Free Guitar Tablature

On the internet, you can find guitar notation for almost any song that you want to learn. Tablature is easier to learn than traditional music notation because it relates directly to the fret board of the guitar, indicating where your fingers should be placed. Although it is an easier method to learn it still has its weak points, the main one being that you can't easily indicate rhythm on tablature. This means that when you learn a song you have to learn the strum from the song itself.


The following diagram shows you how tablature relates to the guitar fret board:





We use numbers to indicate the string and
the fret position that you are supposed to play. Each fret is numbered,
starting at the nut of the guitar at O and moving upwards towards
the bridge of the guitar. The following diagrams demonstrate this
principle.





The 3 on the above tablature score (Tab.
diagram 1) indicates to you that you place a finger on the third
fret of the sixth string. It is the note G.





Diagram here.The 1 on the tablature score
(Tab. diagram 2) on the last page indicates to you that you place
a finger on the first fret of the third string. It is the note C.





The O on the above tablature score (Tab.
diagram 3) indicates to you that the third string is to be played
open. This means that you don’t need to place a finger on
it. It is the note G.


Chords and Tablature


Chords are indicated by a set of numbers that
tell you which frets need to be played and which don’t. The
following diagram demonstrates how an open A major chord is constructed
with tablature.





The first and fifth strings are played open
whilst the second, third and forth strings

That's right, you don't have to be able to read sheet music to compose your own tunes. Whether you have the desire to be a serious music composer or just want to note down in guitar tablature form the little tunes that newbie guitar players often come up with, it's not difficult to learn how to make your own tabs. Read the complete article at How To Make Your Own Guitar Tabs

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Learning to sight read music in notation form can be beneficial when learned and applied in the proper perspective. However, sight reading can often be confined by the very structure that defines it. First, sight reading is inherently visual. Music is an auditory form of expression and communication - it is inherently sound meant to be heard and not seen. Second, traditional sight reading places emphasis on very strict timing. Timing is closely related with the "feel" of the music. Strict timing leads to the "stiffness" that often plagues the musical styles closely related with sight training.

In addition, if the musician depends too heavily on a theoretical approach for reading and writing music, the music often turns into a "paint by numbers" music with many rules, boundaries, and "supposed to's", either implied or recommended. The methods may give the illusion of an original piece of music, but underneath it all there is always a pre-meditated or pre-determined structure.

However, in light of all that has been said, and to repeat what was mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, in no way is one method of training better or worse than another, only one characteristic of the guitar player or musician. I just prefer music that isn't stiff, enough said...

Ear training - a method for creating and writing music "with the ears only", is very different from any visual form of training and often very elusive and difficult to grasp for beginning and "experienced" guitarists alike. This is largely due to the lack of material on formal ear training and also due to the more accepted traditional sight training methods for learning to read and write music.

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Learning guitar tabs is easy. One main idea needs to be remembered, the rest follows. To show you the simplicity of learning guitar tabs I will take you through learning a simple piece of music called Peter Gunn.

Beginner guitar players recognize tabs as the easiest way to begin playing music as soon as possible. That is quite correct but there is more to guitar tablature than just reading. If you look at a piece of guitar tab and you don't know what it means it is a bit offputting, but the one idea to keep in your head is tab really is just a picture of the guitar. Look at it in your mind's eye. The tuners of the guitar are on your left, the body of the guitar is to your right. The first string which is the thinnest string is on the top end and the biggest string is at the bottom.

Notice the numbers and letters on the guitar tab. The letters that run down the left hand side are the notes that sound when you play the strings, the numbers that go along the strings are fret numbers. You probably already know that the frets are the metal strips on the guitar's neck. To play notes you place your fingers a little bit behind the frets to change the length of the string so that when picked or strummed the sound is high or low according to how far up the fretboard you are. So the number one for example, shows you that one of your fingers must be behind the first fret of the guitar. This is the fret that is nearest the tuning gear at the end of the guitar's neck. Now let's look at a piece of guitar tab. The music you see is part of the theme for a TV series called Peter Gunn which was written by Henry Mancini. You will see it in the Blues Brothers movie and it has been recorded by Jimi Hendrix, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Duane Eddy.

All the notes are played on the bottom E string - the biggest string. The notes are E E F# E G E A G# played as one bar in 4/4 time.

e--------------------------

B--------------------------

G--------------------------

D--------------------------

A--------------------------

E--0--0--2--0--3--0--5--4--

To play the notes just use downstrokes with your plectrum or your thumb. After you have played through the notes once, go back and play again from the start. If you have played the Peter Gunn theme through a couple of times, now you know that it is easy to read and play guitar tabs. Now you can go and learn your favorite songs. Practically every song you have ever heard of has been written in tab form and is available for you to download from the internet for free.