Learning how to read the Tablature sheet

[Marc R]

I feel you…..getting better at it but hard. Hang in there

[Loraine]

What you are basically asking for is what is covered under the Fretboard Wizard course. It actually teaches you all about the system of the frat board along with the individual notes and what makes up a chord (minimum 3 individual notes make a chord). It teaches the shapes of chords, and Teaches you how to find the same cord up and down the front board with simply the shape of the cord being different as you go up and down it. If you really want to learn about the make up of the fret board, the strings, the chords individual notes that’s the course to take.It talks about The system of scales what they’re made of all the different major and minor scales. It does cost extra but you own the course for lifetime meaning that even if you leave TAC and don’t renew you still own that court and you can come back to the site anytime and you can take it over and over and over and many people take it annually. You only pay for it one time, though.

They have wall charts that you can purchase that give you the main chords and fingering on the strings that is an easy reference to look up at when you’re playing something. I think that it’s important to learn to read the tabs to see the individual notes that make up that chord. That’s what you’re seeing when you see the cluster of notes under the written chord that you’re playing. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the piano. It’s the same exact notes and keys that you play on a piano. But, To understand what those individual notes are, you need to know the individual notes on each string based on what fret you are playing on a particular string.

[jorgemac]

Longbrew, there are plenty of online articles regarding learning to read the TABs.

[SoCal_Ian]

Here’s a video from Tony P on that very topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2lJjaDDD0k

Don’t like that one? Here’s a few more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQC3JsbgaTw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FofCWizp43Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb4ajV0C1BE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QefpS2OSZwI

Reading TAB is SOOO much easier than reading actual sheet music even though there are limitations like no time signature and no indication of how long to hold any particular notes. Still, it’s the thing that propelled my guitar journey forward super fast as it opened up a whole world of songs I knew but I can’t read sheet music to save my life (OK, maybe in that one case).

Have fun!

[Lon B]

Thank you for the response.