used to obtain the desired pitch. For example, the number 3 written on the top line of the staff indicates that the player should press down at the third fret on the high E (first string). Number 0 denotes the nut - that is, an open string.
For chords, a letter above or below the tab staff denotes the root note of the chord.

Examples of guitar tab notation:

The chords E, F, and G:

e|---0---1---3---
B|---0---1---0---
G|---1---2---0---
D|---2---3---0---
A|---2---3---2---
E|---0---1---3---
....E...F....G

Various lines, arrows and other symbols are used to denote bends, hammer-ons, trills, Pull-offs, slides, and so on.
Guitar tab is not standardized and different sheet music publishers adopt different conventions. Songbooks and guitar magazines usually include a legend setting out the convention in use.
The most common form of lute tablature uses the same concept but differs in the details (e.g. it uses letters rather than numbers for frets).(guitarbasiclesson.com)

You see that..!!! How to read Tablature Guitar this is very simple and easy but this is very help full for us
let work guy.........!!!


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