Guitar Tablature for Beginners

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BRYAN BILLHIMER: Hi. I'm Bryan Billhimer and on behalf of Expert Village, welcome to guitar playing 101, the basics. So, now we're going to talk about how to read guitar tablature. Guitar tablature is a way to read music for guitar and it starts with six lines. Each line represents a string on the guitar. The bottom line represents your low E string. The second line is A, D, G, B and high E for your last line. Now, after you have your lines, what you're going to see is numbers on the lines, so it might have a 3 and then a 5, 2, 3, 5, 2, 4, 5. So, the numbers represent the frets and you read it from left to right. So, a three on the low E string means you would play the third fret on the low E string. Then you play the fifth fret on the low E string. Then move up to the A string and you play the second fret on the A string, then the third fret, then the fifth fret and then the D string, the second fret, the fourth fret and the fifth fret.

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